Naming is Not Explaining

Two documents crossed my desk this month, in completely different areas, both making the same mistake. The first is mundane: the vocabulary security people use to talk about AI systems. "The model

The Vacuum of Expertise

A few months ago in April, someone described a proposal floated in a government meeting: a ban on AI models above 100 billion parameters. The person relaying it wasn't a technologist.

The Wrong Variable

There is a question everyone asks about AI and one almost nobody asks about us. Will the system be aligned gets asked constantly, in every register, by people who disagree about nearly everything