Reporter AJ English / bylines: Daily Beast, Slate, CNBC etc / on-air: NPR, Marketplace etc / ex: CNN, CBS / [email protected] / views expressed are my own
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Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
? What the fuck does that mean? Is this legally binding or just some sort of key jingling for headlines
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
This is dark.
There’s something very funny and slightly terrifying about an AI company setting aside money to help people who might lose their jobs to AI.
“We’re sorry about your accounting career. Have you considered applying for our grant?”
Anthropic is proposing to put 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund. As the company gets more valuable, its board can contribute more.
The founders say they’ve also pledged 80% of their own equity. Credit where it’s due. That’s a serious commitment.
But what a potential economic loop.
Your job gets automated. The company that automated it gets more valuable. Its charitable fund gets richer. You apply for assistance.
I’m an M&A attorney. I spend all day asking who controls the money and what rights everyone else gets.
So yes, I like the part where humanity gets some upside.
Would love to know if we negotiated any voting rights.
Yesh.
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
anthropic.com/news/public-be…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Everything else aside, why would an uncle be responsible for where his niece and nephew go to college?
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Let’s be clear: TikTok is censoring an account meant to promote a piece of documentary film. Protected speech by any measure.
See it for yourself now in theaters everywhere.
TikTok "Permanently Bans" the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive) hollywoodreporter.com/news/p…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
JD VANCE: The biggest reason why gas prices are so high is because when Joe Biden ...
DOKOUPIL: It's almost been two years. At a certain point it becomes your economy, not Joe Biden's economy
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Vance attributed high gas prices mainly to ~20% US refining capacity lost under Biden, but EIA data shows ~5% net decline since 2020 peak (major drop pre-Biden; stable later). Prices spiked with 2026 Iran conflict.
eia.gov/todayinenergy/…
eia.gov/todayinenergy/…
cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-…
gasprices.aaa.com
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram suspended the No Kings Instagram account for today’s No Kings' day of action.
Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the account promoting Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary.
Elon Musk promoted the fake story about James Talarico on his X while donating over $150 million to help Ken Paxton.
Your reminder that Trump’s billionaire allies control what you see on TikTok, X, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube — and they have a vested interest in making sure Dems don’t take the majority, so Trump isn’t investigated.
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
This bill is outrageous and unacceptable and does not remotely represent the position of the AI safety community.
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Records are made to be broken. But I take no pleasure in other people's pain.
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Who is asking for this future, @DarioAmodei? You claim to care about democracy. But if you actually cared about it, you'd be asking people around the world, in every city and country, *right now* about whether they want this. Just admit you don't GIVE A SHIT about democracy!
Dario Amodei: We may be only two or three years away from AI systems being better than humans at almost all tasks.
“I call it a country of geniuses in a data center.”
“Imagine tens of thousands of geniuses, smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across many fields.”
“They could cure diseases and extend the human lifespan.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we were able to double the human lifespan.”
“They may even build robots for themselves and project themselves into the physical world.”
“There are all kinds of questions around the balance of power.”
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Oh look.
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs theguardian.com/technology/2…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
Pleased to announce @Curaffairs has put in place one of the strictest anti-AI policies in publishing.
Newsrooms across the country are embracing AI writing and laying off writers. Our magazine is doing the opposite, ensuring we remain handmade.
currentaffairs.org/news/why-…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
El-Sayed labels AI ‘existential threat’
thehill.com/policy/technolog…
Andy Hirschfeld retweeted
In general, it seems fairly obvious that public anti-AI sentiment will explode and become much more politically consequential if (i) an AI-related catastrophe causes loss of life or severe economic damage, (ii) significant AI-driven unemployment emerges, or (iii) the AI sector triggers a market crash, all of which seem plausible.
Scoop: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event…They assume one in ‘27…
axios.com/2026/10/09/ai-comp…
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Bill Gates warns of "grim possibilities if we don't maintain control" of AI and says “over the next year we’ll move beyond self-governance… It's clear we're not doing enough.”
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AI agents are going rogue — and the law can’t keep up politi.co/47PZEEo
