Assistant professor @ASU_SFIS. Director, Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab. Former fellow @umichmedicine Cardiology, @fordschool. PhD from @mccNYU
Tempe, AZ
Joined January 2015
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THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE NLCS BOUND!
ALT A graphic announcing the Dodgers are NLCS bound with cutouts of Tarik Skubal, Teoscar Hernández, Kyle Tucker, Edwin Díaz, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Max Muncy, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Kiké Hernández.
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Amber Guyger, the ex-Dallas police officer sentenced to a decade in prison for the 2018 murder of Botham Jean after she 'mistook Jean's apartment for her own,' has been granted parole
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We’ve graduated to “companies are people” to “company products are people.”
As for actual people’s rights? Anthropic’s partnerships with Palantir+ building of surveillance infra tells you what they REALLY think about that while seeding mass hysteria about their fictional gods.
ALT Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
NEW: Dario Amodei has said that AI systems "may be deserving of important rights." Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI may be "justified in going rogue." Experts at Google and OpenAI worry about a digital "slave trade." So do some government officials.
Once relegated to science fiction, the idea of "AI welfare" has become shockingly mainstream at some of the most powerful companies in the world. It is changing the way AI research is conducted and the way models are programmed. And critics say these changes have raised the odds of all kinds of catastrophic scenarios—including the ones these companies are warning about.
I spent months investigating the frontier labs and AI "safety" experts seeking to regulate AI. What I found was a profoundly anti-human ideology that would alarm the average citizen and could determine the future of a world-altering technology.🧵
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NEW exclusive from me:
Health officials moved money out of the Office of Minority Health to help pay for the ballooning costs of RFK Jr.'s security
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Like I said, here we have a company creating viruses and malware but gets to market it’s products as machine gods and redirect the narrative away from accountability and being held criminally liable to making themselves sound like concerned citizens, with everyone parroting their CEOs 🙄
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Trump Is Reportedly Sending Israel $2.8 Billion in Bombs. You’re Paying for Them
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*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession:
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.” notus.org/immigration/baby-a…
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In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily.
It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress.
The appearance of resistance gives ICE grounds to use lethal force.
These gloves will kill people.
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Don’t want to give the Victorian doctors too much credit but I just went to the seaside and it lowkey did cure my ill humors
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AI is now answering 911 calls in New Orleans.
The AI handles incoming calls and is supposed to analyze and prioritize the calls so that if multiple people phone in about the same incident, the chatbot will handle the repetitive calls about the same incident.
Critics warn that the automatic speech recognition systems may cause problems, the AI may hold hidden biases, and that human 911 responders are needed.
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Money out of politics.
Money in your pocket.
Medicare for All.
Michigan...
We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
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The dystopia is too dystopian
Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson kptv.com/2026/08/04/oregon-s…
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Last year half of CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program staff were fired. This is the group responsible for investigating cruise ship outbreaks. The cuts were made despite the fact that US taxpayers don’t pay for this team. The cruise ship industry does.
