The Rise of Digital McCarthyism

OpenAI's new Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, just wrote the textbook demonstration of digital McCarthyism

Dean Ball, days into his new job as Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, posted his assessment of Kimi K3, the new model from the Chinese lab Moonshot AI. Kimi is an open-weight model, which means its inner workings are published for anyone to download, run, and modify; the newest version’s weights ship later this month. It had just matched the best pub…