To me, it’s an interesting decision to pull funding because of this type of coverage. There’s a tendency in AIS lobbying to never say what we actually mean to “get in the right rooms” but then when we want to say the thing that matters at a pivotal time, nobody will listen because we got there by being quiet.
Buckling under the pressure of the biggest lobby to ever exist (tech) putting out one or two hit pieces is really unfortunate. Same arguments can be made for why UK AISI and the AI Safety Summits didn’t become even bigger; simply that there was no will to continue the lobbying move and everyone was too afraid of reputation.
Happy to hear alternative perspectives, of course.
To me, it’s an interesting decision to pull funding because of this type of coverage. There’s a tendency in AIS lobbying to never say what we actually mean to “get in the right rooms” but then when we want to say the thing that matters at a pivotal time, nobody will listen because we got there by being quiet.
Buckling under the pressure of the biggest lobby to ever exist (tech) putting out one or two hit pieces is really unfortunate. Same arguments can be made for why UK AISI and the AI Safety Summits didn’t become even bigger; simply that there was no will to continue the lobbying move and everyone was too afraid of reputation.
Happy to hear alternative perspectives, of course.