Eric Neyman
@ericneyman
Professional reference class tennis player. I like non-fillet frozen fish, packaged medicaments, and other oily seeds.
I'm in England for the week, and wow, everyone here acts like they're British?? Like, they put on a British accent, put milk in their tea, even drive on the wrong side of the road... honestly, impressive commitment to the bit!
xAI launched Grok 4 without any documentation of their safety testing. This is reckless and breaks with industry best practices followed by other major AI labs. If xAI is going to be a frontier AI developer, they should act like one. 🧵
Greatest state legislator of all time?
State Senator Scott Wiener, author of California AI safety bill SB 1047, is back at it. He's been advancing a new bill, SB 53, to create whistleblower protections for AI employees. Wiener just amended it to include transparency requirements with TBD penalties from the CA AG 🧵
The AI 2027 scenario is terrifying and important. More people should be thinking about how radical change might come over the next few years, how likely it is, and how a sane world would be reacting to it. We want to bring you into the story, and the conversation. Video here:
The video linked in thread is really good. Highly recommended.
Delighted to finally share with the world what I’ve been up to with the help of some incredible people — a video tour of the wave-making, Vice-Presidential-attention getting AI 2027 scenario. (Link below)
They should've called it "Algorithms to Die By"
Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025. You should probably read it! Given that, we'd like you to preorder it! Nowish!
This recent report from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models is an important step towards effective and balanced AI regulation in California. It builds meaningfully on the International AI Safety Report and offers a thoughtful framework for policymaking…
My friend @ConfluxConflux turned my blog post into a video!!
have you ever wanted to know Shawn Mendes' position on the Kuril Islands territorial dispute? or where he was in his song Lost in Japan? wonder no longer because I have created a youtube video on this topic! (it's an adaptation of Eric's viral Hacker News post)
Some huge book endorsements today — from retired three-star general Jack Shanahan, former DHS Under Secretary Suzanne Spaulding, security expert Bruce Schneier, Nobel laureate Ben Bernanke, former US NSC Senior Director Jon Wolfsthal, geneticist George Church, and more!