It opens up entirely new possibilities for things that you can do—where you can go into battle or do a terrorist attack with zero risk to yourself, and you can also do it anonymously, because if some drones show up and start killing people somewhere you have no idea who sent them. [...] One of the main factors that limits wars today is that people have skin in the game. [...] Politicians don’t want to see body bags coming home, and even a lot of terrorists don’t want to get killed. (source)

First, it is vital that AI companies–especially those working on the most powerful models–adhere to an appropriate set of safety requirements, including internal and external testing prior to release and publication of evaluation results. (source)

I would be favorable to the idea that we could have an artificial intelligence agency ... inspired by what the international agency of atomic energy is today. (source)

Then what I’d like to see eventually is an equivalent of a CERN for AI safety that does research into that – but internationally. And then maybe there’s some kind of equivalent one day of the IAEA, which actually audits these things. (source)

I fully expect that in a few years it’s going to be completely obvious to everyone that open-sourcing AI is just not wise. (source)

I see the danger of this concentration of power through proprietary AI systems as a much bigger danger than everything else. What works against this is people who think that for reasons of security, we should keep AI systems under lock and key because it’s too dangerous to put it in the hands of everybody. That would lead to a very bad future in which all of our information diet is controlled by a small number of companies who proprietary systems. (source)

From a business perspective, the difference between open and closed is a little bit overblown. From a security perspective, the difference between open and closed models is, for some intents and purposes, overblown. The most important thing is how powerful a model is. If a model is very powerful, then I don’t want it given to the Chinese by being stolen. I also don’t want it given to the Chinese by being released. If a model is not that powerful, then it’s not concerning either way. (source)

Black-box audits are insufficient for ensuring that an AI is safe and robust. At a minimum, we need white-box audits where the auditor can look inside the AI and learn about how it reasons. (source)

I am very concerned about deploying such systems without a better handle on interpretability. These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work. (source)

The problem is not that Europe lacks ideas or ambition. We have many talented researchers and entrepreneurs filing patents. But innovation is blocked at the next stage: we are failing to translate innovation into commercialisation, and innovative companies that want to scale up in Europe are hindered at every stage by inconsistent and restrictive regulations. As a result, many European entrepreneurs prefer to seek financing from US venture capitalists and scale up in the US market. Between 2008 and 2021, close to 30% of the “unicorns” founded in Europe – startups that went on the be valued over USD 1 billion – relocated their headquarters abroad, with the vast majority moving to the US. With the world on the cusp of an AI revolution, Europe cannot afford to remain stuck in the “middle technologies and industries” of the previous century. We must unlock our innovative potential. This will be key not only to lead in new technologies, but also to integrate AI into our existing industries so that they can stay at the front. (source)

The most popular companies in tech are focused on AI right now for a reason. It’s the next frontier of computing. The European Union seems to consider AI the enemy. Any technology can be used for good or bad. By regulating it even before Europe has made much contributions (Europe has almost no tech companies leading in AI), it has stifled any potential innovation in AI from the start. Apart from the regulation itself, the optics of it make the EU look bad on a global scale. Why would tech founders move to Europe to start a business if the EU is actively positioning itself as Anti-AI? AI has gigantic potential to be used for good: think of the medical field for diagnosis of diseases, generally in programming (it helps programmers to create software faster/better), etc. This goes further than AI. The same applies to tech in general. It seems the EU is on a crusade against technology while not being able to compete in it itself. It feels a case of sour grapes: if we can’t build great technology in EU, nobody is allowed to do so! (source)

SORA, OpenAI's new video model, is finally here... well, it's available everywhere except the UK and Europe. With the speed at which technology is advancing, not being able to try it out is a tremendous lack of competitiveness. Either someone revisits the Draghi report, or we're all going to have to emigrate... by necessity. (source)

Trump and Musk are steering the US toward significant economic and technological growth, and potentially making humanity a multiplanetary species. Meanwhile in the EU, we're busy clicking on cookie banners. The courage and determination of the US are the spirit we need to rekindle at home. Right now, we have a rare opportunity to restructure Europe, follow in the footsteps of the US, and make the West stronger. We need our own @DOGE to undo the nonsensical regulations and cut wasteful spending. Repeal GDPR. Repeal MiCA. Repeal DMA. Repeal the AI Act. Repeal the other baloney regulations. (source)

Javi Lopez, @javilopen, Europe is so fucked, ROUND 2. 🚨 Sora launch imminent. Available in most of the world except Europe and China. For the first time in my life, I'm genuinely thinking about moving to Andorra 😂 REGULATION WILL KILL EUROPE. (source)

Trump and Musk are steering the US toward significant economic and technological growth, and potentially making humanity a multiplanetary species. Meanwhile in the EU, we're busy clicking on cookie banners. The courage and determination of the US are the spirit we need to rekindle at home. Right now, we have a rare opportunity to restructure Europe, follow in the footsteps of the US, and make the West stronger. We need our own @DOGE to undo the nonsensical regulations and cut wasteful spending. Repeal GDPR. Repeal MiCA. Repeal DMA. Repeal the AI Act. Repeal the other baloney regulations. (source)