The blog here is an enlightening piece on the EO, from one of the key architects behind it. The whole thing is worth reading, but some particularly notable points are:

www.hyperdimensional.co/p/dont-overt...

I'm also somewhat alarmed about the rise of position papers because there are way too many position papers saying "someone should do something" when they could just have been a regular paper saying "I did a thing"

I’ve just discovered that @cwjones.bsky.social first posted this in 2019 - thanks and all credit to him!

Now I want to know what you're subtweeting

"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"

I have found it hard to find concrete reporting on real use cases. lots of hype and PR substituting for real. hence the question.

Do you get a sense that the discussion of benefits is grounded in concrete examples, or that it's focused on hype or putative future benefit?

I haven’t gotten in to the AC games but Fallout 4 has forever warped how I view the Boston area and given me a visceral fear of Malden.

The result? A Raw Opportunity Bank (open to all) and a Vetted Opportunity Bank for policymakers and developers shaping the next era of AI.

If you’re building or researching an AI project that could benefit the public — submit it! 🌱
If you want to help evaluate entries — join us!
6/n, n=6

Submissions come from AI labs, civil society, and researchers around the world. Our interdisciplinary team, including students at @UTexasLaw and @BrownUniversity, evaluates each one for:
✅ Impact
✅ Scalability
✅ Ethics

and most importantly, if it's real :) 5/n

We’re cataloging and evaluating AI use cases across sectors:
⚕️ Healthcare
📚 Education
⚡ Energy
🧬 Material Science
🛡️ Societal Resilience
4/n

If we could, then we could start to move away from the doom-hype cycle of discourse and have a more grounded, evidence-based discussion of where AI might be useful and where it might not. 3/n

Too often, AI headlines focus on what might go wrong. The AI Opportunity Inventory focuses on what could go right — responsibly, transparently, and at scale.

Can we cut through the hype and identify promising use cases? 2/n

As @acm.org made clear in 2020, there should be "an immediate suspension of the current and future private and governmental use of FR technologies in all circumstances known or reasonably foreseeable to be prejudicial to established human and legal rights." ...

www.acm.org/binaries/con...

Sure, it's been a few years, but that's the nice thing about statements based on ethical principles: they remain relevant.

Software engineers shouldn't be building this shit.

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...

You had me at GPT

Luckily, there's a foolproof solution to this conundrum.

you're channeling our CNTR opportunities slack :)