A Twitter bug is restoring deleted tweets and retweets from James Vincent at The Verge. Earlier this year on 8th of May, I deleted all of my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. So if my old tweets are resurfacing due to this bug, I will be taking legal action. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used a Twitter space with Elon Musk and David Sacks on Wednesday night to announce that he is running for president in 2024. This was just kind of the official announcement. And it did not go well. According to the Washington Post, just minutes into the Twitter spaces with deSantis, the site was breaking because of technical glitches as more than 600,
The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, says social media poses a “profound risk of harm” to young people. Why do some in the tech industry disagree?
Then, Ajeya Cotra, an A.I. researcher, on how A.I. could lead to a doomsday scenario.
Plus: Pass the hat. Kevin and Casey play a game they call HatGPT.
On today’s episode:
Ajeya Cotra is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy
Additional reading:
The surgeon general issued an advisory about the risks of social media for young people.
Ajeya Cotra has researched the existential risks that A.I. poses unless countermeasures are taken.