Protesting For AI Regulation

There was an AI protest day today, with parallel protests around the world, and our family went to the Boston one: I'm not really a protest person: normally I share my views in writing. But while there's been a lot of writing on the internet about the risk that AI gets us all killed (some of it from me), this can't be an internet-only thing. Way too few people are taking seriously the risk that OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are rapidly building something that could actually cause human extinction. A protest is a literal demonstration that people care, and it expands visibility to the general public. We talked with the kids about whether they wanted to come, or whether I should take them somewhere while Julia went to the protest. All three did want to come, which makes sense: they've been hearing us talk about this at the dinner table and with friends for months, and the risk impacts them at least as much as it does us. We painted some signs: Clementine was not helpful: Mine was a bit…

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