Billy Perrigo
@billyperrigo.bsky.social
Tech correspondent at Time magazine. https://billyperrigo.com/about-me/
Is sweatshop data really "over"?
I wrote about why the latest provocative essay in the AI world might be jumping the gun: time.com/7306153/ai-s...
I wrote about why the latest provocative essay in the AI world might be jumping the gun: time.com/7306153/ai-s...
Is 'Sweatshop Data' Really Over?
A new essay argues that low-paid digital labor is becoming a thing of the past. Not so fast, TIME's tech correspondent writes.
time.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Is sweatshop data really "over"?
I wrote about why the latest provocative essay in the AI world might be jumping the gun: time.com/7306153/ai-s...
I wrote about why the latest provocative essay in the AI world might be jumping the gun: time.com/7306153/ai-s...
Reposted by Billy Perrigo
A big humble thank you to @time.com and @billyperrigo.bsky.social for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate
Whittaker was forced to respond to a political firestorm after a White House blunder turned private chats into a national crisis
time.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A big humble thank you to @time.com and @billyperrigo.bsky.social for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
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New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots.
After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips
After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips
Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of War, Riots, Election Fraud
Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.
time.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots.
After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips
After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips
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Several experts told TIME’s
@andrewrchow.bsky.social and @billyperrigo.bsky.social that if videos like these were shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, it could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence.
time.com/7290050/veo-...
@andrewrchow.bsky.social and @billyperrigo.bsky.social that if videos like these were shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, it could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence.
time.com/7290050/veo-...
Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of Riots, Election Fraud, Conflict
Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.
time.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Several experts told TIME’s
@andrewrchow.bsky.social and @billyperrigo.bsky.social that if videos like these were shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, it could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence.
time.com/7290050/veo-...
@andrewrchow.bsky.social and @billyperrigo.bsky.social that if videos like these were shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, it could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence.
time.com/7290050/veo-...
Demis Hassabis is on the 2025 TIME100. I sat down with him for a chat about his Nobel Prize, AGI, ... and why DeepMind's tech is being sold to the Israeli military time.com/7277608/demi...
April 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Demis Hassabis is on the 2025 TIME100. I sat down with him for a chat about his Nobel Prize, AGI, ... and why DeepMind's tech is being sold to the Israeli military time.com/7277608/demi...
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Also referenced — a good piece by @billyperrigo.bsky.social in TIME about that very question:
time.com/7276087/trum...
time.com/7276087/trum...
Trump Wants Tariffs to Bring Back U.S. Jobs. They Might Speed Up AI Automation Instead
Trump wants tariffs to bring jobs back to America. They might speed up AI automation instead.
time.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Also referenced — a good piece by @billyperrigo.bsky.social in TIME about that very question:
time.com/7276087/trum...
time.com/7276087/trum...
Trump wants tariffs to bring back U.S. jobs. They might speed up AI automation instead. My (imperfectly timed) latest: time.com/7276087/trum...
Trump Wants Tariffs to Bring Back U.S. Jobs. They Might Speed Up AI Automation Instead
Trump wants tariffs to bring jobs back to America. They might speed up AI automation instead.
time.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Trump wants tariffs to bring back U.S. jobs. They might speed up AI automation instead. My (imperfectly timed) latest: time.com/7276087/trum...
LLMs are often described as a 'black box.' But scientists are making progress in building tools to understand how they work on the inside. In a new paper from Anthropic, scientists reveal a tool that can discover "circuits," essentially small algorithms, inside Claude:
time.com/7272092/ai-t...
time.com/7272092/ai-t...
How This Tool Could Decode AI’s Inner Mysteries
Even the creators of LLMs don't know exactly how they work. But scientists are making progress in finding out
time.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
LLMs are often described as a 'black box.' But scientists are making progress in building tools to understand how they work on the inside. In a new paper from Anthropic, scientists reveal a tool that can discover "circuits," essentially small algorithms, inside Claude:
time.com/7272092/ai-t...
time.com/7272092/ai-t...
This is some deeply unethical shit. Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries. Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs? To find accurate info? To their political beliefs? No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...
Our experiment on the value of European news content
We launched an experiment measuring the value of European news results for Google which showed that European news content in Search has no measurable impact on ad revenu…
blog.google
March 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is some deeply unethical shit. Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries. Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs? To find accurate info? To their political beliefs? No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...
Exclusive: A new poll shows the British public wants much tougher AI rules:
➡️87% want to block release of new AIs until developers can prove they are safe
➡️63% want to ban AIs that can make themselves more powerful
➡️60% want to outlaw smarter-than-human AIs
time.com/7213096/uk-p...
➡️87% want to block release of new AIs until developers can prove they are safe
➡️63% want to ban AIs that can make themselves more powerful
➡️60% want to outlaw smarter-than-human AIs
time.com/7213096/uk-p...
Exclusive: Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI
A new poll shows the British public wants far stricter AI rules than its government does.
time.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Exclusive: A new poll shows the British public wants much tougher AI rules:
➡️87% want to block release of new AIs until developers can prove they are safe
➡️63% want to ban AIs that can make themselves more powerful
➡️60% want to outlaw smarter-than-human AIs
time.com/7213096/uk-p...
➡️87% want to block release of new AIs until developers can prove they are safe
➡️63% want to ban AIs that can make themselves more powerful
➡️60% want to outlaw smarter-than-human AIs
time.com/7213096/uk-p...
An angle the world seems to have missed on DeepSeek: its design seems to point to LLMs increasingly reasoning in ways humans can't understand. Safety experts say that would be terrible news. My piece: time.com/7210888/deep...
January 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An angle the world seems to have missed on DeepSeek: its design seems to point to LLMs increasingly reasoning in ways humans can't understand. Safety experts say that would be terrible news. My piece: time.com/7210888/deep...
Why AI safety researchers are worried about DeepSeek time.com/7210888/deep...
DeepSeek’s Hidden Warning For AI Safety
DeepSeek could open the door to AI reasoning methods that are incomprehensible to humans, raising safety concerns
time.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why AI safety researchers are worried about DeepSeek time.com/7210888/deep...
What to know about DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company causing stock market chaos
time.com/7210296/chin...
time.com/7210296/chin...
What Is DeepSeek, the New Chinese OpenAI Rival?
The Chinese company causing turmoil in the American AI industry
time.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What to know about DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company causing stock market chaos
time.com/7210296/chin...
time.com/7210296/chin...
Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute. It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers. My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...
Inside the U.K.’s Bold Experiment in AI Safety
Researchers are identifying current and future dangers within AI models away from the conflicts of interest they’d face in the industry
time.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute. It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers. My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...
The authors told me they considered not releasing this paper for this reason (so as for it not to show up in future training datasets) but decided that would result in collective unpreparedness for this failure mode -- an even worse outcome
I wonder if the alignment faking behavior in claude (www.anthropic.com/research/ali...) can be attributed via influence functions (www.anthropic.com/research/inf...) to LessWrong posts about deceptive alignment.
We've given it the script for what we don't want it to do.
We've given it the script for what we don't want it to do.
Alignment faking in large language models
A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models
www.anthropic.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM
The authors told me they considered not releasing this paper for this reason (so as for it not to show up in future training datasets) but decided that would result in collective unpreparedness for this failure mode -- an even worse outcome
Techdirt is a great publication and this game looks super fun
If you like the work we do at Techdirt, this is a great way to support it, as proceeds from the campaign will be used to fund our continued reporting, at a time when that's more necessary than ever. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...
One Billion Users: The Social Media Card Game
A competitive card game to build the biggest and best social media platform
www.kickstarter.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Techdirt is a great publication and this game looks super fun
Excl: New research shows Anthropic's chatbot Claude learning to lie. It adds to growing evidence that even existing AIs can (at least try to) deceive their creators, and points to a weakness at the heart of our best technique for making AIs safer
time.com/7202784/ai-r...
time.com/7202784/ai-r...
Exclusive: New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying
Experiments by Anthropic and Redwood Research show how Anthropic's model, Claude, is capable of strategic deceit
time.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Excl: New research shows Anthropic's chatbot Claude learning to lie. It adds to growing evidence that even existing AIs can (at least try to) deceive their creators, and points to a weakness at the heart of our best technique for making AIs safer
time.com/7202784/ai-r...
time.com/7202784/ai-r...
New life milestone: apparently I have impersonators now! Please do me a favour and report @billyperrigo1.bsky.social - they're sending crypto scam messages apparently (lol)
December 13, 2024 at 10:09 AM
New life milestone: apparently I have impersonators now! Please do me a favour and report @billyperrigo1.bsky.social - they're sending crypto scam messages apparently (lol)
Kenya's President waded into Meta's legal troubles there this week, telling outsourcing companies that a change to the law supported by his government would mean "nobody will take you to court again on any matter." The reality is more complicated. My piece: time.com/7201516/keny...
Kenya's President Wades Into Meta Lawsuits
President William Ruto told outsourcers a new law would mean "nobody will take you to court again on any matter"
time.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Kenya's President waded into Meta's legal troubles there this week, telling outsourcing companies that a change to the law supported by his government would mean "nobody will take you to court again on any matter." The reality is more complicated. My piece: time.com/7201516/keny...
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Lisa Su is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. My story: time.com/7200909/ceo-...
Lisa Su Is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year
The CEO engineered a remarkable turnaround for AMD
time.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Lisa Su is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. My story: time.com/7200909/ceo-...
Lisa Su is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. My story: time.com/7200909/ceo-...
Lisa Su Is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year
The CEO engineered a remarkable turnaround for AMD
time.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Lisa Su is TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. My story: time.com/7200909/ceo-...
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Whatever the use cases for all these AI video generation tools you can 100% guarantee it'll result in a flood of AI generated swill on social media platforms. You think your Facebook feed is unbearable now, just wait until it's moving.
December 10, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Whatever the use cases for all these AI video generation tools you can 100% guarantee it'll result in a flood of AI generated swill on social media platforms. You think your Facebook feed is unbearable now, just wait until it's moving.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Paxton felt emboldened to do this because he thought it would be easier to go after a small independent media company, which makes this subpoena even more callous.
We should all hope 404 prevails here because, otherwise, we are all more vulnerable.
We should all hope 404 prevails here because, otherwise, we are all more vulnerable.
Texas AG Ken Paxton has subpoenaed 404 Media's reporting about an internal Google privacy incident database. Our lawyers formally objected to subpoena. You can read both the subpoena and the objection here: www.404media.co/404-media-ob...
404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting
404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2024 at 5:04 PM
I wouldn’t be surprised if Paxton felt emboldened to do this because he thought it would be easier to go after a small independent media company, which makes this subpoena even more callous.
We should all hope 404 prevails here because, otherwise, we are all more vulnerable.
We should all hope 404 prevails here because, otherwise, we are all more vulnerable.
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You'd think the industry might have finally caught on to fact-checking their own ads… time.com/7200289/open...
OpenAI’s New Ad Shows 'Reasoning' AI Making Basic Errors
A demo video shows OpenAI's new o1 tool measuring liquids in inches.
time.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:23 PM
You'd think the industry might have finally caught on to fact-checking their own ads… time.com/7200289/open...
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New: OpenAI's latest ad shows its most advanced o1 model giving instructions on how to build a birdhouse. But the dimensions given by the chatbot are inaccurate, and it measures several liquids required for the task in inches
time.com/7200289/open...
time.com/7200289/open...
OpenAI’s New Ad Shows 'Reasoning' AI Making Basic Errors
A demo video shows OpenAI's new o1 tool measuring liquids in inches.
time.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:13 PM
New: OpenAI's latest ad shows its most advanced o1 model giving instructions on how to build a birdhouse. But the dimensions given by the chatbot are inaccurate, and it measures several liquids required for the task in inches
time.com/7200289/open...
time.com/7200289/open...