Email salesman at Platformer and podcast co-host at Machine Gods, the official podcast of the singularity. In partnership with NPR.

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Joined August 2009
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sure, it’s Wifi1234
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Exclusive: fired OpenAI whistleblowers involved with the METR investigation into the Hugging Face hack, @tomekkorbak and @balesni, sit down with @KevinRoose and @CaseyNewton. New Machine Gods with @NPR is out now.
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Based on this article, OpenAI has made false accusations about me. The three researchers fired from OpenAI were told I facilitated architecture leaks to The Information. This is false. A journalist from The Information did reach out to me shortly before that article came out. I did not comment at all beyond asking the journalist to make it clear that a blog post I wrote which was referenced in the article was preexisting and public. The article also mentions an internal OpenAI monitorability proposal. I have heard that this memo contained highly sensitive architecture information, and that OpenAI accused me of accessing and reading it. This accusation is also false. As reported in the article, I viewed a version of the proposal that did not have sensitive IP and was approved for sharing with me. I believe OpenAI now knows this accusation was based on a conflation of these two documents, though I do not know if they have clearly retracted that accusation. I do not and have never solicited proprietary information, and the three employees who were recently fired from OpenAI never leaked IP to me. As the article mentions, I did have Signal chats with them that had disappearing messages on; they’re professional contacts that I’ve had on Signal for a while, and use of Signal is common in the tech industry. During the Hugging Face investigation, I was careful to avoid sending Signal messages with confidential information, though I did sometimes discuss high level things on Signal calls. As far as I understood, this was normal.
New: The three researchers OpenAI fired last month spent the summer fighting to keep AI's chain-of-thought process visible. Then, OpenAI asked to see their Signal chats. A week later, they were let go. More below from @keachhagey, @berber_jin1, and me. wsj.com/tech/ai/the-signal-c…
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In their first podcast interview, fired OpenAI safety researchers @balesni and @tomekkorbak give us their account of the events leading up to their dismissal. It's a wild story: youtube.com/watch?v=tjAg_KxA…
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ate six Reese’s cups and my Apple Watch asked if I’d been in an accident
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Tomorrow on @MachineGodsPod: the first interview with @balesni and @tomekkorbak, two of the three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired earlier this month.
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Thanks for letting me know about your book EXACTLY WHAT TO DO ABOUT AI whose final draft was due 18 months ago and comes out in December
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Having to hit shift-ESC to clear a badge every time someone hearts a post in Slack driving me slowly insane
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Claude Duet launching as a separate, mobile-only app makes it way less useful than OpenAI's Dots, which you can access from everywhere. Agents are for work, and the phone is an inferior work device
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The first rule of cybersecurity is to have fun and be yourself
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one episode in , @MachineGodsPod is #3! come join us we’re having fun
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Today’s PHP security risks got me thinking about how I could have been more vulnerable with you. Perhaps we can patch things up and be there 4 one another.
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Texting is really nice on the Duo
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Dear god it's inventing German from first principles
GPT-6.1-Sol reasoning traces totally legible, nothing to worry about
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Spotify just took away the last excuse for your Wrapped sucking at the end of the year
THEY DID IT! @Spotify FINALLY DID IT!
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Replying to @kevinroose
@KevinRoose and @CaseyNewton see their new podcast set for the first time 👀 Machine Gods, NPR's official podcast of the singularity, premieres TOMORROW on a brand new set. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Putting an "I bought this before she went crazy" sticker on my Theranos device
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