Casey Newton
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.
Their wordsNo matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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Their wordsit's maybe the most important media platform in the world, and also one that journalists have found very difficult to crack.
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Their wordsNPR listeners have long known what modern podcast listeners only realized more recently - that storytelling often hits way harder when it's delivered by the human voice.
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Their wordsAI companies make for flawed messengers on this subject: they can reasonably be accused of marketing, of blame-shifting, of regulatory capture, and more.
↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Public sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.
Their wordsBut public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.
↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI believe the researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it - and are quitting, in protest, jobs that would make them rich.
↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
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AI model capabilities have already advanced beyond humanity's ability to understand or control them.
Their wordsLooking at the METR report, it seems clear that AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them.
↗The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thoughtplatformer.news 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut bad as a slowdown might be for their portfolios, the current pace of development might be worse for the rest of us.
↗The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thoughtplatformer.news 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut I think there have been enough studies now isolating those variables that show that AI is directly responsible for a lot of this job loss.
↗How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her jobplatformer.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI actually think the opposite, which is that there are going to be many more software engineers than even the rosiest current predictions, and that software engineers will take over these other jobs: legal, marketing, accounting.
↗How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her jobplatformer.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI don't think that universal basic income on its own will address the gap that's widening.
↗How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her jobplatformer.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWhether American teenagers should be harassed after 10 p.m. by engagement-baiting push notifications ought to be a matter for Congress, not the social media cartel.
↗Meta settles with the states over child safety failuresplatformer.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt's true that Meta's rivals do largely employ the same cocktail of video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to continuously derail their users' attention.
↗Meta settles with the states over child safety failuresplatformer.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsjudges and juries have begun to accept the argument that platform design is not covered by either of those, and companies can be punished for harmful features.
↗Meta settles with the states over child safety failuresplatformer.news 3rd of 3 in this piece