The Biden administration has committed to radical ideology over innovation, choosing to weaponize a previously neutral executive agency in its battle to overregulate nascent AI technology before it even reaches the marketplace. This is the largest leap so far in empowering a coalition opposed to the right ordinary Americans have to their speech and their work.
Directed by the Biden AI executive order signed last October, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently expanded its “AI Safety Institute,” notably naming Paul Christiano as head of AI safety. Christiano, a leader of “Effective Altruism” — the movement popularized by Sam Bankman-Fried — believes in a “50/50” chance AI causes the extinction of all of humanity. This marks the latest in the broader infiltration of
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