Christian Catalini

@ccatalini

Founder w/roots in academia. Founder @MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab. Past: Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Lightspark. Co-Creator, Libra. Head Economist, Meta.

California, USA

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Christian Catalini
@ccatalini
Sep 13
1/ When we looked at the economics of AGI, the key policy challenge was immediately clear: AI drastically lowers the cost of execution for anything easy to verify. For everything else, verification is the bottleneck.
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Christian Catalini
@ccatalini
9h
Don’t let hypotheticals distract us. Securing our infrastructure really can’t wait.
chrisrohlf
@chrisrohlf
22h
In the last several years AI has progressed rapidly but predictably, and in that time the cyber community learns the bitter lesson over and over again. We’ve collectively sleep walked into the current state of things and now I see emotionally driven responses when those outside
Christian Catalini
@ccatalini
13h
Verification as the bottleneck & moat: “My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.”
Mark Zuckerberg
@finkd
14h
Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: meta.com/thefutureisfor… Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The
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Christian Catalini
@ccatalini
13h
You've placed me about where I'd be if more convincing evidence shows up, @feulf. It hasn't yet, so for now a bit further toward Accelerate.
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Christian Catalini
@ccatalini
17h
1/ Meta’s @Muse offers a glimpse of where AI’s value will accrue: not to the models, but to whoever holds the complementary assets. Here, the personal context that makes the product useful.
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