Alberto Tono
@albertotono3
PhD Candidate @Stanford | Founder @CDInstitut | RS PhD @googledeepmind ex RS PhD @adobe @zillow @autodesk | @Senate
Day 10 in Washington DC 🏛️ 🌈 The AI moratorium just got a major revision! @SenTedCruz announced states can now opt-in for federal funding while keeping their own AI rules. Think of America’s state AI laws like a diverse investment portfolio - California’s safety-first…
34DC 🌕🚀👨🚀 🚀 On the 56th of Apollo 11 (07/20) I spoke with Norm Thagard, 1st American cosmonaut, about #AIActionPlan at the @NASAKennedy. His insight: we need to win the AI race reminding ourself that we do “these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
26DC 🇨🇳 Thank you to panelists for the “AI Diffusion & Adoption in China” workshop at RAND Your insights on AI’s role in China’s economy, industry, politics, military, and biotech were invaluable. @RANDCorporation
22DC: The #EUAIAct Code of Practice is out. It outlines voluntary commitments for general-purpose AI (GPAI) model providers to comply with related obligations. 1) Transparency - Model Documentation Form 2) Copyright 3) Safety & Security ⚠️ Penalties: The EU can fine…
21 DC 🔐 Key insights from Dan Lahav @aipatternlab and @hamandcheese @JoinFAI: We face an epistemic crisis dividing people into empiricists vs. extrapolators. As Congressman @DonBeyerVA noted, we need better extrapolators—“better Isaac Asimov.” 📚🦾Lauren Deason from @Meta…
17 in DC. 🇺🇸 🎂 🎆 As we celebrate US independence from the UK 🇺🇸🇬🇧, is America falling behind in AI governance? 🤔 1. Does the Senate’s near-unanimous AI moratorium vote 📊 reveal a harsh truth: are current federal regulations failing to address AI’s risks? 2. Should the…
Day 13 in Washington DC 🗳️ “Vote-a-rama” Waiiting for the 5-year AI moratorium vote 🗳️, where “That’s one small ‘vote’ for a man” could mean “one giant leap for mankind” - promoted by Senator @SenTedCruz and @MarshaBlackburn. Is “AI Independence Day” coming? Will history…
Day 12 in Washington DC 🗼 “Sound Policy demands sound Science” . It should be sound as the Washington Monument tallest free-standing stone structure in the world. 🌎 Do you think that current academic practices are flooding the research ecosystem with numerous…
Day 8 in Washington DC. Attended a fireside chat with @MattInThemittel and Congressman @RepMcCormick at @CatoInstitute. Had the chance to discuss the uncertainty AI researchers are facing—the breakneck pace of change creates a Tofflerian future shock anxiety where the line…
Day 7 in Washington DC 🏛️ Should senators back the AI moratorium in the #BBB #OBBBA, tied to ~$500M for AI for all the states (~9M each), upheld by the Byrd Rule, that might block *state* AI laws for 10 yrs? 🔗 techpolicy.press/proposed-feder… “If signed into law, the moratorium would…
Day 6 in Washington DC 🇺🇸 How might the geographic redistribution of AI talent away from the United States fundamentally reshape the global AI landscape, and what are the potential implications for innovation, economic competitiveness, and technological sovereignty as countries…
Day 4 in Washington DC 🇺🇸 Could the “Two Georges” exhibition at the @librarycongress reveal intriguing parallels between King George III’s potential loss of America from G. Washington and today’s evolving US AI race worldwide? King George III wasn’t the “Mad King” of myth—he…
