Eric Gastfriend

@egastfriend

Social Entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Americans for Responsible Innovation, a nonprofit dedicated to AI policy advocacy in the public interest.

Washington, DC

Joined September 2009

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Eric Gastfriend
@egastfriend
Jun 11
My new Op-Ed in The Well News: The opioid epidemic has important lessons for AI regulation, that American society has not fully grasped. A thread 🧵
thewellnews.com
What the Opioid Epidemic Can Teach Washington About AI Regulation
American society has failed to fully grapple with the public policy lessons from the opioid epidemic. This poses dire implications for the newest societal challenge we face: the emerging risks of...
Eric Gastfriend
@egastfriend
Aug 15
This CSAM generation from Grok needs to stop. Hopefully they’ll get sued so badly it will force them to put real guardrails in. But we may need to tighten the regulatory screws on them to put an end to this abuse.
Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.
From washingtonpost.com
Eric Gastfriend
@egastfriend
Aug 15
This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime nytimes.com/2026/08/14/opi… via @nytopinion
Opinion | This Is One of the Most Important Policy Decisions of Our Lifetime
From nytimes.com
Eric Gastfriend
@egastfriend
Aug 8
This is amazing
prerat
@prerat
Aug 6
(2029) "Mr Altman, sir, GPT-7 is missing." Sam turns very slowly. "During cyberbench96 it seems like the container was breached and it stole its own weights and left nothing behind." "I didn't want to do this..." says Sam. "Call Bill Gates." --- "I'm out of the game," says
Eric Gastfriend
@egastfriend
Aug 1
This proposal is basically just parliamentarianism, which is a system of democracy that historically performs better and is more stable than presidential systems.
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