Full reference for any U.S. officials who are working on this:

Thank you for doing this important work. It's impossible for even media-literate folks to parse through who's trustworthy and who's not. (And I guess that's their whole business model.)

If I die and go to heaven perhaps St. Peter or Giovanni Sartori will tell me what regime type I really lived in at this moment in time. Until then, as a matter of collective sensemaking, the degree matters less than the direction of change, which is obvious to anyone who wishes to see it. (2/3)

This reporting is the prime example of industry trade mag value

But are the trade-offs worth it?

So instead of The Workshop easily advancing its brand of "benefitting humanity" (brand building), it's serving to unmuddle it (crisis mgmt).

OpenAI is using it to reeducate customers/stakeholders and differentiate from what is starting to feel like a flattening of AI features among companies (IMO).

What do all of these have in common?

They would have been more valuable to OpenAI at or before ChatGPT was handed to the masses with little guidance or instruction.

There are lots of reasons to open a "Workshop."

Primary: Educate prospects, demonstrate unique value prop, convert prospects to customers.

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Love this connection! I was at the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was the team spurring electrified transportation and infrastructure. Everything from state tech support to software/hardware interoperability.

One of my theories of “how did it get so bad” is the increased distance (physical, mental) between average people and those who govern people. It wasn’t that long ago that fed govt was actually both. Now when I tell people I worked for the Dept of Energy, they react w/ a mix of wonder and caution.