Anna Wang ✓

@a_nnawang

in search of the deeply sincere. views not employer’s.

7 980Followers

1 011Following

849Posts total

5.4MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Anna Wang ✓@a_nnawang9 Sep

@a_nnawang Has anyone considered preventing the software from running unconstrained and perhaps having a human click "OK to continue" every hour or two? 33.2K views · 420 likes · 6 reposts · 74 replies Open on X →

Anna Wang ✓@a_nnawang9 Sep

See this post for more takes that I agree with: https://t.co/nHxgrT3uyo 142K views · 598 likes · 28 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Anna Wang ✓@a_nnawang9 Sep

I worked at Google DeepMind and now at Anthropic. This is a common sentiment amongst my peers. (I write this in personal capacity.) There is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recursively self-improving AI. Please look up! 2.4M views · 23.1K likes · 4.1K reposts · 882 replies Open on X →

Anna Wang ✓@a_nnawang9 Sep

I work at a lab because I think that I can do better at reducing risks from the inside, but this isn’t an easy call — I strongly respect and endorse others like Jacob, and @joeJben, who think that it’s better to do so from the outside. 145.1K views · 1.6K likes · 60 reposts · 54 replies Open on X →

Anna Wang ✓@a_nnawang9 Sep

[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).] Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI: 1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad 2.7M views · 21.4K likes · 4.2K reposts · 753 replies Open on X →

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5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views145 100this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %1818.30%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %1.19%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	145 100	4 175	34.8×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.2× audience	2.5× audience	7.25×
Engagement rate	1.19%	1.41%	0.84×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.7M9 Sep

145.1K

2.4M

142K

33.2K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.02%9 Sep

1.21%

1.19%

0.45%

1.52%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes67.3%47 163 in total

Reposts12.0%8 435 in total

Replies2.5%1 776 in total

Quotes1.7%1 211 in total

Bookmarks16.4%11 481 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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