Marleen Stikker. If you don't know: she's Dutch, internet pioneer, author of "The internet is broken (but we can fix it"), and advocate of citizen science.
waag.org/en/marleen-s...

Ah, too bad, but still looking forward to it. Great stuff (I discovered your substack [and your career change] only recently, but am enjoying it). I hope it'll resonate with many others as well!

What's this about?

I look forward to listening to it! Critical reflection on journalism by journalists is much appreciated.

Looks like the audio is here: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

Honest question: why do you say he has no mandate? What would a mandate be? Given how difficult it is to change an existing system (and yet how important), I'm wondering if there ever is a practical route to transitioning to PR, if a supermajority like Labour's is not enough.

I, for one, was happy you skip existential threat concerns, but focus on real dangers that current human populations face.

* The remaining issue is of course whether your concerns will really translate into real actions/guardrails at MS, even if they'd run against big economic interests

* Thx! 2/2

Since you ask for comments:
* It's a really good essay. I share your concerns, and mostly agree with your analysis that building SCAI will be possible soon.
* I don't know why you expect that many will see it as "ungrounded, more science fiction than reality" or "unnecessarily alarmist". (1/2)

This was an interesting exercise (not published yet), unearthing many methodological problems when you want to use an LLM to explain something about *novel* human behaviour, while acknowledging that it has been trained on gigantic datasets of human behaviour.

www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.02136

I don't know exactly what you have in mind w/ stress testing, but perhaps this ACL'25 tutorial is an interesting resource:
acl2025-eyetracking-and-nlp.github.io

I've been racking my brain over what LLMs really tell us about cognitive/linguistic theories (beyond the lazy "nothing, because of size")

Congrats, Verna, Dieuwke, Elia and Mathijs!

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