Centrism is inherently conservative because it sees change as bad, even when that change is undeniably progress.

“Colonisation always comes bearing shiny gifts. But AI is colonisation of a kind few of us can even imagine. It’s capitalism’s final destination.” www.equator.org/articles/aru...

Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

equator.org

Went to a grocery store, and saw that they had a full shelf of sardines. I’m so happy 🥲 I will be coming back to the U.S. with a full suitcase!

I’ve made it to Abuja and look forward to participating in the Build 2026 conference! buildconference.ai Tomorrow, I’ll speak on a panel session reflecting on Nigeria’s National AI Strategy and exchanging insights on what it’ll take to operationalize effective oversight.

the wonderful thing about the chinese open weight companies is that you never have to read about anything except the product and services they offer

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · last wk.

This is a researcher at Anthropic. Some of these people have lost their minds! What is mainlining Claude all day doing to them?

AI, as a political project, is primarily focused on your devaluation. Hope this helps.

This is the same company that is apparently supposed to be trusted with 3rd-party AI evaluation and auditing services 🤦🏾‍♀️

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

Glad I've been teleworking over the past few days, because multiple congressional offices (including my own) and buildings have received suspicious packages/letters recently 😅

"AI does not have intent or desire, AI would not be able to access physical institutions in order to set off a bioweapon, and no research to date has demonstrated the extreme extinction-level capabilities to warrant these warnings." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I've Worked in AI for a Decade. Here's Why I'm Not Scared of It

Rumman Chowdhury, former United States Science Envoy for AI in the Biden Administration, on why she doesn't buy the AI doomer rhetoric.

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“It will be up to civil society to remind elected leaders that AGI/ASI is far from a certainty, and that we shouldn’t base policy decisions on the assumption that it is inevitable, or even desirable.” www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

techpolicy.press

“…effective governance of emerging technologies depends on people to connect how these systems are built with how they are overseen.” cacm.acm.org/opinion/work...

“African companies and governments are racing to deploy AI systems built in the U.S. and China. But many nations lack the ability to independently test whether those systems are safe for their populations…” restofworld.org/2026/african...

Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say

African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.

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I’m still an HCI researcher at heart, so this definitely sounds about right 🤣

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

“There is no established path showing that today’s AI systems will surpass the smartest humans, much less a scientific basis for calculating the likelihood that such systems will destroy humanity.” thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.

thebulletin.org

Please learn to disagree with Black women without questioning our expertise

To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.

Finished my first week in the U.S. Senate, and in one of the many policy proposals I was asked to review, I had to point out how the billions of dollars being spent on AI safety research by effective altruism organizations poses a serious conflict of interest.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Even more depressing than the knowledge that congress is now overrun by effective altruist and overall TESCREAL cult member staffers, is the number of billionaires in these cults that are going to be created by the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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Truly despicable!

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake”

The Nigerian president released an AI-generated video to address the country on Independence Day this past Thursday 🤦🏾‍♀️ Many people don’t know that when the President of Gabon released an AI-generated video after not being seen for a few months in 2019, a coup happened shortly after.

It’s very concerning that Cornell hasn’t sent any emails to alumni regarding the fraternity rape investigation. I’m getting most of my updates from our student newspaper and Reddit.

Started my fellowship in the Senate earlier this week, and my dad doesn’t understand why I don’t have my own office (this is my first job in D.C. where I haven’t had my own space). He also asked why they didn’t put “Dr.” on my ID 🤣

"The idea that the ruling Communist Party could lose control over a technology is almost unfathomable. The authorities have successfully policed other potentially destabilizing technologies before, most notably the internet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...

The Surprising Reasons China Is Skeptical of A.I. Safety Calls

In China, A.I. doomsday warnings can feel distinctly Western or like a ploy to stop Chinese A.I. companies from trying to overtake their U.S. rivals.

nytimes.com

Really glad someone is writing about this! I instantly knew the “National Academy of Artificial Intelligence” was a scam. I’ve also been repeatedly contacted by the “American Society for AI” over the past year, and had to block many people associated with that organization on LinkedIn.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last mo.

SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

Had a brief, but nice trip to Brown University! My first time in Rhode Island, and I look forward to coming back.

I got an invitation to a policy roundtable that had interesting words like “practical worldbuilding”, “abundance”, and an organization that works on “welfare of future sentient beings”… Looked up funding info for the hosting organizations, and of course they’re funded by major effective altruists 😬

Last week, I shared my perspectives on emerging data center resistance in South Africa with Rest of World and realized I had much more to write on the subject, so here’s a new edition of Digital Cognoscente! chinasa.substack.com/p/scaling-re...

Scaling Responsible Data Center Stewardship Across Africa

Perspectives on data center expansion in Africa and what governments must do to encourage sustainable growth.

chinasa.substack.com

Transitioning from researching AI governance over the past four years to now being directly embedded in AI politics will be quite interesting!

"There are robust, decades-old legal frameworks that give companies that make AI systems a powerful set of incentives to be responsible stewards...Characterizing AI as an existential threat to humanity opens the door to undermining those frameworks." www.brookings.edu/articles/is-...

Is the AI existential threat real—and can regulatory action prevent it? | Brookings

Scholars from across Brookings address the risks of AI and what regulatory actions are necessary to prevent them.

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Placed within my first choice Congressional office! Looking forward to what I’m sure will be an exciting year working on AI policy 🏛️🤖