Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

@DrTechlash

Communication Researcher, analyzing the tech discourse. Book Author: The TECHLASH. Former Research Fellow, USC. Substack: AI Panic. Signal: DrTechlash.16

Cupertino, CA

Joined November 2020

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 13

🚨The UK AISI identified four methodological flaws in AI "scheming" studies (deceptive alignment) conducted by Anthropic, MTER, Apollo Research, and others: "We call researchers studying AI 'scheming' to minimise their reliance on anecdotes, design research with appropriate…

DrTechlash's tweet image. 🚨The UK AISI identified four methodological flaws in AI "scheming" studies (deceptive alignment) conducted by Anthropic, MTER, Apollo Research, and others:

"We call researchers studying AI 'scheming' to minimise their reliance on anecdotes, design research with appropriate…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · 16 h

"As much as this is an era of AI, it is an era of AI hype. Shedding light on the former necessitates scrutinizing the latter." "AI hype is not inherently positive. The veneration of technology and its fantastical societal transformation is equally propagated by emphasizing…

DrTechlash's tweet image. "As much as this is an era of AI, it is an era of AI hype. Shedding light on the former necessitates scrutinizing the latter."

"AI hype is not inherently positive. The veneration of technology and its fantastical societal transformation is equally propagated by emphasizing…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 21

MIRI had just published the most Orwellian proposal possible: · Government surveillance of datacenters via hardware-enabled mechanisms and software-based tools. · Tracking personnel: Surveillance of key AI researchers and their locations, computers, and research activities. WTF

DrTechlash's tweet image. MIRI had just published the most Orwellian proposal possible:

· Government surveillance of datacenters via hardware-enabled mechanisms and software-based tools.
· Tracking personnel: Surveillance of key AI researchers and their locations, computers, and research activities.

WTF

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 16

A collaboration to automatically spam Federal & State politicians on AI "extinction risks" was launched today by John Sherman's new "AI Risk Network/ GuardRailNow" and Dan Hendrycks' Center for AI Safety. Their tool sends pre-written emails to Congresspeople/Senators/Governors.…

DrTechlash's tweet image. A collaboration to automatically spam Federal &amp; State politicians on AI "extinction risks" was launched today by John Sherman's new "AI Risk Network/ GuardRailNow" and Dan Hendrycks' Center for AI Safety. Their tool sends pre-written emails to Congresspeople/Senators/Governors.…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 16

In early July, Epoch AI estimated that 33 models had been trained with at least 10^25 FLOP. So, here's your REMINDER that the doomers asked to ban/restrict models above 10^21 FLOP (Conjecture), 10^23 (CAIS, ControlAI), 10^24 (GovAI), then 10^25 (FLI, PauseAI, ICFG). They viewed…

DrTechlash's tweet image. In early July, Epoch AI estimated that 33 models had been trained with at least 10^25 FLOP.
So, here's your REMINDER that the doomers asked to ban/restrict models above 10^21 FLOP (Conjecture), 10^23 (CAIS, ControlAI), 10^24 (GovAI), then 10^25 (FLI, PauseAI, ICFG).

They viewed…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 7

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor once wrote: "If the two of us predicted an 80% probability of aliens landing on Earth in the next ten years, would you take this possibility seriously? Of course not. You would ask to see our evidence." Listening to Roman Yampolskiy's latest…

DrTechlash's tweet image. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor once wrote: "If the two of us predicted an 80% probability of aliens landing on Earth in the next ten years, would you take this possibility seriously? Of course not. You would ask to see our evidence."

Listening to Roman Yampolskiy's latest…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 5

MIRI asked the US to pause AI development for… decades. The epicenter of AI doomerism wrote an RFI (Request for Input) on "Development of an AI Action Plan"(*), and it looks as you would expect: "Unless it has goals of the developer's choosing, ASI will put our planet to uses…

DrTechlash's tweet image. MIRI asked the US to pause AI development for… decades.

The epicenter of AI doomerism wrote an RFI (Request for Input) on "Development of an AI Action Plan"(*), and it looks as you would expect: "Unless it has goals of the developer's choosing, ASI will put our planet to uses…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jul 2

In the current AI talent war, everyone is focused on the big numbers (alleged compensation packages). It misses the bigger picture: the cultural shift following the DeepSeek moment. META is the American leader in open science (publications) and open source (Llama). Both OpenAI…

DrTechlash's tweet image. In the current AI talent war, everyone is focused on the big numbers (alleged compensation packages). It misses the bigger picture: the cultural shift following the DeepSeek moment.

META is the American leader in open science (publications) and open source (Llama). Both OpenAI…

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jun 29

FFS 🤦‍♀️

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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@DrTechlash · Jun 26

JD Vance said he read "AI 2027". Is he aware that - according to this project's lead author (Daniel Kokotajlo) - they just pulled numbers out of their asses?

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