Dean W. Ball @deanwball
Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 48m:
"There is indeed something surreal about seeing extremely sci-fi concepts in the most mundane surfaces of the technocracy, like a kind of shitty, only partially mobile-compliant government webform with options like this"
[Embedded screenshot of a government webform dropdown/radio list, partially visible, titled "...submission" with options: "Catastrophic risks in AI foundation models – employee reports (SB 53)", "Child welfare", "Civil rights or discrimination", "Consumer complaint/Complaint against a business", "Cybercrime", "Education related", "Employment or labor", "Environmental or public health", "General feedback or inquiry", "Healthcare", "Housing", "Law enforcement", "Local government or District Attorney" — list continues beyond the crop]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Dean Ball (former White House AI policy staffer) posts a screenshot of a California state government complaint-intake webform that includes "Catastrophic risks in AI foundation models – employee reports (SB 53)" alongside mundane categories like child welfare and consumer complaints — illustrating the bureaucratic normalization of AI catastrophic-risk regulation (SB 53 being California's frontier AI safety/whistleblower law). Relevant to AI governance archive threads.
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