Neil Chilson ⤴️⬆️🆙📈 🚀
@neil_chilson
Lawyer, computer scientist & author of book 'Getting Out of Control.' Was chief technologist @FTC, now Head of AI Policy at Abundance Institute.
My new essay red teams the latest version of California's SB 1047 -- and pulls lessons for future AI legislation. outofcontrol.substack.com/p/red-teaming-…
This is not a good definition of innovation.
When you steal from rich people it's theft. When you steal from regular people, it's innovation.
Relevant! Just out from @PeterBoettke and @Marian_L_Tupy :
I'll be guest editing a special issue of @cosmosandtaxis on the work of Don Lavoie. Lavoie made vital contributions to comparative economic systems, political economy, cultural economics, and more. Submit your abstract to me by September 1st! cosmosandtaxis.org/submissions/ca…
Zero-sum thinking generates negative-sum reality.
This is the biggest risk we face right now:
The Very Stable[coin] GENIUS Act
Trump's opening: "[...] the GENIUS act, named after... me. " *crowd erupts in laughter*
Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.” “Well, AI is coming for the coders.” “It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.” “In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need…
The EU loaded the gun and is now asking AI companies to paint a target on their own back. Good on Meta for refusing.
Meta will not sign the EU code of practice for general-purpose AI models.
One big reason why AI intelligence will gather increasingly in the browser (like Perplexity’s Comet) The browser wars are about to heat up all over again
IF YOUR JOB IS SPREADING IDEAS, PAY ATTENTION. Cloudflare's new default setting - to block AI crawlers from websites - ignores those of us who want our ideas as broadly adopted as possible. If you "write for the AI," as @tylercowen has put it, you need to take action. 🧵
"Ambitious optimism is morally mandatory." 🚀
For 50 years, pessimists have been wrong. In this interview, The Rational Optimist author @mattwridley walks us through the miracle of human advancement, from lighting a room to transforming entire economies. This is the story you’ve never been told about how the modern world…