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Harlan Stewart

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Harlan Stewart

@HumanHarlan

Humanity is great and I want it to keep existing. Comms at @MIRIBerkeley. Former math teacher. Enjoyer of sci-fi, games, forecasting, psychology. Views my own.

Joined September 2014

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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Apr 14
Today, "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist" comes out for on-demand streaming. Here are some endorsements it's received:
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Aug 1, 2025
The AI companies don’t want you to know this but after the water is used to cool the servers, barrels of it are loaded into rockets and shot into the sun. It’s gone forever.
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Mar 11, 2025
It’s over, mortality. We’ve already depicted you as the soyjak and humanity as the chad.
Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Mar 11, 2025
Replying to @deepfates
This is on the side of a hospital in Atlanta
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Oct 28, 2025
The letter OpenAI sent to the White House today has 36 em dashes
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Aug 1, 2025
Replying to @ilex_ulmus
But it has a doctored photo of a datacenter in a Mad Max desert wasteland, how could I not make fun of this
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Jul 6, 2025
I can’t believe it’s already the 2-yr anniversary of OpenAI announcing it would solve the alignment problem in 4 years. Such a relief that Ilya, Jan, Leopold, and the rest must now be ~50% done with the breakthroughs needed to steer/control superhuman AI systems
OpenAI
@OpenAI
Jul 5, 2023
We need new technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. Our new Superalignment team aims to solve this problem within 4 years, and we’re dedicating 20% of the compute we've secured to date towards this problem. Join us! openai.com/blog/introduci…
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Aug 1, 2025
Here’s what the Sahara looked like before ChatGPT
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Nov 26, 2024
Replying to @LinkofSunshine
Why does everyone pretend like nuclear power doesn’t exist
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
May 28, 2025
And it gets worse: Dario has also warned AI could cause literal human extinction, an outcome that would eliminate at least two-thirds of white-collar jobs
Axios
@axios
May 28, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a blunt warning: AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs, spiking unemployment to 10-20% in the next 1-5 years. Few are paying attention: Politicians don't get it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-…
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Jun 2, 2025
I just learned that existential risk from AI is actually a psyop carefully orchestrated by a shadowy cabal consisting of all of the leading AI companies, the three most cited AI scientists of all time, the majority of published AI researchers, the Catholic Church, RAND, the
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Jul 26, 2025
This is how some of you sound
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
May 24, 2025
Palisade Research
@PalisadeAI
May 24, 2025
🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Oct 11, 2025
Everyone who isn't OpenAI or its investors: OpenAI should not be allowed to convert to a for-profit Encode: We agree OpenAI: hm it seems that Encode has taken the side specifically of Elon Musk and no one else. Very suspicious of them
Jason Kwon
@jasonkwon
Oct 10, 2025
There’s quite a lot more to the story than this. As everyone knows, we are actively defending against Elon in a lawsuit where he is trying to damage OpenAI for his own financial benefit. Encode, the organization for which @_NathanCalvin serves as the General Counsel, was one
Readers added context
The subpoena request also asked for all communications involving SB 53. This is a bill unrelated to the lawsuit with Musk. x.com/_NathanCalvin/…
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Harlan Stewart
@HumanHarlan
Oct 20, 2025
In the replies to this, Demis is clearly the least distrusted AI CEO. Which is pretty ironic, given that his lab was the first, and the rest were ~all founded under the premise that the existing labs couldn’t be trusted.
AshutoshShrivastava
@ai_for_success
Oct 19, 2025
Who is the least trusted person with AGI among these six?
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