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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.

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There is a key takeaway from Discord’s “Please don’t be mad at us” press release: The UK, Australia, Brazil, Europe, and *multiple* US states are pressuring Discord into mandatory ID verification. Their hand is forced. In some cases like the UK and Australia, they don’t even have the options to estimate your age. They MUST get the IDs. You need to pay attention to this. There is a global concerted effort to force mandatory ID verification and deanonymize the Internet. This is all packaged under the guise of child safety or national security for moral cover, but what it really is is a complete control over all narrative and the ability to censor, deplatform, silence, and even legally or physically harm people who speak out against the powers that be. It’s important to note that this is a non-partisan issue. This affects everyone, regardless of political affiliation. Whether you want to tell edgy jokes online or whether you want to protest ICE, these laws put you in danger. This is and must remain a UNITING issue for all people. You must make your voices heard and reject the big surveillance narrative and the panopticon-ization of society. Every time a law tries to pass, you must vote against. Every time a politician tries to run on this frankly evil rhetoric, you must vocalize your objection. You must chimp out about this. If the chimp is strong enough, it slows it down. Privacy is your most important asset, especially in the age of AI and surveillance. It’s your right to speak freely, whether you want to call Trump a moron or whether you want to say secure the border. It’s important that you are protected and free to do so. Reject mandated ID verification. Use other platforms if forced, keep resisting as long as possible.

We need to stop using industry-friendly PR terms like “age verification” and call it what it is: Digital ID

Discord has ended its partnership with Persona following community pushback, according to Fortune.

Thank you to the 75 Senators who have co-sponsored my Kids Online Safety Act. Americans are demanding action, and every single member of Congress has a duty to deliver it.

I hate talking about this but it’s relevant. In 2022, I took my brother (who has epilepsy) to a 3D screening of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and he had a grand mal seizure. He was always fine seeing movies and never had light-induced seizures that I was aware of at that point. +