🚨🚨 Socialists Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar just introduced the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.” Here’s what it would do: • Ban AI the government deems to surpass human intelligence • Pause advanced AI development • Make D.C. bureaucrats the gatekeepers and create a new Department of AI • Threaten developers with up to 20 years in prison The proposal would freeze America’s leading AI labs while China keeps building, let Washington pick winners and losers in AI development, and impose criminal penalties on developers who build systems the government deems too advanced. The test for every AI policy: does it make America stronger, safer, and richer? This bill clearly fails.

1/ How will AI commerce start? Sometimes the best way to predict the future is to observe the present. Millions of people who value their money more than their time already hunt or wait for deals. Including me:) I had an alert for Spindrift, it cleared my price, and I bought.

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Databricks' @alighodsi on AI risk and adoption: Ali isn't losing sleep over the existential risk debate. He says a number of conditions would all have to be true simultaneously to enable an actual runaway takeoff scenario, and currently several opposite conditions exist. Each frontier training run requires significantly more resources. Power, GPUs, engineers - and some attempts fail, burning up huge piles of money with them. Until that reverses, he doesn't see the self-improving loop happening. Cyber is what he's watching most closely and where he anticipates real impact. Most orgs are not equipped for the coming change in agentic capabilities. The time between a vulnerability being published and being weaponized has collapsed from years to hours. On adoption, he believes most companies don't need a smarter model. The models are already smart enough. The gap is context they don't absorb - the things an employee who's worked at a company for five years learned by osmosis. If the frontier stopped advancing today, he thinks it wouldn't meaningfully change the value most are extracting from AI anyway. In conversation with a16z's Martin Casado and Sarah Wang: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Why Ali places the AI risk near zero 05:05 The word "pacing" was a mistake 10:50 What 10k agents and $100m can do 12:20 What would change his mind on AI risk 14:20 More GPUs, more ways to fail 18:05 US export controls on PlayStations 20:10 The damage everyone expected by now 24:30 Public vulnerabilities weaponized in hours 30:15 Why labs can't grade each other 37:15 Why most of RSI isn't actually RSI 40:05 Why nobody really needs a smarter model 41:50 The AI use cases nobody argues about 47:30 Google Search solved this 25 years ago 50:55 Nobody has privileged knowledge now 55:10 Same model, new harness, 2x cost 58:15 Open source: 5% of spend, 60% of tokens 1:05:30 90% of new databases are created by agents YouTube: piped.video/GzEtpAKYRvE @databricks @martin_casado @sarahdingwang

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When elites try to convince you a new technology is a threat to YOU, it is often because it is a threat to THEM.

There is an unseen hand pushing AI safety as a political ideology. Effective Altruists believe a tiny group of technocrats should decide how much technological progress the rest of us are allowed to have…. and how many shrimp your life is worth. You are witnessing their attempted coup. thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideolo…