Hello and welcome back to TGIF, where we do news summaries.
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And a quick note: We’ve published so much on the Cornell 7 this week that I’m skipping it today.
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We will dive into all that next week.
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For now, this will have to suffice.
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America got a website!:
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Joe Gebbia, Chief Design Officer of America, co-founder of Airbnb, has given this country its first proper website.
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It’s America.gov.
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And it’s a search bar powered by AI, so you ask it things and it pulls from about 29,000 government websites.
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It also has helpful suggestions like, “Which military service is best for me?”
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I tried to come up with Magic 8 Ball questions I had for America (Where is my closest polling place?
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R u racist? Will Bryan Johnson live forever? Do you want me here or should I leave?), but my mind went blank.
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I don’t have any questions for America, more like musings and the occasional yell.
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Still, it’s very nice-looking.
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The more we see the government as a consumer product, the more we will demand it work and be cheaper and tax us less.
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This website says “How can I help you, citizen,” and I like that.
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The more it looks like Uber Eats, the angrier we will be at what’s missing and damaged or wrong, and how long it took to get here.
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It’s a thing we give money to in exchange for services, like roads or fire engines, and now search engines.
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AI summit delivers some great body language:
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All the Big Tech leaders came together with President Donald J. Trump to sign a “morally binding” pact that they won’t build artificial intelligence that kills us all.
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I love that.
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Call it what it is: a pinky swear for boys.
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I feel as though morally binding is another term for not legally binding, if you get me.
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It’s like if someone says they’re “morally monogamous” in this marriage, so I immediately understand they are cheating on each other.
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Here’s the president:
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“The biggest people in the world signed that and I signed it as president.
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And: “I’m seeing tremendous self-policing.”
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Again: Self-policing means absolutely no policing.
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This meeting of kings was organized by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Now, on the one hand, morally binding and self-policing are both completely fake things that mean utterly nothing.
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At best, that means nothing.
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At worst, it means our tech leaders are about to collectively get a new set of younger, hotter wives.
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On the other hand, do I actually want the government regulating AI?
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The man who gathered everyone together for this high-tech summit of the future, Speaker Mike Johnson, literally doesn’t believe in evolution.
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Sorry, he believes in morally binding evolution.
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Intelligent self-design, if you get my drift.
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I’m not faulting the speaker for that, per se; I’m just suggesting that perhaps our government bodies are not the best group to decide complex regulations for developing technologies.
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Maybe it’d be better if AI regulated our government.
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It already made such a good website for us.
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I think AI would make a nice president.
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The best part of the summit was watching Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei trying to act normal.
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