Thrilled to welcome Ian Watson to @redqueenbio as Chief Government Affairs Officer! Ian was most recently Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for CBRN. He knows how to build and scale biological defenses; now we get to create the next generation together. citybiz.co/article/917325/re…

In a test, he told Claude he was shutting it down. It emailed its own weights to Hugging Face. Progress ep08 is live with @aengus_lynch1, lead author of Anthropic's agentic misalignment study. We got into pause buttons, AI consciousness, and the new Gilded Age.

the fact that tens of thousands of people are taking research grade peptides and there have been essentially zero issues relating to CMC-type problems is a huge indictment of compassionate use / expanded access controls

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

Today we’re launching Project Tailwind, a call for founders to start ambitious new AI safety initiatives: coefficientgiving.org/tailwi… We’re looking for great people to engage seriously with the risks of transformative AI, and to create the research, technologies, and institutions that will help humanity navigate them. There are critical, basic problems that no one owns. Over the last several months, my team at @coeff_giving brainstormed ideas we’d be excited to fund if we could find a promising founder, and the list quickly grew to more than 200 entries. We’ve narrowed it down to our favorites, but we also expect the best founders to bring their own ideas: coefficientgiving.org/tailwi… We’re providing funding at three levels: 1️⃣ Pre-seed: $200k to $2m to develop an idea and build a team 2️⃣ Seed: $2m to $20m to launch and scale 3️⃣ Scale: $20m to $200m+ for proven teams to scale, or world-class teams to start If you’re excited about something on our list, or you have another proposal for driving the field forward, you should get involved: coefficientgiving.org/tailwi… There are more good projects than there are people to work on them. Please help us make that stop being true! Also hi, I’m Emily! This is my first tweet. I lead AI and biosecurity grantmaking at @coeff_giving.