Cayman Nava

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

I'm not shocked hearing Tomasz is stepping down from the EF. When he first opened up his calendar to everyone, we had a chat about my thoughts and goals. I told him concretely: "You really only have one KPI, and that's getting fired in the first year." ----- Why? Power struggles. "It's now how we do things at the EF" is a phrase you hear way to fucking often. Nothing changes there. Aya never really left. Vitalik had been mostly absent the prior year, focused on whatever drove his passions (happy for him), but he was absent. The EF was in an absolute shit show. Leeches everywhere, dead products clinging to $1m budgets, and god knows what else. The EF needed reform. It needed to be shaken up - enough to wake up V and rein him back in a bit. I'd argue that's exactly what happened. A bunch of internal change that people didn't like, and now we. see him leave after one year. My litmus test hit. Nothing really changed. ---- Flip Side Tomasz has a deep background with Nethermind, Flashbots, VC, etc. - obvious COIs that were disclosed in advance (from what I've been told). But they're a lot. I know plenty of people didn't like how many COIs existed, and that probably contributed to this too. I'm sure he genuinely wants to get back to building - sitting still at a foundation isn't much fun. But I still don't buy it for a minute. He was pushing reform, and most likely got pushed out. I have immense respect for Tomasz. Sad to see him go since there aren't many grown ups with real business experience in the foundation. I just hope we get some real strong leadership in there. The flowery garden shit is exhausting.

In general, love your posts, but this is not accurate. The White House has been super constructive here. They did ask us to see if we can go figure out a deal with the banks, which we're currently working on. Actually, we've been cooking up some good ideas on how we can help the community banks specifically in this bill, since that's what this is about.....the community banks, right? More coming soon.