The political battle over AI is only just getting started. But who reaps the benefits, and who bears the costs? Without regulation, we risk an “anything goes” situation; without strong redistributive mechanisms, AI will continue to forge new tech oligarchs. #AI #criticaltech
The European Parliament is ditching Google as its default search engine in favor of French service Qwant.
(That’s the one I use too!)
“I’m an engineer and I haven’t written a line of code in six months…Every night I have hundreds or sometimes thousands of agents that are running five, ten, twenty hours, and this is just how engineering is done now.” (Boris Cherny, Anthropic)
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An important decision. Had SpaceX been fast-tracked into the S&P500, index funds around the world would have been forced to buy in, which would have handed Elon Musk even more wealth and power.
Bernie Sanders: “I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. … It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent tax — not on the profits of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other companies, but paid with something far more valuable than that: the stock.”
“In Florida…[a] 2023 statute bars state schools from giving general education credit to classes that teach ‘identity politics’ or are based on ‘theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States.’” ❗️
“Many lawmakers are worried that the fund, set up to compensate people who claim political persecution, could award millions of dollars to some who were in the mob of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol and assaulted police on Jan. 6, 2021.” ❗️