@ShakeelHashim

Editor + founder @ReadTransformer, covering AI policy. Prev: @TheEconomist, @Protocol, @finimize

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Joined October 2009
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Having all this in one role seems like a mistake to me
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot2h
Wanted: new No 10 adviser to help citizens deal with rise of AI theguardian.com/politics/202…

Wanted: new No 10 adviser to help citizens deal with rise of AI

Andy Burnham advertises for policy experts in technology, economic growth and cost-of-living challenges

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My usual file uploading services aren’t working, here are screenshots of the full letter
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News! OpenAI's written to Gov. Gavin Newsom recommending a bunch of amendments to strengthen SB 53. Includes a bunch of stuff on AI R&D and shutdown controls.
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something extremely funny about using Google AI Overviews to prove her point
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A great piece from Chris — Claude's safeguards are not very hard to circumvent. And it even writes its nefarious scheming in Claudese
Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel20h
My latest for @ReadTransformer looks at how Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election with not all that much jailbreaking transformernews.ai/p/claude-…

Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election

A Transformer investigation found that the chatbot will outline methods to try and sway the outcome of the upcoming US midterms — from fake TikTok personas to flooding comment sections

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Replying to @JVlasto @tarbellcenter
Hi Josh, we have extensive editorial independence policies that protect our work from our publisher and donors. You can see more details here. By the way, who funds Build American AI?transformernews.ai/p/standar…
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I of course had to ask Fable how this compared to the FRONTIER Act. “It reads like SB 53 federalised, then run through a litigator who distrusts Commerce.” As @CharlieBull0ck says, the bill has the strong sense of being drafted by a company that just lived through a very capricious governance process…
POLITICO
@politicoOct 16
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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It's actually worse than this sounds -- all $200k of new money is just interest from their bank. Zero new donations.
Teddy Schleifer
@teddyschleiferOct 15
Leading the Future, the AI super PAC, raised just $200,000 in the third quarter, per new FEC filing. We reported this month that a $25 million donation from Greg Brockman never materialized.
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The @ReadTransformer Campaign Finance Tracker is tracking this — just shy of $1m in spending so far.
Cheyenne Haslett
@cheyennehaslettOct 13
Exclusive for Decoded this AM: New Dem PAC on the AI scene, brought to you by Bernie world 🤝 Biden world, is out with $4m in ads this week hitting Republicans in tight midterm races for being too cozy with Big Tech
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