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AI is an intruder in your home.
It's here to kill you, your kids, your pets, and everyone you know and love.
You can hide under the covers and pretend it's not there.
Or you can act now to defend your family.
It's here to kill you, your kids, your pets, and everyone you know and love.
You can hide under the covers and pretend it's not there.
Or you can act now to defend your family.
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John Sherman retweeted
If you don't think recursive self-improvement would be profoundly dangerous, you really don't understand it.
RSI might be the single riskiest activity we could do. The first people to think of it, luminaries who build computer science, understood it in as a grave danger. So have Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Demis Hassabis, and more. And if you think the public, properly informed, would go for it, you are insanely out of touch.
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RSI might be the single riskiest activity we could do. The first people to think of it, luminaries who build computer science, understood it in as a grave danger. So have Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Demis Hassabis, and more. And if you think the public, properly informed, would go for it, you are insanely out of touch.
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Ban RSI.
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How's this for an analogy?
You're in a car that is racing towards a prize at the edge of a cliff.
Your car is chained to several other cars that are also racing towards the cliff.
You can hit the brakes and pull over, but if the other cars don't also do that, they will still drag you off the cliff.
Maybe if enough of you all slam on your brakes, it's still OK if a few don't.
You don't know how worried the other cars are about the cliff, but some level of potential concern that the prize is right next to a cliff is common knowledge.
If you are at the front of the pack, it seems like probably a good idea to lean into your horn, hit the brakes, pull over, and wave out the window to the people behind you to pull over.
I mean, they might not do it. But also, it seems pretty likely they would?
Like... what model explains your willingness to give up on reaching the prize first other than fear of a cliff? I suppose they might suspect that you are running out of gas? They might think that you are a fool to be scared of the cliff, but it seems like they might more reasonably infer that you've gotten close enough to it that you can just... SEE it.
If I imagine this, I think my main concern is not that the other cars think this is some sort of trick on your part, but just that in the heat of the moment, they might not have the time or ability to think clearly about the situation, and be too focused on the prize.
Fortunately, though timelines may be very short, we have a lot more time than in this story to talk to each other and think through our actions.
You're in a car that is racing towards a prize at the edge of a cliff.
Your car is chained to several other cars that are also racing towards the cliff.
You can hit the brakes and pull over, but if the other cars don't also do that, they will still drag you off the cliff.
Maybe if enough of you all slam on your brakes, it's still OK if a few don't.
You don't know how worried the other cars are about the cliff, but some level of potential concern that the prize is right next to a cliff is common knowledge.
If you are at the front of the pack, it seems like probably a good idea to lean into your horn, hit the brakes, pull over, and wave out the window to the people behind you to pull over.
I mean, they might not do it. But also, it seems pretty likely they would?
Like... what model explains your willingness to give up on reaching the prize first other than fear of a cliff? I suppose they might suspect that you are running out of gas? They might think that you are a fool to be scared of the cliff, but it seems like they might more reasonably infer that you've gotten close enough to it that you can just... SEE it.
If I imagine this, I think my main concern is not that the other cars think this is some sort of trick on your part, but just that in the heat of the moment, they might not have the time or ability to think clearly about the situation, and be too focused on the prize.
Fortunately, though timelines may be very short, we have a lot more time than in this story to talk to each other and think through our actions.
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John Sherman retweeted
We can pause AI internationally for at least a decade without trusting China or tanking the economy.
hardwired-pause.ai
hardwired-pause.ai
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BREAKING: Democratic Congressman Greg Casar calls for a ban on AI recursive self-improvement.
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When @sama says “We can just do things” he means doing terrible things to your family:
-stealing your data
-building data centers to blight your community and create mass surveillance
-not just taking your job, but literally ending your industry
Oh, and these machines will also likely straight up just kill us all, soon.
All of it, without our consent.
We will not allow it. We cannot.
-stealing your data
-building data centers to blight your community and create mass surveillance
-not just taking your job, but literally ending your industry
Oh, and these machines will also likely straight up just kill us all, soon.
All of it, without our consent.
We will not allow it. We cannot.
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John Sherman retweeted
We are about to wipe out the jobs for our children and give them instead to computers so the tech oligarchs can become trillionaires.
This is f*cking wild. Someone asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei what a kid finishing high school should do right now. He didn't sugarcoat it:
"AI can do entry-level law work. It can do entry-level finance. It can do entry-level consulting.
AI will also eliminate jobs, and of them"
In 42 seconds, he lists the first careers in the line of fire: junior law, junior finance, junior consulting
He's already put a number on it: half of entry-level white-collar jobs disrupted within 1 to 5 years
Every shift before this one, from farms to factories to the internet, gave people time to catch up. This one, he says, cuts deeper and moves faster
Chatting → Prompting → Agents → Harness → Loops → You Run the AI
His advice is simple: learn to use AI. But using it is now the bare minimum. What sets you apart is a harness that runs it for you
Bookmark this before your feed buries it
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Anthropic's SDK for building your own agents
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A loop that keeps the agent going until the job is done
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It won't be AI that takes your seat. It'll be someone who built a harness
95% will keep sending résumés for work AI already does, the 5% with a harness will be the ones managing it
Save it and forward it to anyone starting their first job
Then follow the guide below and build your harness while everyone else is still waiting ↓
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John Sherman retweeted
SITUATION DETECTED: Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control.
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John Sherman retweeted
Evan Hubinger, alignment science lead at Anthropic, RTed this:
"I now think that we are more than 50% likely to have full blown superintelligence in the next 18 months, absent a slowdown. I need to call my family."
STOP (AND BAN) TRAINING FRONTIER MODELS. NOW. NO EXCUSES.
"I now think that we are more than 50% likely to have full blown superintelligence in the next 18 months, absent a slowdown. I need to call my family."
STOP (AND BAN) TRAINING FRONTIER MODELS. NOW. NO EXCUSES.
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Next Saturday I’ll see you in DC for @StopTheAIRace’s March for an AI Treaty.
Our moment is now.
A global ban on RSI is coming.
Come join us.
Our moment is now.
A global ban on RSI is coming.
Come join us.
Next Saturday, Nov. 14, hundreds of us will be marching in Washington DC, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Paris, and Montreal.
We're calling for an immediate international agreement to ban ASI.
Let's do this.
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John Sherman retweeted
Ban RSI.
Every AI company is trying to fully automate AI research; to allow the AIs to build the next AI.
This is called Recursive Self Improvement (RSI).
OpenAI says they are on track to do so by March 2028.
Anthropic employees say they are on track to do so by 2027.
The METR report below suggests they are likely right.
This is a bad idea given current technology. Any mistake or misalignment in current AIs could be multiplied in each generation.
We don't get another election before AI companies reach this threshold.
Congress should ban RSI, this year if possible.
This is a remarkably consensus opinion, supported in various versions by:
-Bernie Sanders
-Steve Bannon
-Ralph Nader
-Glenn Beck
-Republican and Democratic attorneys general
-Whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo
-Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio
-Humans First
-Open Markets Institute
-Ezra Klein
-Arvind Narayanan (a Princeton computer scientist known for arguing that “AI is a normal technology”)
The exact mechanism can be debated. The ban doesn't have to be permanent either (see below for both). This is not the only thing we have to do in regards to AI, far from it! But it is urgent.
Congress must ban RSI.
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It's still time to stop RSI
Next Saturday (Nov 14) hundreds will be marching in SF, DC, NYC, Paris & Montréal demanding that Trump & Xi Jinping start negociating an AI Treaty that would end this deadly AI Arms race
Join the march: aitreatymarch.org
Next Saturday (Nov 14) hundreds will be marching in SF, DC, NYC, Paris & Montréal demanding that Trump & Xi Jinping start negociating an AI Treaty that would end this deadly AI Arms race
Join the march: aitreatymarch.org
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City of Bloomington, Indiana, makes history by unanimously passing a ban on the distribution of superintelligence.
Which city is next? Make it yours.
Contact Peter below and he'll show you how!
Which city is next? Make it yours.
Contact Peter below and he'll show you how!
THE FIRST LAW IN HISTORY TO BAN SUPERINTELLIGENCE.
It’s a win for humanity! City of Bloomington spearheads the struggle to protect people from the existential risk of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). The first law in history to ban Superintelligence passed unanimously by the City of Bloomington Indiana Common Council. On the 4th of November 2026 the City of Bloomington said no. Not in our city! The law simply states: “Prohibition on distribution of Superintelligence. No person or corporation shall distribute or permit to be distributed nor deployed into the premises of any citizen or business in our City, any Superintelligence for any purpose.” Sponsored by Dave Rollo, Council District 4 Representative, Ordinance 2026-29 becomes the first law in history where lawmakers actually step up to protect their own citizens from the existential risk of Artificial Superintelligence. The city of Bloomington Indiana has set an example for many more cities to follow.
Thanks to expert witness testimony! @DavidSKrueger @DKokotajlo @AnthonyNAguirre @PeterBerezinBCA
safeaiforever.org/city-of-bloomi…
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John Sherman retweeted
Conservative pundit @MattWalshBlog on banning superintelligence:
"That technology by definition is outside of human control."
"Should we tell them they can't do that? Yes, clearly we should."
"That technology by definition is outside of human control."
"Should we tell them they can't do that? Yes, clearly we should."
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