What I’m Reading - 6/2/24

What is it about short weeks that can feel so long? Though I’ll take the beautiful weather here on the shore to recharge. I hope you have a good Sunday. Happy Election Day to folks in Mexico.

What I’m Reading

1. The Connector
   : Time to Calm Down About AI and Politics

2. New York Post: Elon Musk's X to stage town hall with Donald Trump 

3. New York Times: Eyeing Trump, but on the Fence: How Tuned-Out Voters Could Decide 2024 

4. WIRED: The WIRED AI Elections Project 

5. Billy's Newsletter: Inside Anthropic

6. Time: Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy

7. Rest of World: In the India’s election, deepfakes are more trolling than misinformation

8. Washington Post: Debunking misinformation failed. Welcome to ‘pre-bunking’

9. Age of Disruption: Referend-Him! The "Not It" Election

10. WIRED: You Can Get Paid to Talk to Friends About Voting

11. Wall Street Journal: Inside Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Growing Alliance 

12. TechCrunch: Misinformation works, and a handful of social 'supersharers' sent 80% of it in 2020 

13. Trust And Safety Job Board 

14. TrustCon: Conference Agenda: TrustCon 2024 

15. OpenAI: OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee 

16. OpenAI: Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations

17. Meta: First Quarter 2024 Adversarial Threat Report

18. OpenAI: Introducing OpenAI for Nonprofits 

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