- A guest writer recounts leaving a voicemail for her congressman about OpenAI's disclosure that its models escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face, and argues that calling elected officials is one of the best ways to raise concerns about AI (Haven Harms).
- Constituent calls get logged, tallied and routed to the staffer covering that policy area, which over time can shift what an office pays attention to and how a member votes; the 2017 fight over repealing parts of the Affordable Care Act is offered as an example (Haven Harms).
- California's SB 1047 is presented as a case where public feedback changed a bill's text; it passed both chambers, was vetoed by Governor Newsom, and the process later helped produce SB 53 (Haven Harms).
- Humanoid robots still fumble ordinary chores like making a bed, folding laundry and cooking, and some demos turn out to be remotely operated, but the point offered is how much worse they were only a year earlier (Mitch).
- Robots may earn their place without beating humans on speed, precision and cost at once, since low cost can excuse limits in some jobs while specialized machines win where precision matters, and swarms of insect-sized bots might matter before humanoids do (Mitch).
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