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AI safety advocates can have little of a conflict of interest as a treat uwu

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    5 months ago

    Article summary:

    A close look into the people and entities who helped draft and advocate for California’s controversial AI safety bill (SB 1047) reveals that one of the bill’s co-sponsors could have a significant conflict of interest Dan Hendrycks, an executive at Center for AI Safety — the firm whose lobbying arm helped draft the bill — co-founded a company called Gray Swan that offers AI safety compliance tools that seem positioned to provide the type of auditing data the bill would require; Gray Swan publicly launched on Tuesday The Center’s lobbying arm was set up so it could help draft SB 1047 after state senator Scott Wiener approached the Center

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    5 months ago

    This is fuckin Pirate Wires, the batshit reactionary minority-crimes-reporting pseudo-magazine produced by Thiel acolyte Mike Solana at the Founders’ Fund. So my first assumption is let them fight.

    archive: https://archive.is/81sgW

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      5 months ago

      Thanks for the info. I had never heard of this one before & didn’t know I was shit posting on behalf of Thiel’s ilk ;_;