Wharton prof, accountable AI guy, crypto nerd, tech policy maven, game thinker, MOOC teacher, Jewish panentheist, pescatarian.

Philly, USA
Joined March 2007
On The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with @sharongoldman of Ground Level AI, who brings a journalist's eye AI infrastructure, security, and policy. Listen on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net
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Season 6 of The Road to Accountable AI launches with @robertlevitan, a long-time tech entrepreneur who now chairs the Ethical Tech Project. We talk about why trust matters even more with AI than in the early days of the internet. accountableai.net
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Striking how much more seriously everyone takes Dario Amodei's call for regulation of frontier AI companies than Sam Altman's similar call before Congress a couple years ago. Not saying Anthropic is pure or perfect, but trust matters. And it has to be earned.
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Making AI safer isn't identical to making AI improve more slowly. And it's easier to see how external evaluations do the former than the latter.
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Has anyone explained what pacing AI actually looks like? Other than safety exams and audits? How does anyone prove the counter factual of how fast AI performance would improve in a non-paced world?
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Every five years I post this remembrance of 9/11, sometimes adding a coda. The first sentence remains as true as ever.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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The thread continues with my 2011, 2021, and 2026 updates at xitter.cf/kwerb/status/209839689…
PART 2 OF MY 9/11 REMEMBRANCE
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PART 2 OF MY 9/11 REMEMBRANCE
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The stock market kept going up, despite the financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, and technological innovation continues to be a marvel, most prominently now with the rise of AI.
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But the world feels so broken. My own life has been quite successful over these years, and I personally anticipate the future with confidence and excitement. Yet I worry for my kids, my country, my people. As always, though, we move forward.
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