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@a16zcrypto pod episode in conversation with the incredible @smc90 around art & technology released today - a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast…
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Our Chairwoman @AmyKremer was named one of the 26 most influential people shaping the future of AI by @NYMag.
From helping found the Tea Party to leading a 35-city bus tour through small-town America, Amy is building the conservative grassroots movement standing up to Big Tech.
Since March, Republican opposition to new data centers has jumped from 39% to 54%. Americans are waking up, and Humans First is in their towns, standing with them.
The grassroots are rising. #HumansFirst
Follow for more AI news.
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I am humbled by the recognition by @NYMag for the work we are doing on AI safety. There is a lot more to do, but we are ready for the challenge. We must continue to innovate, but we absolutely can do it safely.
Read more: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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We should be most critical of the things we want to be great.
Doorman fallacy boosterism is as small minded as knee jerk denial. Both loud, and irrelevant.
Demand the best tools within reach, and celebrate the human residual.
Lots of AI people made it low status to comment on shortfalls and failures of models, or the fact that they're not reallty automating jobs fully and so on. Any scrutiny means you're not 'AGI pilled' (which is not a claim about technology but sometimes a quasi-religious one about its impacts and adoption). It's a shame because it's actually very interesting to explore the spikiness, jaggedness, failures, complementarities and so on; but for a lot of people this is almost a waste of time because 'something something future models!1!!' means they get to just parrot 'this is the worst the models will ever be' whilst dismissing any crumb of empiricism away because they've already worked out the future based on theory and projections alone.
To be fair I sympathise with them to a degree because the 'other sides' aren't any better, essentially over-indexing on short-term failures (Rs in strawberry etc) and extrapolating from these to dismiss the technology completely. But I care less about what these people think about capabilities since time just proves them wrong rapidly enough. Why would you exercise vibe arbitrage over such a cheap target? I also find it painfully boring to constantly litigate 'AI skeptics' - there are more interesting and thornier discussions to be had.
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Dang!
And @logangraham it utterly unrecognizable (needs more tiedye Patagonia)
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The future of AI — and therefore the world — will be shaped by a few dozen quietly powerful engineers, founders, brokers, and policy-makers. It’s time you got to know them. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Link for non-subscribers
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AI has minted a new power structure. A handful of private companies command the might and wealth of small nation-states and are mostly left alone to self-govern. A few hundred employees are on the brink of becoming centimillionaires and considering which causes and presidential candidates they will funnel their vast resources toward.
One way to tell the story of how AI is changing our world is through some newly familiar names: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang. But an astonishing amount of power rests in the hands of a few dozen other people, some virtually anonymous.
For this year’s annual “Power” issue, we are surfacing 26 people whose influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame.
We partnered with @ReadTransformer, a publication with a command of the politics within transformative AI, whose team drew on its years of reporting, as well as new interviews with more than 50 high-ranking industry leaders, to help articulate what makes these people powerful.
The AI scene is small. Many are remarkably intertwined, sharing offices, homes, and funding. The list’s average age is 36. It is also overwhelmingly male. Read about the few dozen power brokers who will decide how AI shakes out, refashioning the world for the rest of us in the process: nymag.visitlink.me/AgEtqI
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Wrote about Coefficient Giving's CEO Alexander Berger for @NYMag's AI power issue: In the kingdom of the weird, the most normal man is king.
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New images for NY mag power issue on AI technologists using AI-VHS pipeline I’ve been working through responding to the epic revival of VHS in AI marketing
One way to tell the story of how AI is changing our world is through some newly familiar names: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang. But an astonishing amount of power rests in the hands of a few dozen other people, some virtually anonymous.
Many of these people are tasked with shaping how the public, or a company, thinks about AI. Some are reimagining how we interact with AI, such as developing models that could change our relationship to work. Others are spinning up advocacy groups with a single check.
For our annual “Power” issue, we partnered with @TransformersMag, a publication with a command of the politics within transformative AI, to surface 26 people whose influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame. We then commissioned multimedia artist @dennnnnnnnny to create images of each.
These individuals are remarkably intertwined: Many share offices, homes, and funding. The list’s average age is 36. It is overwhelmingly male. These names come from both private and public sectors, so you’ll find founders and engineers as well as lawmakers and regulators.
Most importantly, they still have everything to play for.
Read our list of the 26 power brokers who are quietly shaping the future of AI: nymag.visitlink.me/wjgAC-
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Fantastic stuff from @NYMag on our new AI overlords: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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For the past few months, @ReadTransformer has been working with the incredible team at @NYMag on this: The AI Power List.
When NY Mag first reached out about collaborating on this, I was thrilled. Everyone knows the big names in AI: Sam, Dario, Demis, Elon, Jensen and the like. But so much of the *real* power in AI is inscrutable to the wider world. It is held by people well-known to insiders, but with little-to-no public presence — despite their outsized influence on the future of humanity.
NY Mag and Transformer profiled 26 of these powerful insiders. They're the people deciding how AI is used, developed, regulated, and thought about. They're remarkably intertwined, universally fascinating, and still have everything to play for.
These new power brokers will decide how AI shakes out, refashioning the world for the rest of us in the process.
It's time to get to know them.
AI has minted a new power structure. A handful of private companies command the might and wealth of small nation-states and are mostly left alone to self-govern. A few hundred employees are on the brink of becoming centimillionaires and considering which causes and presidential candidates they will funnel their vast resources toward.
One way to tell the story of how AI is changing our world is through some newly familiar names: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang. But an astonishing amount of power rests in the hands of a few dozen other people, some virtually anonymous.
For this year’s annual “Power” issue, we are surfacing 26 people whose influence on the AI landscape far outstrips their fame.
We partnered with @ReadTransformer, a publication with a command of the politics within transformative AI, whose team drew on its years of reporting, as well as new interviews with more than 50 high-ranking industry leaders, to help articulate what makes these people powerful.
The AI scene is small. Many are remarkably intertwined, sharing offices, homes, and funding. The list’s average age is 36. It is also overwhelmingly male. Read about the few dozen power brokers who will decide how AI shakes out, refashioning the world for the rest of us in the process: nymag.visitlink.me/AgEtqI
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Read the full list, feat. incredible AI x VHS artwork from @dennnnnnnnny, here:
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Strange Rules: Live Events
🗓️ Saturday 10 October📍 Palazzo Diedo, Venice
Strange Rules is an interdisciplinary exhibition curated by @hollyherndon, @matdryhurst and @HUObrist It is built around Protocol Art, an approach that looks beyond images and objects to the invisible structures shaping how culture is made, shared and perceived in the digital age. The show brings together over 30 artists, including @yaoeo, Ayoung Kim, Agnieszka Kurant, @trevorpaglen and Ho Tzu Nyen, with new commissions by Lorenzo Senni and Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, and a new permanent work by Philippe Parreno.
This Saturday, the exhibition opens up into an afternoon and evening of live events, held with Hans Ulrich Obrist:
@vgr & @dennnnnnnnny
@newmodels_io & @deankissick
@isthisanart_
John Chowning & @hollyherndon
Hito Steyerl
The evening closes with a performance by John Chowning🙌
