This week’s show:
In this week’s episode, Hilary Mason from Hiddendoor.co discusses AI powered storytelling, and doesn’t pull punches when talking about the problems in the AI industry, and how we could be building in a different way. https://youtu.be/Blzrzloqv0E?si=wIkKtW2g7yGO_OFu
Tech Week In NYC Was a Big Week
See the demos from the AI TInkerer’s NYC Tech Week Demo Day here.
.A summary post of “The Darkside of AI” where AI in NYC Co-Host Rob May was a panelist
The NY Post summarizes the optimism of the week here.
AI Events this week:
Thought Pieces
Co-Host Rob May analyzes the idea making its way around Washington that the government should take stakes in AI Frontier Labs.
“A government equity stake in frontier AI could, in theory, be an elegant solution: aligning national interests, generating public wealth, and ensuring taxpayers share in the revolution their infrastructure helped build. The logic is sound. The precedents exist.
But it requires exactly the kind of wise and just stewardship that history tells us is the exception, not the rule. It requires a government capable of holding equity without distorting regulation—of being a passive investor while remaining an aggressive watchdog. It requires bureaucracies that can resist the gravitational pull of protecting their portfolio companies from competitive disruption.” read more at https://investinginai.substack.com/p/should-the-government-take-stakes
In Case You Missed It…
Self Improving Agents are AI’s next act - link.
The Meta Hack Shows There is More to AI Security Thank Mythos - link.
NYC Comptroller Mark Levin release a report on how AI might impact NYC - link.
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