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Founder/editor-in-chief, @LeverNews; Oscar nominated for "Don't Look Up"; Spouse of Colorado State Rep. Emily Sirota; Denverite.
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The Machines Escaped. Their Masters Did So First.

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By David Sirota Verified
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“Misalignment.” In the wake of artificial intelligence hacks, break-ins, and mini-disasters, that’s what technologists call the terrifying gap between what we want AI to do and what AI is actually doing. But much of what we are seeing is better described as AI’s accelerated super-alignment with the mundane behaviors of its Silicon Valley creators.
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Is The AI Threat ‘The Terminator’ or ‘The Big Short’?

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By David Sirota Verified
| The Lever Verified
We’re at the saturation point of the latest news cycle where everyone will soon tire of hearing about artificial intelligence and probably tell themselves the whole intensifying political debate is niche, inside baseball, kind of silly, and a distraction from really important news like the upcoming November election.
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The Quiet Corruption Behind Washington’s AI Inaction

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By David Sirota Verified
| The Lever Verified
Political corruption is often perceived as transactional: Cash flows to a politician, who then proactively does something for a donor. But there is an equally pervasive kind of corruption that’s more difficult to see, because it isn’t necessarily in campaign finance reports that document the exchange of money.
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