Nik Marda
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Nik Marda
@nrmarda
Campaign manager for my high school math teacher @JakeJohnsonMN in MN-01. Sometimes teaching tech policy @NorthwesternU and @BrownUniversity.
NVIDIA is one of the donors for the ballroom. They donated like $10 million to it, and now they might get a policy change worth $400 billion.I would simply not give away the essential bottleneck input for the most important dual-use technology of our era to the US's primary geopolitical rival.
- Maybe the 100 most influential people in AI are actually 100 data labelers from the philippines
- Excited to share that I've joined the team at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to work on AI ethics! Honored and humbled to support Dr. Lynne Parker, the National AI Initiative Office, and colleagues across OSTP
- Replying to @nrmardaHere's @nicsperling's great article. The quote actually predates the BLM tweet by a bit, but it's referencing the same, ongoing, 2+ year effort to cozy up with the Saudis 👇 nytimes.com/2020/12/24/bus…
- Can we take a moment to appreciate that the tech right just had a whole "omg china is going to beat us in AI, this is our sputnik moment, we must out innovate them" moment and then their first policy action was to cut off all federal funding for AI research in the U.S.
- Robinhood went from "CS + Social Good" to "CS + Social Bad" so fast... Almost like "social good" was a loose and arbitrary term to begin with 🙃
- Today, Mozilla is releasing a new vision for Public AI We’re making a big push to promote public goods, public orientation, and public use throughout every step of AI development and deployment 🧵
Happy "David Sacks has now worked more than 130 days as a Special Government Employee" to those who celebrate- Today was my last day as chief of staff of the tech division at @WHOSTP. These past 2.5 years have been so rewarding and fun — and I’m very grateful to have worked with such amazing colleagues. I’ll miss it a lot!
- Today, the U.S. government is establishing new rules for its own use of AI, and they’re a HUGE deal Buckle up folks — we’re going to unpack how they work and why they’re so good 🧵
- In the @StanfordDaily today, @cbhasselmann and I write about why Stanford's leading voices on AI should defend @timnitGebru:
