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you have to read this new feature from @pranshuverma threats to freedom of expression and the evolution of social media as a weapon https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/16/stop-antisemitism-twitter-zionism-israel/

New from me for @washingtonpost
This fall, a small number of senior leaders approached the board of OpenAI with concerns about chief executive Sam Altman.

Altman — a revered mentor, prodigious start-up investor and avatar of the AI revolution — had been psychologically abusive, the employees alleged.

..The new complaints triggered the review of Altman’s conduct, and were a major factor that led to his firing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/08/open-ai-sam-altman-complaints

My latest dispatch from the AI boom for the Washington Post looks at a billionaire-backed movement to push concerns about "existential risks" around AI from the fringes of tech culture into the mainstream. Recently tech philanthropists have helped fund about 20 student-led “AI Safety” clubs at elite colleges like Stanford, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Columbia as part of an effort to recruit idealistic talent to focus their time on the speculative risk that AI could kill us all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/05/ai-apocalypse-college-students