Asheltech @asheltech

@BenjaminDEKR See also Magic Leap.

mes tweets un peu techniques sont pas super evidents à comprendre pour tout le monde alors je vais tenter de vulgariser au mieux pour expliquer toute la comedie qui se joue autour de l’IA en ce moment sachez déjà que nous assistons probablement à la + grande manipulation tech de notre epoque car quand je vois les dirigeants des plus grands labos de la silicon valley reclamer soudainement une pause et demander des exemptions aux lois antitrust au nom de la securitée globale je pense que nous devons regarder exactement la où ils veulent detourner notre attention mettez vous en tête que ce spectacle pseudo ethique masque une panique financière tres concrete face aux miliards engloutis dans des supercalculateurs dont les rendements sessoufflent combinee à la terreur dexposer ces pertes dans leurs prochaines formulaires d’IPO (entrée en bourse) puis je trouve que la methode brille par son cynisme sils estiment sincerement que leurs modeles non publies representent un danger ce duopole (Anthropic /openAI) possede deja toute la latitude pour freiner ses propres deploiements sans demander la permission a quiconque au lieu de cela ils nomment leurs propres organismes dévaluation soi disant independants comme METR en y placant leurs anciens employes et investisseurs & réclament une exemption antitrust officielle pour s’entendre sur le rythme de l’innovation en cherchent à substituer un tampon bureaucratique à leur responsabilite civile réelle comprenez que leur demarche vise avant tout a imposer leurs propres controleurs à des concurrents qui ne sont meme pas à la frontiere technologique… perso je pense que le calcul geopolitique qui se cache derriere ce recit s’avère tout aussi bancal car prétendre limiter le progrès aux seules nations alignées sous couvert de coordination entre democraties pour maintenir une avance artificielle relève de l’illusion pure dites vous que pendant que la silicon valley redige des chartes morales pour preserver ses rentes, verrouiller le marche americain et criminaliser la concurence exterieure, les laboratoires chinois optimisent leurs algorithmes tirent parti dune energie abordable et distribuent la puissance de calcul a une fraction du cout occidental, les batisseurs a lautre bout du monde avancent et construisent pendant que les geants americains debattent dun cartel sur mesure de même je pense que l’erreur fondamentale de ces acteurs reside dans la confusion entre la fin de leur monopole et la fin de la civilisation sachez que de l’invention de l’imprimerie au deploiement de la cryptographie moderne les pouvoirs centraux ont toujours qualifie la democratisation des outils de la pensée de menace pour lordre public le problème pour eux cnest que l’intelligence artificielle depasse la notion d’actif prive enfermé dans des coffres forts d’entreprise, elle simpose comme une propriete fondamentale de la matière et du calcul & vouloir rationner le code par decret administratif revient à tenter de breveter les lois de la physique je pense que l’avenir appartiendra inévitablement aux protocoles ouverts au calcul souverain et à l’inférence locale car la veritable resilience d’une societe emerge directement dun systeme immunitaire décentralisé ou des millions dutilisateurs inspectent, eprouvent et ameliorent la technologie en temps reel loin de la stérilité des laboratoires ultra centralisés les institutions qui tentent deriger des murs autour du savoir finissent par isoler leur propre fragilite pendant que le reste du monde batit le siecle sur des fondations libres

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

a month ago

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.

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