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What COLLEGE Got Wrong About Plato:

"During class, we were asked to think about AI in the context of Plato’s cave and place it as either the shadows, the prisoners, the objects, or the light. During a vote, the vast majority of students said that AI represented the shadows in the cave."

Happy Democracy Day Stanford! Read our latest:

Not Everyone Deserves a Vote

The Myth of Down Rounds

“Last Tuesday, I grabbed a meal with an esteemed venture capitalist who has spent his career backing student founders. He told me a story of two freshmen at one of Boston’s top universities. They met in a high school. Both took rigorous classes and experiences landing them at an elite Ivy league university, where they spent months working on an idea to take on space logistics. The investor liked them and so did everyone else. Within weeks, they had dozens of meetings booked, verbal commitments in the millions, and partners at several firms urging them to drop out.

Two weeks later, one of the students called him and confessed. The two friends didn’t meet in high school; they met a few weeks ago at orientation. The idea wasn’t something they had been working on for months; it was a ChatGPT prompt asked to produce a deck that made it look as though they had.”
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INVESTIGATION: How Effective Altruists Coordinated the AI Slowdown Narrative

The Stanford Review has investigated evidence that Silicon Valley’s Effective Altruists coordinated coverage of the Hugging Face Incident to garner public support for a government-mandated AI slowdown.

Our findings point to a pre-coordinated effort to control the narrative by artificially preparing actors to respond to a crisis situation.

My Name is Winston Lee:

In the wake of the Cornell 7 affair, I have been caught in the crossfire. One of the seven has the same name as mine, and a number of people have taken to Instagram to send hostile messages to me. One interaction stands out...