Ezana’s cynical HOT take 🔥🤨 The frontier labs’ efforts to “slow” AI is not only about safety. If intelligence becomes a commodity like electricity, frontier labs risk becoming interchangeable utilities while their customers capture much of the value. Keeping their best models to themselves would help them avoid that.  I think their goal is to create a mechanism for delaying model release without risking loss of market share to other frontier labs. Restrictions that delay public access more than internal progress would preserve an advantage for the labs (and their chosen partners). The safety concerns are legitimate. AI has real risks. However I call bullshit on safety being the whole explanation for an “AI” slowdown. Consider two commercial incentives: 1. Make it harder for Chinese competitors to catch up. Anthropic has accused Chinese labs of training competing models on Claude’s outputs (distillation). Withholding newer models limits that shortcut. If the Chinese are distilling models several generations behind what the labs use internally, Chinese model development will be significantly hampered, depending on how much those labs truly rely on distillation. 2. Compete against their own customers. Imagine buying AI for drug discovery from a lab using a model five generations ahead of yours to develop competing drugs. The lab would still need capital and industry expertise, but you would be competing against your supplier using inferior tools. I think that’s the endgame envisioned by the frontier labs. But there’s a problem.  A lab that delays model releases will lose customers to rivals that keep releasing better models. The obvious solution is for frontier labs to coordinate delays. However, such coordination violates antitrust laws.   Anthropic CEO @DarioAmodei has proposed a narrow antitrust waiver for safety discussions. Musk, Hassabis, and Altman agree. I wonder why???? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Maybe it’s because a safety exemption can easily become a route to restricting public access while the labs pursue those commercial advantages using internal models that are generations ahead of what the public has.  Am I wrong??? #AI #AIsafety @elonmusk @demishassabis @sama

In Episode 65 Dr. Dunleavy and I chat about the challenges and importance of addressing Interventional Radiology shortages in small and rural communities, like those served by Gundersen Health System. @emplifyghs @SIRspecialists @LaCrosseWI buzzsprout.com/846361/episod…

To learn more about the #CTRACT study, please visit bloodclotstudy.wustl.edu/c-t… #patientcare #bloodclots

You can visit bloodclotstudy.wustl.edu/c-t… to learn more. #patientcare #bloodclots #clinicalresearch

If you’re age 18 or older, have been diagnosed with a #bloodclot and still experience leg fatigue or swelling, you might be a fit for the #CTRACT study: bloodclotstudy.wustl.edu/c-t…

Carefully evaluating patients who are treated in #clinicalresearch studies is the best way for doctors to learn what the best treatments are for specific #medical conditions. Learn more here: bloodclotstudy.wustl.edu/c-t… #patientcare

IR’s do everything. Provide tremendous value to their practices, hospitals, and healthcare. No other procedural specialty can provide the same depth and breadth as IR. This is only half of the procedures performed by 1 IR in 1 day on 9/20; and it’s routine. @SIRspecialists #IRad

Watch @Gundersenhealth Pulmonary Embolism Response Team educate community on PE and PERT. @PERTConsortium #irad wxow.com/story/36886136/2017…

bit.ly/2kbNBfG Nivolumab for HCC combo w/ liver-directed therapy. Lots more research needed. @SIO_Central helping lead. #IRad

If the snare doesn't work, go straight to forceps. Why waste time? 2 yr old #FilterOut in under 10 minutes. #FilterFriday #irad

Pinhole in the wrist vs hysterectomy? @ThinkRadial TRUFE. @SIRspecialists @ask4UFE @FibroidsNoMore @SIRRFS @keithppereira

Inf epigast bleed, warfarin & new heart valve, radial artery access excellent option. INR 2. No wrist hematoma. #radialfirst

#OnCall Urgent embo for spontaneous rupture of a giant renal AML. #Wunderlich #syndrome. #IRad #MIIP #justcoilit @SIRRFS

The next @PERTConsortium webinar is 10 days away! Link coming soon! #vte

1977 twins: Gruentzig did 1st coronary angioplasty & Biggs Darklighter attacked the DeathStar. Coincidence? I think not. #Angio40 #StarWars

Episode 6 of Behind the Scrubs focuses on #MIIPs to treat broken bones in the back #withoutascalpel #IRad #osteoporosis #cancer

Cultivate friendship, not enmity. The Power of Making Friends with Ideological Enemies | Sean Malone fee.org/articles/making-frie… via @feeonline