A deal not worth making - Transformer

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Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. And if you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. Sen. Josh Hawley is reportedly circulating a draft AI companions bill. OpenAI issued subpoenas to more nonprofits than previously realized. Anthropic projects annualized revenue of $20-26b next year. But first… AI safety world has been abuzz with one question recently: should they strike a preemption deal? Sen. Ted Cruz continues to push for federal preemption of state AI legislation, as does the AI industry. Recently, influential thinkers Dean Ball and Anton Leicht have argued safety advocates should abandon their broader coalition and cut a deal now. Leicht argues that as AI becomes more salient, child safety and labor concerns will overwhelm worries over frontier AI safety. That, combined with the threat of the recent industry super PACs, means safetyists’ hand will only get weaker. A deal, Leicht and Ball think, is therefo

Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. And if you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. NEED TO KNOW Sen. Josh Hawley is reportedly circulating a draft AI companions bill. OpenAI issued subpoenas to more nonprofits than previously realized. Anthropic projects annualized revenue of $20-26b next year. But first… THE BIG STORY AI safety world has been abuzz with one question recently: should they strike a preemption deal? Sen. Ted Cruz continues to push for federal preemption of state AI legislation, as does the…

A deal not worth making - Transformer

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