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Ethan Zuckerman
@ethanz.bsky.social

Asked the motivation of the companies behind the frontier models, Janet says, "Because they can." There are no meaningful constraints that these companies respect or are shaped by, #attention2026

Ethan Zuckerman
@ethanz.bsky.social

Hugo suggests that employees are making game theoretic decisions - can I have more influence within a problematic lab than by stepping out and pressuring as a private citizen? It's not entirely clear what the right answer is in that situation.

Ethan Zuckerman
@ethanz.bsky.social

One question is where AI researchers should leave and go. Are the right organizations to advocate for AI safety regulators, or NGO? While the UK is taking AI safety seriously, not all nations seem to be.

Ethan Zuckerman
@ethanz.bsky.social

Janet argues that the incentives need to be at the societal level, not the level of individual engineers. That begins with enforceable restrictions from governments and real penalties. New Mexico's $25b settlement with Meta shows what meaningful fights could look like. #attention2026

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Ethan Zuckerman
@ethanz.bsky.social

Tomicah Tillemann of the Pro-Human AI Coalition talks about how standards wars around mobile phones led to cooperation and eventually the GSM mobile standard. There's an opportunity to do the same around AI now, he argues. Can we build out a pro-human AI stack? #attention2026

Ethan Zuckerman
@ethanz.bsky.social

Governing the technology and governing the ecosystem around the tech are different problems, Janet argues. "What does democratic power actually look like in this conversation?" We need to knit together the data center movement, parent movements, school movements, unions into democratic counterpower.