AI agreement, Washington remains split
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U.S. lawmakers and regulators in Washington focused on AI governance as major tech firms signaled rare agreement on safety, yet politicians and critics remained deeply divided.
If you're wondering why Trump is all of a sudden pushing AI and dismissing concerns about its safety as a "hoax," just look at his stock trades.
September 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If you're wondering why Trump is all of a sudden pushing AI and dismissing concerns about its safety as a "hoax," just look at his stock trades.
by Naomi Klein
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
September 17, 2026 at 10:47 PM
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
The Certainty–Scope Conjecture made simple and short (or at least simpler and shorter 🤓): AI can have guaranteed correctness or open-ended scope, but not both.
"What Generality Costs in Artificial Intelligence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"What Generality Costs in Artificial Intelligence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
September 17, 2026 at 11:50 PM
The Certainty–Scope Conjecture made simple and short (or at least simpler and shorter 🤓): AI can have guaranteed correctness or open-ended scope, but not both.
"What Generality Costs in Artificial Intelligence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"What Generality Costs in Artificial Intelligence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @law-zero.bsky.social, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests.
September 17, 2026 at 7:18 PM
As frontier models become more capable, we urgently need both societal governance and robust technical guardrails. At @law-zero.bsky.social, we are actively working on solutions to ensure AI systems remain safely aligned with human interests.
Reposted by James Grimmelmann, Margot C. Finn, Greg Linden
‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
www.wsj.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:46 PM
‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
America has an affordability crisis, an AI crisis, and an ongoing war with Iran.
Mike Johnson's solution? Send lawmakers home.
Mike Johnson's solution? Send lawmakers home.
September 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
America has an affordability crisis, an AI crisis, and an ongoing war with Iran.
Mike Johnson's solution? Send lawmakers home.
Mike Johnson's solution? Send lawmakers home.
Like all binary oppositions, the current debate between #AI enthusiasts and anti #AI opponents fails to critically question what both sides tacitly endorse and agree upon. The problem is not the #AI or even the Data Centers. The problem is the asymmetries of power under late-stage capitalism.
September 17, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Lots of fun to watch two camps of supposedly thoughtful people who agree that AI regulation is urgently needed tear each other apart for having different reasons to support their shared goal.
September 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Lots of fun to watch two camps of supposedly thoughtful people who agree that AI regulation is urgently needed tear each other apart for having different reasons to support their shared goal.
fuck those fools
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
dlvr.it
September 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
fuck those fools
Reposted by McKenzie Wark, Ann Bartow
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
September 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
Every conversation I have with an AI expert these days feels like “what great shows do you expect to see on Broadway?”, over dinner on the Titanic
September 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Every conversation I have with an AI expert these days feels like “what great shows do you expect to see on Broadway?”, over dinner on the Titanic
From 2023…
What I see when tech companies talk about the dangers of AI
September 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
From 2023…
by Grady Booch
I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering.
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
The End of Software Engineering:How AI Agents Are Fundamentally Restructuring the Software Paradigm
arxiv.org
September 17, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering.
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
So my pension advisor refused today to believe the AI bubble implosion could be bigger than the 2008 crash. I sincerely hope he's right.
September 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
So my pension advisor refused today to believe the AI bubble implosion could be bigger than the 2008 crash. I sincerely hope he's right.
Here's some of that definition argument www.wired.com/story/artifi...
Europe Is in Danger of Using the Wrong Definition of AI
Some intelligent systems are at risk of being excluded from oversight in the EU's proposed legislation. This is bad for both businesses and citizens.
www.wired.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Here's some of that definition argument www.wired.com/story/artifi...
Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing everyone. It would be fair to say that AI has now gone mainstream, and not only that, it has become a hot political subject.
www.technollama.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Devon Greyson, John R. Hutchinson
People are using AI to impersonate real science journalists.
And one even got PUBLISHED.
In Science. www.linkedin.com/posts/caroli...
And one even got PUBLISHED.
In Science. www.linkedin.com/posts/caroli...
Fake Caroline update:
The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it!
I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email…...
Fake Caroline update:
The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it!
I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email chai...
www.linkedin.com
September 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
People are using AI to impersonate real science journalists.
And one even got PUBLISHED.
In Science. www.linkedin.com/posts/caroli...
And one even got PUBLISHED.
In Science. www.linkedin.com/posts/caroli...
And my own position: tech executives could absolutely head off such industrial accidents by holding their engineers to account and insisting they comply with standard safety-critical software development processes, or even just ordinary #devops.
And governments can & should enforce this.
#systemsAI
And governments can & should enforce this.
#systemsAI
How right is Trump? The role of the executive in industrial "accidents"
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:34 PM
And my own position: tech executives could absolutely head off such industrial accidents by holding their engineers to account and insisting they comply with standard safety-critical software development processes, or even just ordinary #devops.
And governments can & should enforce this.
#systemsAI
And governments can & should enforce this.
#systemsAI
Reposted by Meredith Broussard
The oligarchs' warnings about AI are self-serving nonsense. But there are real harms from AI, as explored in the documentary "Ghost in the Machine."
New from me:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
New from me:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
Ghost in the Machine shows what we're fighting against
If you want a good summary of what I’ve written and spoken about, here and on Techtonic, over the past decade-or-so, the new documentary Ghost in the Machine...
buttondown.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The oligarchs' warnings about AI are self-serving nonsense. But there are real harms from AI, as explored in the documentary "Ghost in the Machine."
New from me:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
New from me:
buttondown.com/creativegood...
by Reid Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet
Tangentially: this is how you write AI narratives that are tractable for law and policy. It’s “three dudes build AI slop empire on purpose,“ not ”rogue AI is running news websites”
September 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Tangentially: this is how you write AI narratives that are tractable for law and policy. It’s “three dudes build AI slop empire on purpose,“ not ”rogue AI is running news websites”