Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 @JoinFAI
A think tank focused on championing the technology, talent, and ideas essential to American prosperity, security, and flourishing. thefai.org United States 🇺🇸 Joined May 2013-
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We can’t let politics get in the way of building more energy supply. Glad to sit down with @ThomasHochman to discuss the FREEDOM Act and unlocking America’s full energy potential.
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What are the challenges standing in the way of more nuclear? According to Senator Bill Hagerty and NRC Chairman Ho Nieh, the key barriers are: - Capital - Supply Chain - Workforce Addressing these will be critical to scaling nuclear energy in the U.S.
What crossed the line with Fable's AI research restrictions? @hamandcheese, chief economist at @joinFAI: "This is a private company... they can restrict access however they want. There are no rules about this." "But the thing that really left a bad taste in my mouth is the ways in which they're nerfing the model clandestinely." "It's one thing if your model says, 'Sorry, I can't answer that,' or bumps you down to 4.8, but to use steering vectors and other interventions to actually degrade performance in a way that you can't tell, that has to be trust-harming." "Helen Toner put it exactly right... 'This seems like a bad and trust-damaging move to degrade performance silently rather than handling other topics of concern with a warning box or bumping down to a less capable model.'"
I mostly agree with this, but it does seem like a bad and trust-damaging move to degrade performance on AI R&D tasks silently, rather than handling like other topics of concern (warning box + bumping the chat down to a less capable model)
Energy Imperatives 2026: @JoinFAI’s @ppavnr and @ThomasHochman talk to Sen. Joe Manchin about the peril and promise of permitting reform.
Excited to be speaking for the second day of the Energy Imperatives Summit with Conner Prochaska of @ARPAE !
🚨 Last chance to register for tomorrow’s Energy Imperatives Summit in DC: 4 Senators 5 House Reps 6 Senate-confirmed agency heads/execs 1 Governor 4 major energy CEOs & many more
I'll be on to discuss Fable @ 2:30 eastern wearing my best Hawaiian shirt
COHERE CO-FOUNDER | FABLE REACTIONS | IS MYTHOS NERFED? x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Why is the US racing to build quantum computers before anyone else? State actors are already collecting encrypted data today, banking records, Signal messages, health data... sitting on servers waiting to be decoded. The question is who gets there first. @JoshuaTLevine, director of technology and statecraft at FAI. "How do we defend against that? It's getting there first." "People wrongly throw AI around being close to an atomic bomb... in terms of the deterrence capability of getting there first, you want the absolute advantage to be able to look at an adversary and say, 'We will break you if you get close to us.'" "The reason Bitcoin holders specifically are concerned... distributed ledger. There is no one to flip the switch and say, 'We're all migrating now.' That will break." "Other chains will probably have a better time with migration... it's maybe not as dire for them. But just with the hold culturally that Bitcoin has over people, and how diffused it is in the market, that's why this is becoming a more live issue today."
Really glad to partner with our friends at @ACC_National & @AmericanAffrs on Energy Imperatives! Day 1 recap below:
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Day 2 of the Energy Imperatives Summit is happening now 🇺🇸 Check out highlights from yesterday's programming:
Will be moderating three great panels this morning: @RepJoshHarder on the Build America Caucus @JoeManchinWV on permitting reform and @juliekozeracki on EDF and all things nuclear Come hang out!
Come on out and join members of Congress, agency heads, and industry leaders for the second annual Energy Imperatives Summit! Gonna be a blast.
A pleasure to chat about The Quantum Moment, what it means for American Technology & Statecraft, and some exciting new work from @JoinFAI today with @MTSlive
Why is the US racing to build quantum computers before anyone else? State actors are already collecting encrypted data today, banking records, Signal messages, health data... sitting on servers waiting to be decoded. The question is who gets there first. @JoshuaTLevine,
China can build a working reactor in 5 years, meanwhile we can’t even get permitting done in the same time frame. @nukebarbarian interviews John Williams of @SouthernCompany Nuclear.
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Today on MTS: @CJohnsonAELI on China's AI buildout @euwyn on Orbital fundraise @masonwarner on AI for creative work @fabknowledge on what's happening in AI @PrinehaN & @JoshuaTLevine on Quantum policy in the US @StevenGlinert on the state of chips and more. Live at 9am PT
New policy brief out analyzing recently introduced bills that aim to address AI's labor impacts. These are early entries in a policy conversation that will evolve rapidly in the coming months. If you want to understand what has been formally proposed to date, give this a read.
1/ Congress is starting to take AI’s labor-market impacts seriously. Over the past year, lawmakers in both parties have introduced bills aimed at understanding how AI is changing work and preparing workers for the disruption that may follow. In a new @GovAIOrg policy brief,
The New York Times published a roundtable discussion between @DAcemogluMIT, @deanwball, @clarashih & myself about the future of AI & who wins at work. I think it is a really nice overview of the core debates on the topic, and has some fun examples. nytimes.com/2026/06/09/mag…
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And there we have it. Innolight made it onto the list of companies affiliated with the People's Liberation Army. Team Telecom is rightly looking long and hard at this and other transceiver companies. Expect more investigations and more bans to come.
Optical transceivers are the next focus in continuing efforts to secure America’s digital infrastructure. But @DeptofWar should take this one slowly and methodically. New from me in The SCIF:
Optical transceivers are the next focus in continuing efforts to secure America’s digital infrastructure. But @DeptofWar should take this one slowly and methodically. New from me in The SCIF:
“The Pentagon flagged Innolight and Eoptolink in October. The Section 805 deadline arrives June 30. The optical layer, which used to be the part of the data center policymakers could safely ignore, has become the layer on which the rest of the stack waits. Congress should treat
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