Early AI adoption in research used to be called front-running: strategic, forward-looking, a competitive advantage. That framing assumed the terrain was open — that moving early was simply moving smart.
ProPublica’s Approach to AI
The principles and guardrails underlying our practices with artificial intelligence.
AI's Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
The Obvious Case for Open and Local AI — Osaurus
AI is a step change in what one person can do—but the power is being rented back to us. Here's the case for intelligence you can run, inspect, and keep.
Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from...
This paper examines the systemic risks posed by incremental advancements in artificial intelligence, developing the concept of `gradual disempowerment', in contrast to the abrupt takeover...
Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from...
This paper examines the systemic risks posed by incremental advancements in artificial intelligence, developing the concept of `gradual disempowerment', in contrast to the abrupt takeover...
Building Political Superintelligence
Amidst fears of dystopia, a blueprint for how we use AI to reinvent the way we govern ourselves
AI, Ethics, and Society — Home
A Safe Path to Open Weights
Strategic openness can strengthen AI safety and support broader access as defenses and safety science mature.
How the Anthropic saga could threaten American AI dominance
The shutdown of top AI models reverberates abroad.
‘Deskilling’: a dangerous side effect of AI use
Workers are increasingly reliant on the new technology
OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.
The first fully autonomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models has prompted a bipartisan push for stronger oversight over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models.
Open Weights and American AI Leadership
Open weight AI can expand access, strengthen competition, improve security, and help sustain American AI leadership.
"The forces that are now shaping AI are the same forces that turned the open internet into monopolistic platforms, converted peer-to-peer participation into precarious labor, and enclosed the digital commons. They are now threatening to capture and enclose thought itself." osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qahd3_v1/
