@KateAronoff

staff writer @NewRepublic đź“š Overheated @BoldTypeBooks + A Planet To Win @VersoBooks

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Joined July 2012
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Surreal that you can now just go ~*buy*~ the book I've worked on in some way for 5+ years, on what's fueled the climate crisis and what it might look like to salvage a more democratic, abundant future Please do buy it, and enjoy poking around in my brain! hachettebookgroup.com/titles…
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Last fall, the CEO of the country's largest "quartz" countertop manufacturer donated to FL Sen. Ashley Moody A few months later she introduced a bill that would keep his company from getting sued by workers who cut quartz & get sick with a horrific, sometimes fatal lung disease
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I wrote about Sam Altman’s media blitz, and why I think it’s generally unhelpful to dwell on whether a CEO is a bad person, even if they are a bad person newrepublic.com/article/2162…

Sam Altman’s Personal Feelings About AI Are a Huge Distraction

It’s useful for tech CEOs if the public is talking about their opinions and moral character instead of talking about regulating their companies.

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what could go wrong
Tavus
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Most AI can tell you it's happy for you. Griffin shows it, in its voice, its face and its gestures, all at once. Rudy just got promoted, and you don't need the sound on to know how Griffin feels about it.
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why'd they have to make it a redhead
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These people shouldn't be allowed to regulate themselves nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…
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The question isn't whether LLMs are conscious but whether we should trust people who say they believe they are building mass extinction machines and/or a slave army and keep showing up to work every day to keep doing that
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Sick of people pretending these guys have an interesting/novel/defensible moral economy!!
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Trump Just Pledged to Let AI Companies Do Whatever They Want

Trump and the tech CEOs have a lot in common—not least their sense of total impunity.

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Astute comment at the end of this that a big problem in the world of voluntary corporate accounting/standards is that it always had as a backdrop a belief that binding regulations might come in the future. And they are looking less likely. newrepublic.com/article/2157…

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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I wrote about why dismantling fuel efficiency standards may not actually be good for a US auto industry that is rapidly losing ground against more fuel efficient cars newrepublic.com/article/2159…

Trump Isn’t Helping Out the Auto Industry. He’s Helping to Tank It.

The Trump administration is touting its recent rollback of Biden-era fuel efficiency standards as a win for American car manufacturers. It couldn’t have things more backward.

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If you are for some reason interested in the perils of industries being allowed to self-regulate then please enjoy this ~3,000 word story I just wrote about case where that is actively going really, really bad
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Ikea shouldn't get to decide what emissions are newrepublic.com/article/2157…
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Do we think Kash Patel has read that Peter Singer essay
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Is there a good, thorough piece by someone who's not insane answering the question of why Anthropic & OpenAI employees and execs keep building stuff they think could kill everyone? e.g. sifting through the ideological, religious & political economy reasons
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrimSep 17
They drove @aaronsw to death for much less than this and he had legal access to the material and was downloading it for a non-commercial use. Still, the feds prosecuted the hell out of him, a case only dropped when he ended his life. This is a crime if what he did was.
Matt Stoller
@matthewstollerSep 17
OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice." That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.
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I don't think they should be doing all that
Reuters Legal@ReutersLegalSep 18
Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. reuters.com/world/anthropic-…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab — or ​place for physical experiments — in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.

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@Info4PracticeSep 14
New on ifp.nyu.edu | The Big Greedy Data Center Next Door | newrepublic.com/article/2149…
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Product safety is pretty famously something that is created by laws
Dean W. Ball
@deanwballSep 17
David is fundamentally right that safety is a core obligation of the AI industry. It cannot and will not be legislated. Safety is something that is built, not something that is created from the top down with law. Law, at best, creates the incentives for safety to be prioritized.
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I think AI companies should be heavily regulated (at the very least!) and should also not receive broad exemptions from existing regulations newrepublic.com/article/2154…

Trump’s Rabid Refusal to Regulate AI Isn’t Even Good for AI

The Trump administration’s wildly permissive attitude toward the AI industry isn’t just bad for the environment and public health (and maybe our collective survival). It’s bad for the companies too.

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