Anthropic’s new “advanced tool use” shows where the real action is: AI power sits in protocols like MCP, not just models -- search, programmatic tools, shared memory. www.anthropic.com/engineering/... See our previous work: “Protocols and Power” + “Read–Write–Act” below 👇

Are LLM's the best that they will ever be? A guest post on Asimov Addendum by @rufusrock.bsky.social "The technology might continue to get better, but that doesn’t mean that the user experience will. Why? Primarily because no one knows how to make LLMs profitable." Read more below👇

Just accepted in Information Economics and Policy: "Behind the Clicks: Can #Amazon allocate user attention as it pleases?" Can it? Yes it can, and that has really important regulatory implications as the authors @rufusrock.bsky.social, Ilan Strauss, @timoreilly.bsky.social

“The choice is ours: design competitive AI markets around open principles, or accept a new generation of platform monopolies,” write Tim O'Reilly, Isobel Moure, and Ilan Strauss ai-frontiers.org/articles/ope... @timoreilly.bsky.social

It’s the logic of market competition, not rogue models, that drives the risks investors and the public now need disclosed by companies, write Dr. Ilan Strauss and Tim O’Reilly. They launched the AI Disclosures Project to ensure AI markets can benefit from proper information and technical standards.

"If you access the public’s savings at scale, you should meet the public’s disclosure standards." ... seems like a good principle to minimize harmful bubbles www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...

@ilan-strauss.bsky.social will be presenting to the Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) @gohuskies.bsky.social tomorrow (Nov 18) Topic: Can Membership Inference Attacks Detect Paywalled Content in LLM Training Data? Join in! Zoom: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Time: 10-11AM (PST)

In today's Asimov Addendum: @timoreilly.bsky.social has an excellent piece on AI as a "jetplane for the mind". AI Is a Tool, Not a Worker -- like all software. As AI becomes more autonomous, it must be shaped as a jetplane, not a displacement device, Tim argues. Link below👇

"If Humans Can See It, Bots Can Steal It" In our latest Asimov Addendum post @timoreilly.bsky.social @isobelmoure, and @ilan-strauss.bsky.social look at: - AI bots pillaging the internet - How we got here: The evolving architecture of the internet under http - How we tend to get there... 1/2

I'm quite pleased that a paper I spent ages on with @timoreilly.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social was listed in the RUTGERS COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL's Bluebook 21st ed. of important articles in the field "Amazon’s Algorithmic Rents: The economics of information on Amazon" Links below

AI technologies contribute substantially to corporate performance and risk, but investors lack information. A new policy note from @ai-disclosures.bsky.social proposes bringing AI governance within the SEC's disclosure regime, modeled on 2023 cybersecurity rules. www.ssrc.org/publications...

AI is not the messiah, its a very naughty market in need of disclosure. Read our most recent Asimov Addendum // @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece for more by Co-Directors @ilan-strauss.bsky.social and @timoreilly.bsky.social We also have a new working paper on SEC Disclosures for AI Below👇

Heartily agree with this proposal to "reverse the private-by-design loophole that allows companies to remain private even as they raise huge sums of capital from hundreds of shareholders. If you access the public’s savings at scale, you should meet the public’s disclosure standards."

In our latest piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social We argue that public oversight of AI should begin with applying existing SEC disclosure frameworks. This also means rolling back 2012 JOBS Act reforms, that allowed companies to stay private for longer. www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...

New weekly roundup going in-depth on copyright after the head of the U.S. Copyright Office was seemingly fired for arguing not all AI training is protected under fair use. This + model developers’ moves towards monetization, kooky comments from Steve Bannon & more! open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

We’re back with another weekly roundup! This one covers some really shocking statistics from Cloudflare, typical OpenAI shenanigans, and more open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

Great long read today from our co-director @timoreilly.bsky.social! He goes in depth about what we mean when we talk about disclosures and how they could shape safe AI development (hint: they’re not just a notice that something was AI generated) open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

We wondered if Elon Musk’s control over Grok made it a tool for spreading misinformation. So we asked Grok itself to comment. It turns out being “maximally truth-seeking” doesn’t make it a huge fan of Musk… open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

Double feature today! Tim O’Reilly goes long on what a people are missing from the DeepSeek mania of this week, specifically their (alleged) distillation of OpenAI’s models and what this tells us about cloud providers, terms of service, and disclosures open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

New weekly roundup! Some thoughts on R1 (of course) and open source, along with new inference-time compute benefits, benchmark meddling, and more. open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

New weekly roundup including more thoughts on how infrastructure will determine the future of AI, a review of the staggering AI development in 2024, and a great one-liner Sam Altman tweet open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

New blog post on the latest US AI Taskforce Report! Co-director Ilan Strauss explores how it emphasizes the importance of international standard setting but misses the mark with regard to national security. open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

New Substack post about Anthropic’s newly unveiled analytics tool for Claude—and why it has a huge blind spot: open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

Our latest Substack post excerpts an interview of our cofounder on the architecture of participation. It’s a great conversation and covers a lot of what we’re researching. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

Welcome to the AI Disclosures Project Bluesky! Through research, policy engagement, & industry collaborations we aim to learn how AI products are managed at the corporate level and how to disclose this. Knowledge is power.