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Billy Perrigo

@billyperrigo.bsky.social

Tech correspondent at Time magazine. https://billyperrigo.com/about-me/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · last yr.

A big humble thank you to ‪@time.com ‬and @billyperrigo.bsky.social for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️ time.com/collections/...

How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate

Whittaker was forced to respond to a political firestorm after a White House blunder turned private chats into a national crisis

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Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · last yr.

New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips

Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of War, Riots, Election Fraud

Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.

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Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · last yr.

Several experts told TIME’s @andrewrchow.bsky.social and @billyperrigo.bsky.social that if videos like these were shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, it could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence. time.com/7290050/veo-...

Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of Riots, Election Fraud, Conflict

Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.

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Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo.bsky.social · last yr.

LLMs are often described as a 'black box.' But scientists are making progress in building tools to understand how they work on the inside. In a new paper from Anthropic, scientists reveal a tool that can discover "circuits," essentially small algorithms, inside Claude: time.com/7272092/ai-t...

How This Tool Could Decode AI’s Inner Mysteries

Even the creators of LLMs don't know exactly how they work. But scientists are making progress in finding out

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Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo.bsky.social · last yr.

This is some deeply unethical shit. Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries. Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs? To find accurate info? To their political beliefs? No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...

Our experiment on the value of European news content

We launched an experiment measuring the value of European news results for Google which showed that European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenu…

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Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo.bsky.social · last yr.

Exclusive: A new poll shows the British public wants much tougher AI rules: ➡️87% want to block release of new AIs until developers can prove they are safe ➡️63% want to ban AIs that can make themselves more powerful ➡️60% want to outlaw smarter-than-human AIs time.com/7213096/uk-p...

Exclusive: Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI

A new poll shows the British public wants far stricter AI rules than its government does.

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Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute. It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers. My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...

Inside the U.K.’s Bold Experiment in AI Safety

Researchers are identifying current and future dangers within AI models away from the conflicts of interest they’d face in the industry

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Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo.bsky.social · 2y ago

The authors told me they considered not releasing this paper for this reason (so as for it not to show up in future training datasets) but decided that would result in collective unpreparedness for this failure mode -- an even worse outcome

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wonder if the alignment faking behavior in claude (www.anthropic.com/research/ali...) can be attributed via influence functions (www.anthropic.com/research/inf...) to LessWrong posts about deceptive alignment. We've given it the script for what we don't want it to do.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2y ago

Whatever the use cases for all these AI video generation tools you can 100% guarantee it'll result in a flood of AI generated swill on social media platforms. You think your Facebook feed is unbearable now, just wait until it's moving.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if Paxton felt emboldened to do this because he thought it would be easier to go after a small independent media company, which makes this subpoena even more callous. We should all hope 404 prevails here because, otherwise, we are all more vulnerable.

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media's reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database. Our lawyers formally objected to subpoena. You can read both the subpoena and the objection here: www.404media.co/404-media-ob...

Billy Perrigo@billyperrigo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glad to see 60 minutes reporting on the continued suffering of Kenyan AI workers. Although it would have been nice for them to credit my reporting...

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️