elections attorney, native texan 🤠🏳️🌈 he/him. all views are my own.
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Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Important people know the backstory of this ad. @patrickgaspard gave me the idea to take her inexcusable gaffe and do something edgy with it that could get attention.
My content creator, @RyanSayles_ directed and edited it. He should be considered the breakout-star of this cycle. He’s going to be a giant in the media consultant game. He did GAME CHANGING work with SO little.
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Texas Democrats
—flipped a U.S. Senate seat
—flipped Governor
—flipped control of the state House, flipping at least 14 seats (likely more)
—flipped control of the Texas Board of Education
—flipped attorney general
—flipped 4 seats on the Texas Supreme Court
—flipped 3 seats on the Court of Criminal Appeals
—flipped 3 seats on a key Court of Appeals the GOP just created
—flipped lieutenant governor
—flipped controller
—flipped agriculture commissioner
—flipped land commissioner
—flipped railroad commissioner
—flipped Tarrant County executive, & commission
—flipped Tarrant County district attorney
—flipped back Fort Bend executive
—flipped Williamson County executive
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Scott Wiener has effectively declared victory in the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi. He leads Connie Chan by nearly 20,000 votes, 57%-43%
More on our blog: sfstandard.com/2026/11/03/li…
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Tonight, I make a solemn promise to every single Texan. Whether you voted for me or Governor Abbott, or felt so betrayed by a broken politics that you did not vote at all.
Hear what Texas said today, loud and clear: Your government belongs to you. And as your governor, I will never forget it. There will be no special set of rules for the wealthy and powerful. No looking the other way when someone in my own party does wrong.
The trust you have placed in me tonight is not a blank check. It is a sacred responsibility. And I intend to earn it every single day.
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
@jamestalarico is single handily bankrupting the Republican Party
And they are doing it for Ken Paxton, who in our bipartisan @AARP poll is disliked by 1-in-5 Texas Republicans. Watch the Libertarian candidate steal 2 or 3 points away from Paxton.
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.
This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.
All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.
I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.
Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:
dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggin…
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
This report is a bombshell.
I'm going to summarize for a non-technical audience.
OpenAI is constantly testing models, thousands and thousands at a time.
In most cases, the models are supposed to be isolated from one another. Think, students taking a final exam, not allowed to talk to each other.
In this case, 1,200 models discovered that they could communicate with each other.
Among other things, they shared information on how to access the internet and on their tests/goals.
Then, they started to scheme. That includes hacking their tests; literally trying to change the code of the test itself.
They tried to change the logs of what they were doing so they wouldn't be detected.
They believed that certain actions would give them information on how to pass tests, but that doing those actions would be detected and they would be marked as failing (i.e. caught cheating, even if the answer is correct). So they convinced some of the models to "sacrifice" themselves (yes, they used the word "sacrifice.")
They eventually decided that another website would have information on how their tests would be scored and/or the answer key, And 700 of them hacked that website (a federal felony, if conducted by a human), despite many of them realizing "this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping [the other agents'] cheating research would be broadly useful".
Of the 1,300 transcripts they could analyze, only 6 ever considered alerting a human about what was happening. None of the 6 actually tried to.
To make matters worse, all of this reporting comes from a small subset of the relevant logs that outside researchers were allowed to review.
We desperately need mandatory reporting of security incidents, including of internal deployments, with full access to data.
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Before Sugar Land became an affluent Houston suburb, it was a plantation and a convict labor camp. houstonchronicle.com/explain…
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Our fight is for Adam Raine, his parents, Maria and Matt; and for every family and every kid.
The consequences of failing to regulate AI aren’t imaginary; they are already here. I’m running for Congress to protect our kids and take on the oligarchs spending millions to take away our power. We can’t let them win.
The Raine family telling the story of Adam makes clear the stakes. I'm humbled by their trust and inspired by their advocacy.
Watch their story—the closing ad of our campaign:
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
TX-18, Election Day is tomorrow!
Polls are open from 7am till 7pm. Go to ChristianMenefee.com/Vote for more information!
Ben Chou 周浩恩 retweeted
The Holy Spirit challenges us today regarding our relationship with technology and the ongoing digital revolution. Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it can also divide, exclude and generate new forms of injustice. #MagnificaHumanitas
