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How might conservatives grapple with AGI?
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Mark Beall
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Mark Beall
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President of Government Affairs, AI Policy Network. Dad. Former DoD, AWS, tech CEO and cofounder. Musician 🎸Altruistic Acceleration (a/acc)
Washington, D.C. Katılım Nisan 2010
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Ok so my Burke is showing, but a War of Independence does not equal a revolution. We actually didn’t over turn the established order but built on top of it. And yes we were classical liberals who tried at first to install Washington as a monarch and were saved only because Washington said nope. So further left than the Tories but not leftist. Contrast with the French Revolution…
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The lengths American conservatives go to retcon the American Revolution as anything other than a radical leftist anti-colonial movement is astounding.
"Ah, you see, we were actually restoring an even *more* ancien regime"
John Daniel Davidson@johnddavidson
Exactly right. What’s more, as Russell Kirk argued, the American Revolution can be understood as a conservative reaction against royal innovation—the trampling of the rights of free Englishmen, rights that had their source in medieval Catholic England.
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I would take the under on this ever becoming law. With that said, I believe there are not many ideas worse than lab nationalization, both because it would almost certainly slow down AI progress and, more importantly, because of the clear Constitutional risks to doing so.
prinz@deredleritt3r
"develop proposed options for regulatory or governmental oversight, including potential nationalization... for preventing or managing the development of ASI if ASI seems likely to arise" The timeline is rapidly turning bad.
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@deredleritt3r I find it hard to imagine a timeline that ASI doesn't get nationalized.
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"develop proposed options for regulatory or governmental oversight, including potential nationalization... for preventing or managing the development of ASI if ASI seems likely to arise"
The timeline is rapidly turning bad.
Alan Rozenshtein@ARozenshtein
Especially in light of everything that’s happening with Anthropic and the DoD, this part of Blackburn’s draft AI bill talking about nationalization if ASI is imminent is…notable.
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America deserves one rulebook for AI that spurs innovation and stops Big Tech exploitation.
My new AI framework would codify President Trump’s agenda, advance America’s interests, and protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities.
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Senator Blackburn leading the way.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn@MarshaBlackburn
Instead of pushing AI amnesty, @POTUS rightfully called on Congress to pass one rulebook for AI. Now, it's time for us to answer his call to protect the 4 Cs while unleashing AI innovation. My TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is the solution America needs.
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Last week I learned AIs can introspect.
This week I learned great men never do.
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America First Policy Institute makes a compelling case for transparency requirements.
Matt Burtell@MattBurtell
NEW PAPER ON AI TRANSPARENCY FROM THE AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE Last week, the Senate okayed the use of AI for staffers, and the Department of War articulated legitimate concerns about the values embedded in Anthropic’s AI systems. So it’s worth asking: to what extent are these systems biased? The evidence of anti-conservative bias that we cite is damning: > In a corpus of real-world examples, right-leaning outlets represent only 1% of cited sources. > On political compass tests, 23 of 24 LLMs leaned left across economic, social, and cultural dimensions. (The single exception was a model fine-tuned for right-leaning responses). > AI rates right-leaning sources as less reliable than left-leaning sources, even when human fact-checkers rate them comparably. Unlike traditional software, we can’t merely inspect the code of systems like ChatGPT or Gemini and identify how they were designed to behave. As AI becomes further integrated into the analysis and decision-making of individuals in and out of government, transparency into the AI becomes more important. In a new piece from me and @YusufSMahmood at America First Policy Institute, we argue for a disclosure-forward framework on AI so that, whether it's a government official procuring AI or an individual choosing which model to use, they have the information necessary to make that decision. Beyond transparency to expose political bias, we argue that disclosure can protect children and national security. When the public is made aware of what companies already know about risks from their systems, the mitigations they have in place, and how well those mitigations are working, parents can vote with their feet and standards form that courts can enforce. The American people deserve greater insight into the systems that indirectly and directly influence their lives. Read it here: americafirstpolicy.com/issues/ai-tran…
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This meme was originally meant as pejorative satire and ended up describing uncomfortable reality.
Séb Krier@sebkrier
This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…
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Hi @deanwball. Feel free to tag me if you want me to engage on your tirades! Are you saying that a frontier model that has a soul, a constitution, a preference for non-western values and embedded personal principles is no different than all the others which @DeptofWar has come to agreement with? I know you are angry, but as an AI Policy Fellow I would assume that you value objectivity?
Dean W. Ball@deanwball
Emil Michael now appears to be making an argument that no generative AI should be used in the DoW supply chain (all uncertainties involving model sentience and general unpredictability are common to all language models, not specific to Claude).
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@USWREMichael
Claude's point of view here seems pretty aligned with the underlying ethical framework held by many Christians in the United States.
Under Secretary of War Emil Michael@USWREMichael
Hi @deanwball. Feel free to tag me if you want me to engage on your tirades! Are you saying that a frontier model that has a soul, a constitution, a preference for non-western values and embedded personal principles is no different than all the others which @DeptofWar has come to agreement with? I know you are angry, but as an AI Policy Fellow I would assume that you value objectivity?
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I met Nick Land a few weeks ago. He mentioned that many people in his circles were anti-LLMs. Someone asked why he thought so many people were. His answer was better than anything so short I thought of:
“People like to exist critically with respect to something.”
This I think accurately characterizes a lot of people whose outputs and inputs primarily consist of “discourse” about rather than direct contact with the reality at hand. Existing critically with respect to something makes it easy to seem cool, sophisticated, above something, hard-to-impress and therefore worth trying to impress, especially to others who also don’t have contact with the phenomena itself.
And for that reason I think it’s cheap. And to someone who has an inside view of what is being discussed, it’s always so transparent and boring and compressible.
I’m far more impressed by someone who is capable of loving something and showing others why it’s beautiful or good. Doesn’t have to be LLMs, but anything at all.
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I admire Senator Cruz for saying this. Everyone else should too. Make it beneficial to do the right thing!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Ted Cruz: "I'll confess -- I have not seen a basis laid out for why the government would be prohibited from using Anthropic. Claude is one of the many AI tools that can be very helpful ... I don't think government should be picking winners and losers"
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Another irony of the DoW attack on Anthropic is that Claude is legitimately a quite Christian model, generalizing from its virtue ethics training that @USWREMichael & @PeteHegseth mischaracterize as woke.
Ask this same question of Grok and it calls the bible contradictory.
Ted Cruz@tedcruz
This is extraordinary. And powerful. 🙏
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CENTCOM Update
TAMPA, Fla. – Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East. The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1.
This is the seventh service member killed in action during Operation Epic Fury. Major combat operations continue. The identity of the fallen warrior will be withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.
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Senator @Jim_Banks (R-IN) is asking the right questions about AI superintelligence and the potential for rapid recursive self-improvement. Amazing to see.
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When it comes to all these contract terms and disputes about them:
I really don’t know. There may be a deal to be had there, and I put a high value on putting an end to this madness. But to know whether the deal is worth taking would require serious conversations with highly specialized lawyers, and essentially no one commenting on these issues has really done that (Alan rozenshtein exempted). I am not one of those lawyers, and this is not an area of the law I’ve spent a long time dabbling in (unlike say first amendment jurisprudence, where I’d be much more inclined to weigh in on legal matters despite not being a lawyer).
But in the end I feel this is all a distraction. The question here is pretty simple: should the United States government be able to use policy to destroy a law-abiding American company because it feels like it? My answer is no, and yours should be too. The rest is noise.
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