Research and policy for @aibm_org Formerly @StAndrewsPhil & @dartmouth

Joined November 2020
Had so much fun judging at the @EthicsCup nationals — heartening to see so much high quality philosophy at a high school level!
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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I ran a simulation built on 700 million real MTA trips. It said to close the 3rd Avenue L stop. stopthestop.com
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I think I’ve been slow boiled a bit here. It’s taken me like three watches to really consider that all the tiny little details and motifs and ideas are actually from an AI, woven into a cohesive whole in a deliberate way. Like holy shit Claude has figured out amateur creativity.
Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far
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In the early 2000s, people hung out with friends on a given Monday or Tuesday about as often as people in the post-Covid world do on a Saturday 🥴😭🫠
Interesting: 20 years ago, Friday night was the start of the weekend and a big night for seeing friends. Now it looks like any other weeknight. Why do we think people don't hang with friends on Fridays anymore? journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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This is a marvelous last column from Ross -- and a reminder of why we'll miss him so much: nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opini…
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The liberal reflex to launder moral arguments as biological facts drives me crazy. nytimes.com/2026/08/06/opini…
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Serious question: How do manosphere intellectuals deal with the fact that the greatest living philosopher is a woman?
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Is there a gender gap in marijuana use? Turns out, yes. 1 in 10 men are near-daily users compared to 1 in 16 women… and the gap widens the heavier the use. Interesting new data from @aibm_org: aibm.org/research/marijuana-…
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The frontier AI labs have built extraordinary things and I’m in awe of their accomplishments. But if you compare your technology to nuclear weapons, predict that it will disemploy tens of millions of people, and announce the invention of a digital skeleton key to ~exfiltrate top secret information from government systems and gain control over critical infrastructure including military infrastructure~ I genuinely have a hard time seeing how this doesn’t end with some form of govt nationalization or sanction or something weirder. I can’t predict the evolution of this technology well enough to know what I’m rooting for here, but just adding 2 and 2 makes it hard to see how or why we’d continue to treat these companies like they’re ordinary private sector firms.
maybe this is not yet clear, so let me state it plainly: as of right now Anthropic, and really a small number of individuals at Anthropic, has the capacity to directly attack and cause major damage to the United States Government, China, and generally global superpowers. government agencies like the NSA do not have internal models or defense capabilities that outclass frontier models. if they chose to do so, they could likely exfiltrate top secret information from government systems, gain control over critical infrastructure including military infrastructure, sabotage or modify communications between members of government at the highest level, and potentially carry on activities for some time without detection. the thing about having access to a huge number of zerodays your adversaries don't know about is it gives you a massive asymmetric advantage. they did not exploit this to gain power or destabilize the world order. they publicly released the information that they had these capabilities and worked to mitigate these flaws. you should be grateful american frontier labs have proven themselves remarkably trustworthy and concerned with the public good. but it's critical you understand we are in a new regime. private entities now have power that directly rivals and impacts the government's monopoly on influence and violence. and anthropic is certainly not the only one, there's little chance OpenAI's internal models are far behind. this trend will accelerate on virtually every dimension, not slow down. my prediction for how it plays out is the relatively imminent seizure and nationalization of labs by the US government, sometime over the next two years. it's very tough for me to see how they accept the existence of this kind of threat. but this adds a whole new class of governance issues, as then we've handed these extremely wide-reaching capabilities from private entities to public ones.
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What does yesterday's court decision about Meta and YouTube signal about potential liability/addictiveness of sports betting and prediction market apps? AIBM's @andersknospe gives his reflections.
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Only Nixon could go to china. Only a socialist could cut government waste.
Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.
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The age-old struggle of "I just have to lock in" (this time, John Adams) – at Manhattan, NY
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I can't say the same.
Marked safe from having been named in the Epstein Files.
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If you work in AI policy or if you comment on the trajectory of AI in a way that could plausibly affect public-policy outcomes, please consider whether your commentary over the last 6-12 months would have prepared someone who listened to you well for Moltbook. Consider whether someone who had seriously listened to your commentary about, say, GPT-5 and whether it indicated stagnation in AI, would be surprised, or relatively unsurprised, by Moltbook. And Claude Code for that matter. Think hard about this! It is a key barometer for whether you are doing a good job.
I would also like to register a piece of _advice_: If you work on AI issues, treat this as a fire drill. Think about, for good or ill, the ways in which you have or have not tracked and responded to this well today, and figure out what to do better next time.
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Sports betting is now integrated into how young men experience sports. @aibm_org researchers, @oso, @jonathandcohen1 and @roundrobin42 published “Sensible Sports Betting: A Policy Framework”—nine approaches to reduce harm without prohibition. Give it a read: aibm.org/policy/how-sports-b…
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Excited to launch our new Sports Betting Policy Hub at @aibm_org with @Arnold_Ventures. Sports betting has exploded & bets grew 30-fold to $148B in 2024. Young men see the harms: among men under 30, those saying it’s bad for society jumped from 22% to 47% in three years. aibm.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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I'm a firm believer in trying to understand those who see the world differently than I do. Decent, reasonable people can disagree on a lot. But I have no idea how to engage with someone who thinks like this. We might as well be living on different planets.
This lesbian agitator gave her life to protect 68 IQ Somali scammers who couldn’t give less of a shit about her. The most disgraceful and humiliating end a person could possibly meet.
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Scott Galloway puts his money where his passions are. He and @RichardvReeves have transformed the discourse around boys in recent years, in ways that are already helping us all to raise good young men. Go @profgalloway! Support aibm.org/ I do.
Christmas came early for @aibm_org! Incredibly fortunate to call @profgalloway both a friend and an ally in this work. This generous gift will allow us to scale our impact; conducting more research and turning it into action for men and boys. Thanks, Scott!
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