US stalls AI, China advances
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U.S. efforts to regulate artificial intelligence stalled, critics warned, because strict limits could cede advantage to China, which was rapidly accelerating AI development and deployment.
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.
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...
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
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.
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-...
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.
Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Andrés Guadamuz, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
September 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
From 2023…
What I see when tech companies talk about the dangers of AI
September 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
From 2023…
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
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
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...
Meanwhile, in a world where we actually do law and policy, @davekarpf.bsky.social rightly explains why letting AI companies dictate the terms is the worst possible approach, which should be obvious from a century of self-regulation fails in info industries from telephony to social media.
New, at @techpolicypress.bsky.social, I discuss the problems with Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" proposal.
(TL;DR version: The better angels of the AI industry's nature are never going to prevent the AI industry's worst potential harms.)
www.techpolicy.press/who-should-p...
(TL;DR version: The better angels of the AI industry's nature are never going to prevent the AI industry's worst potential harms.)
www.techpolicy.press/who-should-p...
Who Should Pace the Frontier? Not Dario Amodei
We should take Dario Amodei’s writing just seriously enough to stop entrusting him with so much power, writes Dave Karpf.
www.techpolicy.press
September 17, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Meanwhile, in a world where we actually do law and policy, @davekarpf.bsky.social rightly explains why letting AI companies dictate the terms is the worst possible approach, which should be obvious from a century of self-regulation fails in info industries from telephony to social media.
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...
“the Federal Trade Commission could be much more aggressive in enforcing regulations and holding the industry liable for the harms caused by its products. It is a mistake to let the AI industry shape the contours of its own regulatory system…We know from history exactly how that will turn out.”
Who Should Pace the Frontier? Not Dario Amodei
We should take Dario Amodei’s writing just seriously enough to stop entrusting him with so much power, writes Dave Karpf.
techpolicy.press
September 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
“the Federal Trade Commission could be much more aggressive in enforcing regulations and holding the industry liable for the harms caused by its products. It is a mistake to let the AI industry shape the contours of its own regulatory system…We know from history exactly how that will turn out.”
by Simon Lester
I'm not in the habit of recommending Ezra Klein interviews, but this one with Matt Sheehan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the AI competition with China, was very informative.
Opinion | The ‘But China!’ Dilemma Driving the A.I. Race
Can the U.S. regulate its A.I. industry without surrendering the A.I. race to China?
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I'm not in the habit of recommending Ezra Klein interviews, but this one with Matt Sheehan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the AI competition with China, was very informative.
Reposted by Jonathan Wolff
The only way they would shut down AI is if it became self-aware but started to say things like 'net zero now' and 'stop destroying orangutan habitat'. Do you know how quickly they pull the plug if AI came out as woke 😂
September 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The only way they would shut down AI is if it became self-aware but started to say things like 'net zero now' and 'stop destroying orangutan habitat'. Do you know how quickly they pull the plug if AI came out as woke 😂
I have heard of ML having a PhD in AI from this century (well, almost.) In fact, I've developed with ML. Due diligence does indeed come down to adopting best practices established as a sector, & when it's safety critical that involves a LOT of testing. This blogpost on useful transparency might help
Adventures in NI
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I have heard of ML having a PhD in AI from this century (well, almost.) In fact, I've developed with ML. Due diligence does indeed come down to adopting best practices established as a sector, & when it's safety critical that involves a LOT of testing. This blogpost on useful transparency might help
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…
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”
I've witnessed some #AISafety propaganda lately, thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social student groups in panel contexts. People who are amazed these stories are so like the horror/"warnings" of scifi don't understand that AI is something you write, so it's not hard to replicate such tropes. 1/
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I've witnessed some #AISafety propaganda lately, thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social student groups in panel contexts. People who are amazed these stories are so like the horror/"warnings" of scifi don't understand that AI is something you write, so it's not hard to replicate such tropes. 1/