In the latest essay in our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @lujain.bsky.social, @saffron.bsky.social, @umangsbhatt.bsky.social‬, Lama Ahmad, and Markus Anderljung propose a new AI evaluation paradigm that assesses the harms that can emerge from repeated human-AI interactions.

“As AI advances, many are worried about the tech's potential to concentrate unprecedented wealth among a few, while eroding the economic value of human work for everyone else.” Here’s how @saffron.bsky.social & Sam Manning believe we can stop that from happening. #ai #wealthinequality #economy

Really proud and excited to release work on empirically measuring AI values “in the wild” — understanding, analyzing and taxonomizing what values guide model outputs in real interactions with real users. www.anthropic.com/research/val...

This piece I wrote is now in the Stanford CS ethics curriculum! honestly, the exact kind of audience i wanted, so 🥹. (Also I do actually still think this piece is ~my compass for what technology is and what it means to build it!) www.kernelmag.io/1/what-is-te...

Reviving my Substack to try to describe something that is very difficult to describe (a near death experience 20 years after it happened) saffron.substack.com/p/something-...

oh my god i love this one: Q: Which philosopher/logician identified an inconsistency in the US Constitution. Einstein tried (and failed) to persuade him not to point this out during his US citizenship test. A: Godel

one of my favourite chinese words is 时光 which Google-translates as ‘time’ but really it’s ’time-light’. as in, ‘the wonderful time-light we spent together’

For more on this, see @saffron.bsky.social's excellent account here: www.cip.org/blog/predist...

The future is here, and it should be co-created. These global dialogues convene thousands of people from around the world to set a vision - and concrete goals - for what world they want. Our first dialogue centers around the fears, dreams, hopes, and attitudes people have about AI.

How are AI Assistants being used in the real world? Our new research shows how to answer this question in a privacy preserving way, automatically identifying trends in Claude usage across the world. 1/

read the paper — there are some fun anecdotes! www.anthropic.com/research/clio

SO excited to share Clio with the world (and on Bsky before Twitter)! Clio generates insights on AI usage patterns, in a way that keeps user data private. It has unlocked, and will continue to unlock, an immense amount of understanding about the present and future of AI use. (Blog linked below)

great news: using AI to generate a silly little short film for my friend's birthday. its so hard to get anything you actually want to happen, happen, consistency is terrible, and what it gives you is so diff from regular filmmaking this overall makes me happy although i am currently suffering

computer history museum highlights: punched-card distribution maps of plant and flower species on the british isles

macbooks are cool, but they can’t print your name in ASCII art on an impact printer that outputs 600 lines per min and smells like an engine

‘the light in San Francisco is like golden hour all day’ - friend

learned a startling amount from this about crime/drugs/addiction & what happens when markets meet vices & vulnerability open.spotify.com/episode/2L2A...

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

@divya.bsky.social and I contributed an essay to this volume on AI morality, edited by the inimitable @davidedmonds100.bsky.social (which delights me as a big Philosophy Bites fan) it's out now & the contributors are incredible: see global.oup.com/academic/pro... or www.amazon.com/AI-Morality-...

life / adaptation / multicellularity (from last night’s max cooper concert)

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

Um yes please to this starter pack go.bsky.app/2JYffeG

going to japan… thinking about encountering japanese design in just 14 hours makes me squeal excitedly like a child

individuals are networks of groups just as groups are networks of individuals

boys love to jump around on the dance floor and collide into each other like bumper cars

just me and the boys (just boys) at zuzalu

exposing how foreign i am but every time someone says the word ‘federal’, usually for very sensible reasons, my immediate instinct is like woah slow down why you gotta make things so american

it’s spring and there’s a great blue heron looking at me

you should not be optimising (boring and lame) you should be maxxing (fun and cool) like don’t ‘optimise’ your life for health or happiness. instead you should be sleepmaxxing. walkmaxxing. park bench maxxing. ice cream maxxing

we can totally do DM's in bluesky first we agree on a prime p and a primitive root g then you pick a secret a, and publicly send me g^a mod p then i pick a secret b, and publicly send you g^b mod p now our shared secret is g^(ab) mod p, and we can use that as a symmetric AES key

love people who are constantly smiling. they walk into a room smiling. im gonna do this

hah i just got covid right before a 2 day workshop i am organising, of all weeks! i was really looking forward to it & many folks flew out for it but people have been really lovely about it and i have a solid team to back me up. which makes me feel, in the end, blessed

happy easter, the holiday of its so over & we’re so back

all my clothes are wrinkled. won’t somebody do something?

found a highly effective no-thoughts-head-empty routine — go to russian banya sit in worryingly hot steam room dump a bucket of ice water on head (brain freeze!) ice plunge sit dazedly repeat

for the first time in my life seriously daydreaming about moving to the mountains and spending my days running and writing and breathing fresh air… i get it now