Politico: Silicon Valley’s anti-regulation super PACs lose their fear factor
“[Leading the Future] went into this race as a genuinely frightening force,” said Calvin. “And they left the race not a particularly imposing force that politicians don’t seem particularly afraid of.”
Fortune: Sam Altman says AI superintelligence is so big that we need a ‘New Deal’
“I hope this document signals a move toward more constructive engagement, instead of attacking politicians pushing the very policies OpenAI is now endorsing,” said Calvin,
Harvard Berkman Klein Center: AI Policy at the Frontier, A Conversation with Nathan Calvin (Encode) and Fin Moorhouse (Forethought)
What does it take to govern a technology that might reshape the world within the decade? Answering that requires both big-picture thinking about where AI is heading and close engagement with the policy fights shaping it in the present. This event brings together two speakers who sit on opposite ends of that spectrum — one […]
Voters Warn Trahan: Don’t Let Big Tech Wipe Out AI Safeguards
“There is overwhelming support for stronger guardrails around the development and use of AI,” said Adam Billen, Co-Executive Director, Encode AI. “Massachusetts has been a national leader in addressing AI-related risks. Freezing those efforts now would roll back the hard-won protections Massachusetts lawmakers have established and leave the state’s children, families, and workers more vulnerable to harm from AI now and into the future. We urge Rep. Trahan to put the safety of her constituents ahead of corporate interests and oppose this preemption legislation.”
The fact that xAI is renting out its computing resources to another AI company is a sign that there is insufficient demand to use its models, and that they “don’t know exactly what to do with those data centers,” says Nathan Calvin, general counsel at Encode AI, an AI advocacy group. “That’s clearly not good [for xAI].”
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