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Some professional news: after four and a half years at Vox, I’ll be joining @coeff_giving as a senior writer and editor, with a focus on global catastrophic risks.
Bryan Walsh
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Senior writer and editor @coeff_giving. Author of END TIMES. Email bryan.walsh@coefficientgiving.org
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It seems odd to frame a piece about AI safety now with a dismissive "no need to panic about Skynet" subhed, given that the top AI safety expert interviewed in the story — Yoshua Bengio — says his biggest risk is "rogue AIs... which are very powerful and can do really bad things"
The summer of 2026 was a clear turning point in the AI narrative—with some AI agents going “rogue” and industry insiders suggesting that advanced AI might kill us all in the next decade. But is any of this real? wired.com/story/the-ai-s…View quoted post on X
I find this questionable — to claim that policy advocacy for transfat elimination "saves a life" at less than $5, every life saved needs to be directly attributable to the funders. Seems unlikely. The lives saved numbers on bed nets aren't perfect, but they are better tested.
Bed nets save a life for an estimated $3k to $5.5k, but for donors who support trans fat elimination, the estimated cost can be less than $5 per life saved.View quoted post on X
In a new op-ed, I break down why, even though bed nets are a great buy, policy change is an even better buy. It's available to read when you create a free account.
philanthropy.com/opinion/how-ne…
Staggering sums can sometimes fall below expectations
Breaking News: Anthropic set a price range for its I.P.O. that values the A.I. company at up to $1.4 trillion, a staggering sum. nyti.ms/4kHKc4XView quoted post on X
Really enjoyed @emollick's post on exploring Fable 5.2, and especially, this bit about how the AI agents that were used to build 3D world's exemplified that peak of collective human intelligence: a bureaucracy oneusefulthing.org/p/fable-52-and…
