As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in setting federal AI policy. I spoke with Wiener on Friday, only a few hours after he had been declared the victor. But he was already thinking about AI risk. The previous day, the AI nonprofit METR had released a report that had been widely interpreted as evidence that Anthropic had achieved recursive self-improvement, a phenomenon in which AI meaningfully contributes to its own advancement and AI progress potentially spins out of control. "It's very concerning," Wiener said, citing the report as evidence that we are quickly running out of time to regulate AI. "It was my hope that Congress would take decisive action before [the end of] this year," he said. "That does not appear to be happening." Wiener has been increasingly focused on AI in recent years, and he's made many of the AI safety movement's concerns his own: During our 20-minute conversation, he used the phrase "recursive self-improvement" half a dozen times, for example."We

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Anthropicfiled paperwork to go public on Monday, and while its list of business risk factors spans the fanciful (sentient AI) and the mundane (losing its executives), one stands above the rest as a likely source of headaches in the near future: the "evolving and uncertain regulatory and political environment." With an expected IPO around mid-November, and new representatives from the midterms elections to be sworn in in January, the company has a scant few months before it's almost guaranteed to incur even more political headaches. While the current Republican-controlled Congress has not put its political will behind constraining AI companies -- either the technology they produce or the resources they consume -- Americans of both parties are largely agreed in their opposition to data centers and concern about AI displacing jobs. With the executive branch already willing to create difficulty for Anthropic, the predicted "blue wave" of the midterms may result in the company landing on the wrong side of the legislative branch too. Anti-data center sentiment has absolutely been a factor in the midterms.

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