Joe's Journal

In praise of the United Nations

Anything as ambitious as the UN will inevitably be imperfect, but we should be rooting for it anyway.

Jan 9 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Tech Optimism: Non-Broligarch Edition

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly Hall was a true life highlight 🤩

Jan 6 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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December 2025

Announcing the Creators' Coalition on AI

Technology should strengthen human creativity, not undermine it.

Dec 16, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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"Parents Need To Parent"

Parents should be doing all they can to keep kids off of predatory, addictive algorithms. And yet, can 100% of the responsibility be put on parents? Or…

Dec 12, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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If AI businesses use your content or data, HOW should you be paid?

A rough sketch of how consent and compensation could actually work for GenAI training data.

Dec 9, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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AI companies are robbing everyone

California AB-412 would force AI companies to be transparent about what data they’ve taken to build their models.

Dec 8, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Stacey Abrams on movies, religion, and the future of democracy

Btw, she just put out her 14th novel! And it’s about AI…

Dec 3, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Stacey Abrams

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November 2025

Buying an AI Toy this Black Friday?

The temptation may be there, but these toys are governed by the same attention-maximizing algorithms that run our most addictive social media platforms.

Nov 25, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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AI companies are being sneaky 🐍

Big AI companies are trying to restrict states from regulating AI by adding an eleventh-hour provision to the annual National Defense Authorization Act.

Nov 19, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Your digital self should belong to you

Speaking to an arena crowd about internet serfdom, AI’s fictitiously looming Hiroshima moment, and why my kids make me optimistic

Nov 18, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Does “the algorithm” favor authoritarians like Donald Trump?

Social media feeds and AI chatbots are both driven by the same attention maximizers — what does that do to political discourse?

Nov 12, 2025 • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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October 2025

Why build an AI that's smarter than humans?

I've signed a petition, along with many smarter and more qualified people than myself, that calls for Superintelligence development to adhere to basic…

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