Director of Public Policy @ Meta, member of the URI Board of Trustees, father of two beautiful children. Tweets are my own.

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Joined March 2010
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seriously awesome use case for muse — clean up the neighborhood!
I’m slowly cleaning up the suburbs with Muse. Saw this mess of wires on a pole. Took a picture and asked Muse to contact Verizon to get them cleaned up. It went to their website and got to work. There is a 0% chance I would’ve sat in a Verizon support chat over this. I would’ve just been mildly annoyed every time I walked past it for the next five years. “Someone should do something about that” is now a prompt. 🤝 @alexandr_wang
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Introducing Muse for Small Business — new skills and connectors that turn an AI agent into an extra set of hands for the owner whose to-do list has a to-do list. Tell Muse your goal once and it works in the background! muse.ai/business
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This is a critical point for U.S. innovation and leadership on AI. Open source development would be harmed by a "kill switch" requirement. Let's approach regulation in a way that doesn't reduce choice and competition.
The “AI kill switch” idea misses the point. It doesn’t stop AI. It slows down the open-source ecosystem. Closed models will continue to have capital, infrastructure and distribution. The biggest impact will be on researchers, startups and independent builders experimenting in the open. If the goal is AI safety, we need policy that targets actual risk, not open-source innovation.
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Mark Zuckerberg: “Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.”
Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: meta.com/thefutureisforevery… Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned. There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind. - Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well. Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built. - Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators. - Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.
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Matthew Lenz retweeted
Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: meta.com/thefutureisforevery… Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned. There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind. - Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well. Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built. - Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators. - Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.
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WATCH: AI is being developed to help save critically ill babies. NICU doctor: “We can do that using AI” to make placing a breathing tube “safer and more effective” when a baby is in respiratory failure. That’s AI innovation at work.
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Proud to partner with @NABTU to invest in the men and women of the skilled trades who are building America’s future.
📢BREAKING NEWS: NABTU and @Meta are partnering to strengthen Registered Apprenticeship pathways and invest in the unionized skilled trades workforce building the infrastructure behind America’s data revolution. The future is for everyone. The future is union-built. Learn more: nabtu.org/press_releases/nab…
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.@FoxBusiness: @Meta announced a $1 billion Future is for Everyone Fund to invest directly in communities, backing teachers, law enforcement, local infrastructure. Zuckerberg says he was inspired by teachers in Richland Parish, Louisiana who received bonuses thanks to the company’s data center investment in that state.
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As @andrewrsorkin notes, Meta to launch a $1B Future Is For Everyone Fund "aimed at investing in communities...it will be focused, from what I understand, on policemen and firemen and members of these communities." Read more here: meta.com/thefutureisforevery…
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Betting on people. Betting on communities. Making sure the benefits of AI reach every corner of the country. The Future is for Everyone.
By working together, we can make this moment transformational for humanity. The future can be for everyone.
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By working together, we can make this moment transformational for humanity. The future can be for everyone.
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What an honor to partner with the leaders in Richland Parish, Louisiana, who are investing in their community, in their teachers, and in their small businesses. It is a privilege to be part of what they’re building!
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Matthew Lenz retweeted
"But the data-center panic is overblown. Most of the complaints inflate the costs of data centers and overlook the fact that, in some contexts at least, they can bring real benefits."
“Data centers are allegedly an unmitigated disaster: They guzzle water, strain electric grids, and raise prices ... But the data-center panic is overblown,” @EliasWachtel argues. In some contexts they can bring real benefits, he reports. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Matthew Lenz retweeted
For America’s 250th, @Meta is giving every blind veteran in the country free Ray-Ban AI glasses. That’s 130,000+ people getting their independence back. Perfect way to celebrate our 250th by helping those who sacrificed dearly to get us to this milestone birthday. @DinaPowellMcC
“I can’t think of a better way to honor America’s 250th birthday than by giving those who have sacrificed so much a way to make their lives better”: Meta is giving free Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to every legally blind veteran in the U.S., Meta president @DinaPowellMcC and @UFC president and Meta board member @danawhite announce.
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When Don told us that Ray-Ban Meta glasses gave him his independence back, we knew we had to help every blind veteran in America do the same. In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we’re humbled to share that in partnership with the @BlindedVeterans, @Tunnel2Towers, @HomesForOurTrps, and many others, we’re giving @Meta glasses to the blind veterans who have sacrificed for our country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Today @Meta is proud to launch America’s Workforce Academy with our partners. This program will provide paid training, certification and a job for Americans of all backgrounds to be part of building American leadership in the world. Because we believe the Future is for Everyone. wsj.com/opinion/high-tech-se…
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Matthew Lenz retweeted
Harnessing solar power from space and creating energy storage technology that far exceeds the capacity of today’s lithium-ion batteries.
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Using a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The @Independent calls it a "world first."
A blind runner plans to complete the Brighton Marathon wearing smart glasses that allow sighted people to give him directions in real time. More here: bbc.in/4bZqxYf
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Meta regularly partners with law enforcement to disrupt criminal scam networks based out of southeast Asia. Last week, the Royal Thai Police, FBI, DOJ Scam Center Strike Force and Meta joined together for a Joint Disruption Week in Bangkok, the second in just a few months.
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URI has appointed Pat Lyons as its next vice president and director of athletics. A Rhode Island native with 25+ years of Division I leadership experience, Lyons will lead @GoRhodyRams into their next chapter. Press conference on Mar. 11 at 11 a.m. ➡️ uri.edu/news/2026/03/univers…
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