Nicolae Rusan

I want to reflect on this passage from OpenAI’s Dan Selsam, shared by Daniel Kokotajlo: I want the glorious renaissance future as much as anyone. I have worked for it, however tortuously, my whole career. It breaks my heart to see the potential in sight and forgo it, but the argument—that if we get there by growing models rather than engineering them, we will lose everything in the end—seems very strong to me. I am still wrestling with it and its staggering implications.

Clay, a Canadian-founded go-to-market AI startup based in New York City, has closed a $115-million USD (approximately $159 million CAD) Series D round that values the company at $7.1 billion USD. The financing was led by Wellington and included participation from Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, Meritech, Sequoia and others.

I’m going to start writing up more policy ideas that I think could meaningfully reduce the risk of AI takeovers in the short term. Some of these will admittedly be bad ideas, or ideas that become impractical as soon as you try to turn them into real laws. But I think it’s useful to make the shape of possible interventions more concrete. A bad proposal can still reveal a better adjacent one.