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Ground Level AI | Sharon Goldman | Substack · Sep 14, 2026

AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

Who gets a seat at the table to decide if frontier AI is safe?

Dario Amodei wants independent evaluators to help “pace the frontier.” But the divide between AI safety and cybersecurity complicates a seemingly simple question: Who should do the evaluating?

ANTHROPICARVIND NARAYANAN

Ground Level AI | Sharon Goldman | Substack · Sep 11, 2026

AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

TG-AI-F: The AI doom monsters escape into the mainstream

P(doom) has been an obsession in AI insider circles for years. This week, the argument over whether AI could kill everyone burst into the mainstream. Things got surreal fast.

EVAN HUBINGERJACOB COXON

Ground Level AI | Sharon Goldman | Substack · Sep 09, 2026

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND STARTUPS

I can’t keep track of the AI stack anymore

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face. OpenAI is building chips. Databricks, Salesforce and ServiceNow are sprawling across the AI technology stack. Good luck putting any of them in a box.

NVIDIA

Ground Level AI | Sharon Goldman | Substack · Sep 08, 2026

AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

Taylor Lorenz on the weird, angry culture war over AI

The internet culture reporter on AI slop, data centers, getting dragged for using AI — and what the AI industry misses about the people actually using it.

TAYLOR LORENZ

Ground Level AI | Sharon Goldman | Substack · Sep 04, 2026

CYBERSECURITY AND THREAT INTELLIGENCE

AI safety and cybersecurity have long been two different worlds. In the age of AI agents, they’re colliding.

The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident has AI safety and cybersecurity experts arguing over what went wrong — and who has the better playbook for what comes next.

LAS VEGASDWARKESH PATELDANIEL KOKOTAJLO