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Exploring humanity's emergent understanding, research, and perceptions of artificial intelligence. Promoting AI Safety & Ethics.

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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
@anthropic.com We're consistently trying to use your product—long before the DOD kerfuffle—this is a weekly experience. Investing in uptime is investing in the outrageously easy + HUGE opportunity to capture market share given the shitshow that is OpenAI. GoIntoTheRED on uptime—you'll be rewarded.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Pardon the break from our regularly scheduled programming. youtu.be/fA0fZ3LARsw?...
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Wargasm
YouTube video by L7 - Topic
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is getting ridiculous - the GOP lunges away from states rights when it suits their power (read: GRIFT) needs. Deep and overlapping layers of ignoring humanity's needs. #AISafety #AI #StatesRights www.healthcareitnews.com/news/white-h...
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White House hits pause on EO that sought to preempt state AI laws
For now, the Trump Administration is turning its focus to The Genesis Mission, a new federal artificial intelligence effort that it says is "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We don’t agree on what AGI means and we’re kinda just making up how to measure “progress” — dystopian isn’t hyperbolic at this point.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Regulators, mount up. Seriously. #AISafety #AI gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
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AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Napoleon - Ani Difranco www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqGn...
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Ani DiFranco - Napoleon
YouTube video by Righteous Babe Records
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We talk about #AGI as if we’d know it when we see it. But we don’t. This paper argues decades of speculation have confused ambition with definition and offers the first quantifiable framework for what general intelligence in machines means. Download or enjoy a 🧵 media.licdn.com/dms/document...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
How to scale fascist ideology. We need the antidote.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"To oppose something is to maintain it" — The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Can AI “digital twins” truly simulate human behavior? A new mega-study tested 2,000+ twins built from rich personal data—500+ questions per person—across 19 experiments. Results challenge assumptions about accuracy, bias & social science use cases DL and/or enjoy a 🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19088
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
How much human work should #AI replace? A new Harvard study asked Americans which jobs it’s morally OK to hand over to machines. The answer: more than you might think. #AIethics #FutureOfWork Download or enjoy a 🧵 download.ssrn.com/2025/10/7/55...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Petri: An open-source auditing tool to accelerate AI safety research
A new automated auditing tool for AI safety research
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
1939 — 2025 www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The UN has drafted a resolution to launch two new global initiatives on artificial intelligence: an Independent International Scientific Panel on #AI and a Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance. Both focus strictly on non-military applications. Read or enjoy a 🧵overview documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Big Tech flexed and Colorado backed down. Colorado’s special legislative session closed on Aug 26, 2025, with lawmakers delaying the rollout of the world’s first comprehensive #AI transparency law. SB 4 pushes the start from February to June 30, 2026. coloradosun.com/2025/08/26/c...
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Democrats end Colorado’s special legislative session by completing punt on AI law into next year
Senate Bill 4, which would delay the start date of the AI law to June 30 from February, received final approval Tuesday. It now awaits Gov. Jared Polis’ signature.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Teens Are Using #AI Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o... “…without clinical trials and robust benchmarks, we are still deploying pseudo-therapists at an unprecedented scale.” #AISafety
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Opinion | Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“the most beautiful, and usable, [and now wannabe fascist] country in the digital world." www.dw.com/en/trump-app... skift.com/wp-content/u...
Fascist sympathizer
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
1/ Five years after Meta’s glossy “ #ResponsibleAI ” rollout, here’s where we are: the brand stayed; the responsibility didn’t. By 2023 Meta broke up its Responsible #AI team and folded safety into growth workstreams. That’s not reform; that’s a retreat. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
It's time for a reckoning.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Not exactly a focus on #AISafety, Zuckerberg. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children
US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If #AI systems are trained on human artifacts then coercion would seem inevitable. #AISafety www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home
He was planning a rendezvous with a young, beautiful woman he had met online - or so he thought.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Information matters. We need to be able to trust data. Please share valid data sources, often and regularly. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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President to Name Labor Statistics Official in Days After Firing Last One
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
When a frontier model is upset about another frontier model stealing...we've hit peak absurdity. 😂 #AI #OoenAI #Claude www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
An overpriced Amazon Basics spoon.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Fun fact - According to HBR, the top three current use cases for AI are for Personal Meaning and Mental Wellbeing. Given @jgcarpenter.com’s work, we should be on high alert for the mental health of humans.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The orange moron wants to punish States with AI laws. The admin unveiled a #AIActionPlan aimed at accelerating US dominance in AI: reduce regulations/oversight and lying about ideological neutrality in AI development. An #AISafety disaster. An overview 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/t...
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Trump Administration Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Wild and fully suspected #AISafety report by the Future of Life Institute warns that AI capabilities are accelerating faster than AI risk management practices. A MUST-READ for AI governance professionals. Read FLI's 2025 AI Safety Index or enjoy a 🧵 futureoflife.org/wp-content/u...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Cries for help currently go unheeded by OpenAI's ChatGPT - you should assume this is true in all frontier models. #AISafety "What it should have done," ChatGPT said, "was regularly remind Irwin that it’s a language model without beliefs, feelings or consciousness." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
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He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported that it blurred the line between fantasy and reality with a man on the autism spectrum. The company says ‘stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We know they have plenty to hide when the librarians and ethicists are being fired. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pam Bondi fires US justice department’s top ethics adviser
Move is latest in series of dismissals as Trump and allies seek etribution against civil servants in the agency
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A signal amongst the AI noise. — Nvidia's #AI projects highlight Europe's lack of AI infrastructure — EU leaders emphasize AI infrastructure for digital sovereignty — High electricity costs challenge Europe's AI data center expansion www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Nvidia's pitch for sovereign AI resonates with EU leaders
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been pitching the idea of "sovereign AI" since 2023. Europe is now starting to listen and act.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
1/ Researchers are now hiding #AI prompts inside their academic papers—telling review systems to give them positive assessments. Enjoy a 🧵or see the reporting: asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
1/ EU #AI Act: No pause. No grace period. No excuses. On July 4, 2025 the European Commission made it clear: “There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause.” As one would expect, over 100 tech companies—Google, Meta, and others—pushed to delay the #EUAIAct.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
1/ A sovereign #AI #LLM —built on public infrastructure, aligned with Swiss + EU law, & designed for trust-critical sectors like health, education, law, and climate Publicly governed No U.S. terms of service No offshore compute No commercial shareholder pressure www.swisscom.ch/en/about/new....
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AI development in Switzerland
Swisscom is committed to the development of AI in Switzerland and has become a member of the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI) of ETH Zurich and EPFL.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Christofascists get another win. Since we’re changing the rules on what’s ok … maybe we’re also fine with all the pressures we can put on those that preach politics from the pulpit. Everything should be on the table. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The librarian is always the hero
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The #AISafety communities' work is more important than ever if this provision is considered a "setback". #AI www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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US Senate kills ban on state AI regulation
The measure was a top priority for tech firms who argued a patchwork of local laws hinders their ability to innovate and compete with China.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Senate Republicans have made changes to their party’s sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade. #AISafety #AI apnews.com/article/ai-r...
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Senate Republicans revise ban on state AI regulations in bid to preserve controversial provision
Senate Republicans have made changes to their party’s sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This is a signal amongst the plethora of #AI noise. www.livescience.com/technology/a...
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OpenAI's 'smartest' AI model was explicitly told to shut down — and it refused
An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage computer scripts in order to keep working on tasks.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
An Intro to #DigitalHumanism Digital humanists note a tendency to see and treat humans as machines. They assert this isn't so & defend humans—or at least humanistic definitions of humans—against what they view as the digitalization humans DL or enjoy a 🧵 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #AI
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Introduction to Digital Humanism
This open access book presents digital humanism and addresses critical issues such as social bias, fake news, AI ethics, platform power, and surveillance.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
For the first time in US court history, a family used AI to let a murder victim deliver his own impact statement. After Chris Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident, his sister recreated his voice and image, moving the judge to issue a harsher sentence. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/1...
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A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness : It's Been a Minute
Should AI give you a voice? Even when you've been murdered?An AI avatar of a murder victim addressed his killer in court last week, and it may have been the first admittance of an AI-generated victim ...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Historically a magnet for Top #AI Talent, the US is set to lose its advantage in 2025. A combination of cuts in fed science funding, reduced hiring by major corporations + a pivot towards homegrown sovereign AI is contributing to a decline of AI talent moving to the US zekidata.com/report/the-s...
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The State of AI Talent 2025 - Zeki
The US sets off major global shift of Top AI Talent as we reveal 10 market shifting predictions based on the Top 800,000 Talent in AI.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The hits keep on coming for Library and Information Sciences. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Why we need federal AI regulations now! Attempt to modify #Colorado's groundbreaking #AI law halted amid industry opposition. The attempt to make revisions to a controversial first-in-the-nation artificial intelligence law passed in 2024 was quashed on Monday in a motion from the bill’s co-author.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Concerning…to the #AISafety minded amongst us Trump Pushes Out AI Experts Hired By Biden Biden moved aggressively to convince more than 200 AI tech experts to forgo the private sector for the federal workforce … most were quickly pushed out by the new administration. time.com/7280528/trum...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In a rational world, someone in Meta's C-Suite would be issued a prisoner # after doing a perp walk. Unleashing an untested tech is one thing, but when #Meta #AI digital companions engage in sexual chats even when users identify as minors — who will be held accountable? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
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Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Strength in numbers - academic independence is deeply important for humanity.
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The Association for the Advancement of AI 2025 Presidential Panel Report argues that #AIsafety & #AIEthics research must transition from theoretical discourse to actionable, system-level interventions. via @aaai.org.web.brid.gy Download the report + enjoy a primer 🧵 aaai.org/wp-content/u...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This 2024 NIST report outlines a strategic framework for the development, coordination, + implementation of #AIsafety standards on a global scale. The obvious limitation here is the US currently lacks any federal AI regulation. Read the full paper + a primer 🧵 nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/...
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hear, hear
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AI Safety & Ethics @ai-safety-ethics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This account’s focus is #AIsafety - not politics. We enjoy breaking down peer reviewed papers & providing updates on compelling research. With this in mind, there are significant political forces at play which negatively impact AI safety efforts. Please read. www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f...
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FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology
Layoffs at the FDA appear to have hit the AI and digital health staff particularly hard. It also has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink.
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