And while you're here, and if you're interested on AI-related campaign financing and pro-AI Super Pacs — why not have a click around on the new (and very snazzy) AI Campaign Finance Tracker we've built? All the pivotal races, all in one convenient place.
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The Transformer weekly newsletter is here!
The big AI story has been around Anthropic, the Pentagon and the White House, but our Big Story this week is focusing on the big, big money moving around AI and campaign financing. Stay on top of all of it here:
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We plan to continuously expand and improve it, too: take a look, and let us know what other features you’d like to see.
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In an election cycle where AI and its money are set to play a huge role, the tool is designed to quickly show you who's spending and where.
It collates data on super PAC fundraising and race-by-race spending, as well as political giving from major AI companies + their employees.
Introducing the Transformer AI Campaign Finance Tracker — the ultimate tool for monitoring AI's influence on elections.
You've probably got.a lot of questions about autonomous weapons, and you likely have a lot of anxieties about them too.
We've got a lot of answers, though we probably can't help with those anxieties.
What you need to know about autonomous weapons:
www.transformernews.ai/p/what-you-n...
He's fought against regulating cryptocurrency, and now he's helping OpenAI avoid regulation too.
Here's what Chris Lehane has brought to OpenAI, and how it symbolises just how much they've changed in the last few years.
He helped crush crypto's enemies, and he might be the clearest symbol there is of what OpenAI is transforming into, or even how it lost its way.
On the "guerilla warrior" who taught OpenAI how to fight:
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-gueril...
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael called Dario Amodei “a liar [with] a God-complex”, and OpenAI have raised an ungodly $110b, which could help with building the machine God.
Catch up with all the week's AI news via the God-like omniscience of our weekly update:
www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-...
"Humans have come up with lots of creative ways to kill each other over the last few millennia. Our deadliest mass murders, however, have mostly been incidental."
Concerning the nightmare scenario: just how worried should we be about AI biorisk?
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"It is not hard to picture how such an administration would weaponize AI-enhanced surveillance."
This is exactly how the leading AI labs could already be leading us into a technological dystopia.
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"We cannot be at all confident that OpenAI can or will actually prevent the Pentagon from using its models to conduct mass surveillance on Americans. We just have to take the company, and the government’s, word for it. History suggests we shouldn’t."
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Mass surveillance has never been very popular with the US public. But the untested ground of AI-enhanced state surveillance could be an existential threat to the future of American democracy itself.
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"As the Snowden files revealed, mass surveillance is nothing new. But AI could take it to an entirely new level, creating a true digital panopticon."
In enabling AI-enhanced surveillance, could these major AI labs foster a dystopian nightmare?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-dod-fi...
Is the increased productivity from AI causing more work for AI users? Is the left taking the right approach on incoming superintelligence? And do British AI researchers be like "anfropic?"
Catch up with all the AI discourse with our weekly newsletter.
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If AI isn't replacing you (and it seems to be replacing a lot of people), it might still be forcing you into an evermore burdensome grind.
For all its benefits, instead of alleviating our burnout, is AI becoming the very thing that's burning us out?
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"We would all hope that AI companies would proceed carefully. However, it appears that caution has been thrown to the wind."
In our newest piece, Lord Hunt argues that the UK has to spearhead a pause on the development of the most advanced AI models.
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Glib, clever, semi-ironic dismissals of AI as just a "next-word predictor" or as "not really intelligence" might be stunting the left from actually seeing what AI is, what AI might become, and what the left might actually be able to do about AI.
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
Alex Bores wants to fix the Democrats' AI problem, with a “willingness to stand up to the political influence that is pushing for nothing to happen”. But what exactly is it going to take to make something happen instead?
www.transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores...
On our weekly newsletter, as ever, we've got everything you need to know about what's been happening in the world of AI. For instance: a bunch of people have been leaving AI Labs lately due to quite severe concerns. So should you be severely concerned too?
www.transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores...
The left is used to rather glibly dismissing AI as something unlikeable, insignificant, and faddish — but this risks them missing their chance to see it for what it is, and to actually co-ordinate on doing something about it.
Our latest piece:
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“This ‘let it rip’ approach that is coming from the federal government right now is one that won’t serve us well." Read our interview with House candidate Alex Bores, plus everything you need to know in AI policy, in the latest Transformer Weekly:
Last week the AI frontier jumped forward — twice.
But the more advanced AI becomes, the more difficult it is to tell whether novel AI models are dangerous: evaluation techniques simply cannot keep up with the jagged frontier.
So we're flying blind.
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The political world is unsettlingly chaotic, the AI world is dizzyingly rapid: but if you want to stay on top of how they affect each other, you can always rely on our very calming and well-organised weekly newsletter.
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Nvidia is (maybe?) open to investing as much as $100b in OpenAI! SpaceX has acquired xAI, creating a $1.25t company! Google plans to double AI spending this year up to $185b!
For these and more inconceivably large numbers, check out our latest newsletter.
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It's Transformer Weekly: the brisk and essential roundup of everything interesting in AI this week.
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Psst! Our latest weekly newsletter is out! From brawls between CEOs via Superbowl ads (very scandalous!) to AI trying to hire human CEOs to represent them out here in "meatspace" (deeply eerie!), it has pretty much everything you could possibly need to know about AI this week.
"I threw this out here like a grenade and here we are".
By now, that's probably not something you want to hear about the big shiny new (and deeply consequential) thing in AI. But Moltbook has been thrown out here like a grenade, and, well, here we are.
www.transformernews.ai/p/moltbook-i...
Last week, San Francisco’s Best Buy sold out of Mac Minis, presumably scooped up by tech bros hoping to make OpenClaw safer by quarantining it inside its own computer.
But Moltbook and OpenClaw are still a total security nightmare. And the threat extends beyond their users.
Yoshua Bengio has warned that “the pace of advances is still much greater than the pace of [progress in] how we can manage those risks and mitigate them."
And these examples of just what AI's capable of should serve as a wake-up call.
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