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Christopher Altman

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Frontier AI evaluation · Founder & PI, Continuation Observatory · Quantum information scientist · Starlab veteran · NASA-trained commercial astronaut · lab.christopheraltman.com/bio

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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
theblackvault.com
Newly Released Documents Show UAP “Space Tiger Team” Built Around Space and Transmedium Cases - The Black Vault
A newly released Department of War document obtained through a Freedom of Information Request request (FOIA case #24-F-1205) originally filed with U.S. Space Command (FOIA case #24-R-020), outlines th...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
whitehouse.gov
President Donald J. Trump Unveils National AI Legislative Framework
The Trump Administration is committed to winning the AI race to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
continuationobservatory.org
Continuation Observatory
Structural measurement platform for continuation signals.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
lab.christopheraltman.com
Research Lab | Christopher Altman
Quantum ML • AI Alignment • Reproducible research artifacts
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’ve just posted a new paper to arXiv — Wigner's Friend as a Circuit: We implement and benchmark the Violaris inter-branch communication witness protocol on superconducting quantum hardware, with full provenance and reproducibility. arxiv.org/abs/2601.16004
arxiv.org
Wigner's Friend as a Circuit: Inter-Branch Communication Witness Benchmarks on Superconducting Quantum Hardware
We implement and benchmark on IBM Quantum hardware the circuit family proposed by Violaris for estimating operational inter-branch communication witnesses, defined as correlations in classical measure...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
genesis.energy.gov
Genesis Mission
A National Initiative to Accelerate Science Through AI. Genesis Mission is a national initiative to build the world's most powerful scientific platform to accelerate discovery science, strengthen nati...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
whitehouse.gov
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
research.google
Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
popularmechanics.com
A Quantum Breakthrough Just Pulled Off Teleportation—and Cleared a Path to the Next Internet
For a future quantum internet to work, scientists need to perfect a quantum repeater that can send information over long distances.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
phys.org
Time crystals arise from quantum interactions once thought to prevent their formation
Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results from the oscillation of its pendulum. These phenomena can be understood with v...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
phys.org
Proposed framework describes physics from perspective of quantum reference frames
In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna present a new framework for...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Barack Obama just issued a sharp warning that AI could wipe out jobs on a level not seen in a century. He says 2026 will be the turning point. Well-paid intellectual and expert-level jobs will be replaced altogether. The entire world will change forever.
youtube.com
Obama warning that AI is about to cause mass unemployment
YouTube video by TaijhTV
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
cbsnews.com
Artificial intelligence could end disease, lead to "radical abundance," Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says
At Google DeepMind, researchers are chasing what's called artificial general intelligence: a silicon intellect as versatile as a human's, but with superhuman speed and knowledge.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
youtube.com
Kawasakiが提案する未来のパーソナルモビリティ「CORLEO」
YouTube video by Kawasaki Group Channel
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
youtu.be
What If Humans and AI Unite? | AGE OF BEYOND
YouTube video by Aze Alter
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
universetoday.com
How Warp Drives Actually (Might) Work
To make a warp drive you have to arrange spacetime so that you never locally travel faster than light but still arrive at your destination…faster than light. And in 1994 Mexican physicist Miguel Alcub...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
nature.com
AI could soon tackle projects that take humans weeks
New metric assesses how AI is getting better at completing long tasks — but some researchers are wary of long-term predictions.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
theguardian.com
Nasa astronauts back on Earth after being stuck months on ISS: ‘grins, ear to ear’
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore back safely with American Nicholas Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
livescience.com
Scientists spent 10 years cracking superbug problem. It took Google's 'co-scientist' a lot less.
Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When prompted, Google's new AI "co-scientist" gave them the answer in two days.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
physicsworld.com
Quantum behaviour in brain neurons looks theoretically possible – Physics World
A study probing quantum phenomena in brain neurons could provide fresh insight into how our brains function
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
America needs a strong NASA — The agency needs to lead, not just fund, the future of space exploration and development. In addition to a lunar outpost, we should embrace the type of leapfrog exploration endeavors where no other nation can compete.
spacenews.com
America needs a strong NASA
As United States government agencies go, NASA is unique. It remains the only entity in the world to have landed humans on the moon. It sent robotic probes to every planet, advancing our understandi…
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
anthropic.com
Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
thetimes.com
Anthropic chief: ‘By next year, AI could be smarter than all humans’
Dario Amodei believes ‘superintelligence’ is almost here. Danny Fortson goes inside the headquarters of OpenAI’s big rival
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
bigthink.com
4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation
We've wasted our time and resources ideologically policing and punishing each other for far too long. Here's a better route to prosperity.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
thequantuminsider.com
U.S. Quantum Industry Pushing For More Federal Support, Appointing a ‘Quantum Czar’
U.S. quantum industry is pushing for the reauthorization of the National Quantum Initiative Act and the appointment of a “quantum czar”.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Preserving Coherence in Quantum Systems
phys.org
What is quantum coherence?
We say a message is incoherent when we can't make it out, or when it doesn't make sense. A scribbled note, a drunken argument or a conversation taking place five tables down in a crowded cafe might al...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
phys.org
Advancing quantum materials: A new approach to controlling electronic states
A collaborative team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Nanjing University, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (SLAB), and international partners...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
youtu.be
Introducing Helix
YouTube video by Figure
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
vice.com
A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
“Our instincts of time and causation are our deepest, strongest instincts that physicists and philosophers—and humans—are loath to give up,” said one scientist.
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Ken Wharton @kenwharton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I actually shelled out 4 bucks so I could peek behind the Popular Mechanics paywall and see what they are saying about retrocausality in quantum foundations. Maybe I got about 40 cents worth? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a637...
popularmechanics.com
Your Consciousness Can Reach Back in Time to Shape the Past, a New Theory Suggests
In the quantum realm, the past, present, and future blur into a boundless structure. But consciousness may operate on a plane beyond this timeless mist.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
christopheraltman.com
Quantum technologist, NASA-trained Commercial Astronaut Christopher Altman
Tracking advanced research and development initiatives at the confluence of quantum mechanics and information science since 2000.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
theguardian.com
AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years
Meta’s Yann LeCun says current systems too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
edition.cnn.com
Blue Ghost lunar lander is documenting its journey to the moon. The views are breathtaking | CNN
The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Magnetic Sense in Animals Could Be Shockingly Close to Quantum Limits — Physicists evaluated the energy resolution limit of three evolutionary adaptations, finding at least two are within a hair's breadth of the quantum limits of magnetic field detection.
sciencealert.com
Magnetic Sense in Animals Could Be Shockingly Close to Quantum Limits
Earth's magnetosphere is a guiding beacon for a variety of species capable of sensing its presence.
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A high-performance organic electrochemical neuron that operates in the frequency range of human neurons—complete perception system of engineered neurons with artificial touch receptors and synapses, enabling real-time tactile signal sensing and processing.
scitechdaily.com
Scientists Develop Artificial Neurons That Mimic Human Perception
Advancements could enhance perceptual capabilities in robotics. Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain a challenging target for organic electronics experts du...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
youtube.com
The Age of Disclosure | Official Trailer (2025)
YouTube video by The Age Of Disclosure
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
newatlas.com
Ghost in the machine: The race toward conscious, sentient AI
As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, defining and understanding human consciousness, one pioneering startup aims to apply cutting-edge theories of consciousness to AI models – and creat...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/t...
edition.cnn.com
Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US | CNN Business
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Chairman of Oracle appeared is set to appear at the White House Tuesday afternoon alongside President Donald Trump and other tech CEOs to announce...
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Christopher Altman @christopheraltman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
thequantuminsider.com
Is Consciousness Research The Next Big Quantum Use Case?
Researchers and companies are exploring whether quantum computing can help unravel the mysteries of consciousness.
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