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“I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies. Broad tariffs, implemented not just against adversaries but also steadfast allies, will damage the livelihoods of billions of people, create inflation, make the world more fragmented, and leave the U.S. and the” / X https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1910388768487727535
“@elder_plinius @GraySwanAI > domesticate I think that we should learn how to align and even domestic AI systems (e.g., create them to act as “fiduciaries”). My views are expressed in https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1909018544542818404
“The “Helpful, Harmless, Honest” principles for AI when made more precise become fiduciary duties, reasonable care, and requiring that AIs not overtly lie. https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1909493159912194278
“Imports rocketed up in Q1 cause of impending tariffs which made GDP look bad Now big inventory destocking in Q2, temprarily lowering imports with hope tariffs go away That means GDP goes up temporarily, which Trump is def gonna champion as tariffs growing the economy” / X https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1908994833999675783
“The tariffs are much more complicated than they seem Industry and the market are misunderstanding the ramifications We cover everything from fabs to packaging to servers to cables to optical modules to datacenter equipment The impacts differ greatly We also found a huge loophole” / X https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1910255795603963923
“Among other things, this shows the problem with asking questions about AI. The impact of generative AI is very different than traditional machine learning AI, but they are both “AI” resulting in constant confusion in discussion of impacts. Also there is just tons of uncertainty.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1907861876383551819
Pew Research Center on X: “AI experts and public largely see jobs for cashiers, journalists and factory workers at risk due to AI; views differ widely on truck drivers. https://t.co/VfoVGg1fnN https://t.co/BmnqIwgvKA” / X
https://x.com/pewresearch/status/1907856958826139684
““You will see wonders beyond your imagination, nod, think “that’s a cool wonder”, and become inured to it” A thought-provoking essay on reconstructing meaning in a world of AI content, and the role of our agency in finding meaning & wonder for ourselves. https://x.com/emollick/status/1908924545672585242
“🔄 Apparently, the Great Recalibration has begun. We’re now heading into an era where AI is fundamentally redefining the nature of work itself, by forcing a complete reassessment of human value in the workplace, according to a piece in Fast Company. But it might be driven more by” / X https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1908226742310867065
“Who knew Trump had been secretly an anti-capitalist radical degrowther all this time. Well done Greta, well done. *That’s* 5d chess.” / X https://x.com/francoisfleuret/status/1909839428773646797
Gen Z wants rules for using AI https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/gen-z-artificial-intelligence-gallup-feelings
Going beyond open data – increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace | Ai2 https://allenai.org/blog/olmotrace
Longtime Writing Community NaNoWriMo Shuts Down After AI Drama https://gizmodo.com/longtime-writing-community-nanowrimo-shuts-down-after-ai-drama-2000583619
NO FAKES Act Reintroduced With Industry Backing for AI Deepfake Bill https://www.billboard.com/pro/no-fakes-act-reintroduced-congress-support-ai-deepfake-bill/
“Browsing this site and seeing people reply back to AI comments all the time now. Seeing threads and blogs about topics you understand—or things you created—and knowing full well they are entirely hallucinated AI slop. Receiving PRs that are purely BS too. Becoming very common.” / X https://x.com/lateinteraction/status/1910191960167772213
“@BillAckman @realDonaldTrump How can you be so clueless to think it’s about other countrie’s tariffs, or that those even matter big picture? The trade deficits are not due to those tariffs. If all of the other countries dropped their tariffs to zero it would have almost no impact, the average tariff rates” / X https://x.com/wightmanr/status/1909007036869943525
“@ja3k_ In the AI-2027 scenario, GDP growth deviates from long running trends. (Though arguably matches even longer running trends going back 10k years.) It doesn’t suffice to just cite trends, you need some understanding of the situation. IMO the AI trend will break the growth trend.” / X https://x.com/RyanPGreenblatt/status/1909075830824968580
“Listen up: “AI is a tool of all trades today, and will only grow in importance. Frankly, I don’t think it’s feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applying AI in your craft; you are welcome to try, but I want to be honest: I cannot see this working out today, and” / X https://x.com/svpino/status/1909699728545349689
“My 5yo drew this today and it melted my heart. It’s not perfect, but it’s full of love and creativity. AI art can be impressive, but it doesn’t have the same soul as a child’s drawing. https://x.com/cto_junior/status/1909877375351111973
“@karpathy “I don’t wish to downplay the impacts of LLMs in corporations or governments, but at least for the moment and in aggregate across society, they have been significantly more life altering for individuals than they have been for organizations.” Spot on!” / X https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1909315953411694619
“Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify” / X https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/04/1114228/cyberattacks-by-ai-agents-are-coming
US utilities grapple with Big Tech’s massive power demands for data centers | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-utilities-grapple-with-big-techs-massive-power-demands-data-centers-2025-04-07/
“the memory implementation in chatgpt is really good! i’m impressed. i think there’s a bit of uncanniness for me b/c i previously used it as stateless google equivalent, so having the memory retroactively applied by default feels a bit odd. I’m not sure how I want chatgpt” / X https://x.com/sjwhitmore/status/1910759410936504373
“Researchers at UC San Diego demonstrated that AI systems can consistently pass Alan Turing’s famous test of machine intelligence OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 was mistaken for human nearly three-quarters of the time in controlled trials https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913665706721489
“New preprint: we evaluated LLMs in a 3-party Turing test (participants speak to a human & AI simultaneously and decide which is which). GPT-4.5 (when prompted to adopt a humanlike persona) was judged to be the human 73% of the time, suggesting it passes the Turing test (🧵) https://x.com/camrobjones/status/1907086860322480233
OpenAI’s models ‘memorized’ copyrighted content, new study suggests | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/openais-models-memorized-copyrighted-content-new-study-suggests/
Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/judge-doesnt-buy-openai-argument-nyts-own-reporting-weakens-copyright-suit/
“Ripping off someone else’s work shot-for-shot using Gen AI and passing it off as your own is not cool. The 3D camera intro shot was also a blatant from Miklas aka Sur Render who brought this to my attention on threads.” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1907764126719336826
[2503.23674] Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674
Reasoning models don’t always say what they think \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think
“On vibes, I don’t think the currently released Llama 4 models are a big enough increase in capability that they definitively take the lead in open weights models from the main Chinese models (and open weights continues to lag frontier closed). Meta is still training, though.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1908921025057653175
“⚡ The Washington Post draws a crucial parallel: We’re facing an “AI shock” similar to manufacturing’s “China shock” – but hitting knowledge workers. Especially entry-level, white-collar work could get automated. The key difference? “Winning the AI tech competition with other” / X https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1908226743636246875
“I built a web app using @lovable_dev that leverages AI trained in Nigerian Tenancy Law to: ✅ Inform tenants & landlords about their rights ⚖️ Connect users with real lawyers for dispute resolution 💰 Enable rent payments & property management https://x.com/boysod_/status/1906760339158343764
“HiDream-I1-Dev is the new leading open-weights image generation model, overtaking FLUX1.1 [pro] in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena! HiDream, the Chinese company behind @vivago_ai, has just open-sourced their HiDream-I1 family of models under the MIT License. This impressive https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1909624716111045115
“American open-source has fallen. It’s all on Google and China bros now 🫠 https://x.com/scaling01/status/1909165768874336620
[2504.01990] Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01990
Democratic US senators question Google and Microsoft’s AI deals | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/democratic-us-senators-question-google-microsofts-ai-deals-2025-04-08/
“This paper, written before GPT-4o native image generation, suggests that AI is already good enough to have a massive impact on both marketing and jobs in the field. On a variety of tests, AIs outperformed human freelancers in marketing image creation, including in click throughs. https://x.com/emollick/status/1909227457929937298
“computer scientists thought they would replace all jobs with AI turns out that they are only replacing themselves lol” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1909633093658386587
“📈 There’s a statistic from my reads this week that stays with me: Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn’s CPO, shares to Jeremy Kahn that 70% of skills used in most jobs will change by 2030. Not jobs disappearing, but transforming. And he calls out bad leadership: “If in one year’s time, you” / X https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1908226740822171756
“another thing i disagree with lots of AI people about: training large models is not inherently scientifically valuable! e.g. training that huge grok model killed lots of trees, and taught us nothing so many discoveries could’ve been made on 100M param language models -” / X https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1908994251909738682
““Your Tesla has better AI than any military aircraft.” — Palmer Luckey, CEO of Andruil, who earned a standing ovation at TED today. “Countries only go to war when they disagree who the victor will be.” “We have to prove we have the capacity to win.” “Manufacturing capacity is https://x.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1909726001770512473
Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, but riders will be able to opt out | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/waymo-may-use-interior-camera-data-to-train-generative-ai-models-sell-ads/
The artifact isn’t the art: Rethinking creativity in the age of AI https://www.freethink.com/opinion/studio-ghibli-chatgpt-creativity
Major publishers call on the US government to ‘Stop AI Theft’ | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/644612/major-publishers-stop-ai-theft-ad-campaign
“How complex are global supply chains? Of the 83 nonradioactive elements, at least 70 of them are used in phones: 84% of all stable elements. I say “at least” as we don’t know for sure- likely no single person on Earth can tell you all of the mined materials that go into a phone. https://x.com/emollick/status/1909857273972678781
