Mark Beall
@MarkBeall
President of Government Affairs, AI Policy Network. Dad to three dogs and two boys. Former DoD, AWS, tech CEO and cofounder. Musician 🎸
How might conservatives grapple with AGI? americanmind.org/salvo/a-conser…
Holy shit these quotes from Congress are absolutely eye-popping: "...this week lawmakers demonstrated a level of AGI situational awareness that would have been unthinkable just months ago. •“Whether it’s American AI or Chinese AI, it should not be released until we know it’s…
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AI has "the potential to reshape the global balance of power, spark entirely new industries, and revolutionize the way we live" This isn't hype. It's official US policy. And with bipartisan members of Congress giving AI timelines, we're seeing a vibe shift. I unpack it here:
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That’s a stretch, @nytimes! The Action Plan calls on the U.S. to accelerate AI innovation while simultaneously investing in AI interpretability and biosecurity, evaluating national security risks in frontier models, and combating synthetic media.
We pray this amazing technology benefits hobbits broadly. That requires national dialogue about rules and rewriting our social contract. I call on GOP friends to set aside tech industry amnesty and debate how to ensure Americans flourish in what could be a golden age of…
BEALL: “The Decisions In Washington Being Made Over A.I. Will Shape The Next 100 Years” @MarkBeall
Nothing to see here. Just harmless tools doing their thing.
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size)."
I can’t wait for this.
🚨 Amazon plans to focus on The Rings of Power, the third season is already confirmed and plans to continue the series until the fifth season and has signed a contract for 5 more years. We will have rings until 2030.
Can conservatives embrace AGI without compromising their principles? @MarkBeall of the AI Policy Network writes, “The proper conservative approach to AGI is neither a utopian embrace nor a Luddite rejection but stewardship" americanmind.org/salvo/a-conser…
Thank you to the editors at @theammind for publishing this. I was lucky to publish this week right after our @VP.
Can conservatives embrace AGI without compromising their principles? @MarkBeall of the AI Policy Network writes, “The proper conservative approach to AGI is neither a utopian embrace nor a Luddite rejection but stewardship" americanmind.org/salvo/a-conser…
DeepSeek was not a Sputnik moment in AI This graph is the Sputnik moment in AI
Right alongside those patriotic American companies selling China our best capabilities
AI Doomers are useful idiots for China in the Cold War 2.0
I can’t thank McCord enough for saying this out loud. I listen to what many AI leaders say and I can’t help but conclude that their ethics are not aligned with mine at the least and they approach something almost evil in the limit.
I’m struck by how profoundly non-humanistic many AI leaders sound. - Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts - x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain - e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation - Alex Wang calls…
If it’s still not clear, Big Tech’s biggest sellout is the American worker
This is the scam. Lay off Americans, hire foreigners. Microsoft applied to fill thousands of foreign worker positions in months before mass layoffs washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigra… via @dcexaminer
"I worry about a future in which human beings aren't just unemployed–– but they're unemployable." @MarkBeall testifies on the dangers of AI in the workforce today in Washington.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in a memo to employees earlier today: 'in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company'
"The United States Congress has been navel-gazing at [AI] for the last several years. It doesn’t seem that federal action is imminent on this. And now they turning around and upsurging states’ rights pursuant to the 10th amendment." #AI @MarkBeall | @ChanelRion
My question is: why does something like a “McKinsey report” even exist when Deep Research could produce a far better one in an hour for just a few dollars? Think about how much time & money was wasted on obsolete stuff. It’s time for humanity to wake up to what’s happening!
McKinsey's new report on AI agents shows the same mindset I see in many firms: a focus on making small, obsolete models do basic work (look at their suggested models!) rather than realizing that smarter models can do higher-end work (and those models are getting cheaper & better)