Heath Waddingham

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to restore it "back to the way it was" before Trump started the war in Iran

Waiting to see more details, but any sort of preemptive, pre-release “vetting” of AI models by the White House could be tantamount to a de facto licensing regime, which should certainly not be done via executive orders. The Trump administration’s first order of business on AI policy when it came into office was eliminating a massive Biden admin AI executive order that over-reached in various ways. We don’t want to go down that path again. This is where Congress needs to step up with a national policy framework for AI governance that deals with both frontier model concerns as well as state patchwork regulation. We need a clear, consistent approach to AI policy that balances innovation and safety while keeping America on the cutting-edge of AI development globally. Executive orders have their place, but Congress needs to help establish a more stable framework that achieves these goals. I outlined some elements of that needed approach in recent congressional testimony mentioned below. 👉

I’m normally pretty live and let live on religious stuff but if we start letting Mormonism infect our fast food options I swear to fucking god