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Our chances of solving the AI alignment problem are heavily dependent on there being a political will to solve it — so if there's no political drive for AI regulation, we could be in a lot of trouble indeed. No, the AI alignment problem isn't solved. transformernews.ai/p/no-ai-alignm…

How an AI industry-backed lobbying group has spent half a million dollars on buying a grassroots movement. transformernews.ai/p/how-to-buy-a…

Whether the race to superintelligent AI winds up killing all of us or not, it's still nice to know that you can stay on top of every frontier AI lab in one convenient place: the weekly Transformer newsletter. Why not subscribe now, while you still can? transformernews.ai/p/what-the-fir…

“The instability of that single week in February was a preview of what it feels like when the increasing ability of AI starts to interact with markets, jobs, and governments all at once.” In our newsletter, the future's starting to freak people out. transformernews.ai/p/the-fuse-is-…

Just how much money is in play here, and where exactly is it all going to wind up? You can find out here: transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-em…

In the 14th Century, Mansa Musa would give away so much gold on his travels that it'd devalue the metal and cause economic crisis in the region. Nowadays, Anthropic employees have pledged to give away billions (and billions) to EA-aligned nonprofits. So what's going to happen?

Along with all the other pretty dramatic AI news lately, the big story you might be missing is just how much money is being spent lobbying both for and against AI regulation. Both sides claim the lead in AI’s high-stakes midterm race: transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores-n…

"We come from different organizations, different backgrounds. We have different concerns: safety, ethics, labor, democracy, art, human dignity. We’ve all arrived at the same conclusion: slow down." So what gives with this new wave of anti-AI protests? transformernews.ai/p/scream-if-yo…

Transformer's AI Campaign Finance Tracker is the ultimate tool for monitoring AI's influence on elections. Try it for yourself here: elections.transformernews.ai

And while you're here, and if you're interested on AI-related campaign financing and pro-AI Super Pacs — why not have a click around on the new (and very snazzy) AI Campaign Finance Tracker we've built? All the pivotal races, all in one convenient place. elections.transformernews.ai

The Transformer weekly newsletter is here! The big AI story has been around Anthropic, the Pentagon and the White House, but our Big Story this week is focusing on the big, big money moving around AI and campaign financing. Stay on top of all of it here: transformernews.ai/p/what-the-fir…

We plan to continuously expand and improve it, too: take a look, and let us know what other features you’d like to see. elections.transformernews.ai

In an election cycle where AI and its money are set to play a huge role, the tool is designed to quickly show you who's spending and where. It collates data on super PAC fundraising and race-by-race spending, as well as political giving from major AI companies + their employees.

Introducing the Transformer AI Campaign Finance Tracker — the ultimate tool for monitoring AI's influence on elections.

You've probably got.a lot of questions about autonomous weapons, and you likely have a lot of anxieties about them too. We've got a lot of answers, though we probably can't help with those anxieties. What you need to know about autonomous weapons: transformernews.ai/p/what-you-nee…

He's fought against regulating cryptocurrency, and now he's helping OpenAI avoid regulation too. Here's what Chris Lehane has brought to OpenAI, and how it symbolises just how much they've changed in the last few years.

He helped crush crypto's enemies, and he might be the clearest symbol there is of what OpenAI is transforming into, or even how it lost its way. On the "guerilla warrior" who taught OpenAI how to fight: transformernews.ai/p/the-guerilla…

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael called Dario Amodei “a liar [with] a God-complex”, and OpenAI have raised an ungodly $110b, which could help with building the machine God. Catch up with all the week's AI news via the God-like omniscience of our weekly update: transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-vo…

"Humans have come up with lots of creative ways to kill each other over the last few millennia. Our deadliest mass murders, however, have mostly been incidental." Concerning the nightmare scenario: just how worried should we be about AI biorisk? transformernews.ai/p/ai-biorisk-e…

"It is not hard to picture how such an administration would weaponize AI-enhanced surveillance." This is exactly how the leading AI labs could already be leading us into a technological dystopia. transformernews.ai/p/the-dod-figh…