Sarah Schauer

Oh, absolutely.

Analysts like Harrison Rolfe at PitchBook and former OpenAI employees like Sarah Schauer, they argue this whole existential risk narrative is actually a very clever distraction.

And when they call it a distraction, I have to assume they mean a distraction from the messy stuff happening right now, like data center emissions or mass AI powered surveillance.

That, plus the use of AI in military warfare.

All right.

No one's covering this yet that I can find, at least outside of a few people on Instagram like Sarah Schauer, and I'm glad she posted this because it was brought to my attention.

But the Department of Health and Human Services is working on a proposed rule to change what's known as the Common Rule.

The Common Rule, also known as the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, is the common ethical standard for publicly funded research in the United States.