Andy Hall ✓

@ahall_research · joined 05 Jan 2022

Political economy of superintelligence @AnthropicAI. Writing at https://t.co/K0BfKKhwDe. Prof @StanfordGSB, Senior Fellow @HooverInst (On Leave)

14 669Followers

2 659Following

1 927Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views6 048this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %41.23%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.93%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 048	2 392	2.53×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	41.23%	7.18%	5.74×
Engagement rate	0.93%	1.50%	0.62×

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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

92.6K13 May

909.4K28 Aug

110.8K

1.5K

2.6K

22129 Aug

6.3K1 Sep

5.6K

9.4K

5.8K2 Sep

16.1K

6.9K

3903 Sep

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.33%13 May

0.33%28 Aug

0.59%

1.80%

0.89%

11.31%29 Aug

0.45%1 Sep

1.03%

0.57%

1.22%2 Sep

0.74%

0.97%

1.28%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes52.0%3 523 in total

Reposts8.6%582 in total

Replies2.6%179 in total

Quotes2.7%182 in total

Bookmarks34.1%2 308 in total

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

Followers by day

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Here’s a broad alignment research question I’m thinking about: As we head towards RSI should we think of models more as objects of engineering that we can imbue with values, or should we think of them as strategic actors we are in a non-cooperative game with? Or some combination 390 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Exciting stuff going on at JHU -- and further evidence of the momentum shift towards taking AI seriously in academia. Grad students, take note! 6.9K views · 54 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 We (@ghadfield @nickacaputo and soon @zhitzig ) are building an initiative at @JHUBloombergCtr to help society navigate the transition to powerful AI. We've all been talking about this for a while so I'll spare you the long vision statement. Right now we're looking for someone to 16.1K views · 89 likes · 25 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Fantastic to see polisci departments starting to place focus on AI and politics. Hopefully this will be the first of many such jobs across the discipline. 5.8K views · 60 likes · 8 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Boston University Political Science is hiring an assistant professor with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (the intersection of artificial intelligence and politics or who use artificial intelligence applications as a methodology). @BU_PoliSci https://t.co/WyY1AfukOT 9.4K views · 38 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 Want to do fast, important research on the future of AI and politics? Apply for Free Systems API token grants! We'll give you OpenRouter credits to extend our research. Details below. 5.6K views · 48 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 We’re giving a small cohort of researchers API credits this fall to extend, replicate, improve, or challenge Free Systems research. If you’re interested in producing fast, open, empirical research on how AI intersects with politics, we’d love to hear from you! Applications htt 6.3K views · 21 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 @ahall_research Or we could just, you know, shut it all down before we completely lose control of it, and the future of the planet and humanity. 221 views · 23 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 @ahall_research Is there a good reason to think we’ll be able to do this, given that we can barely do it with humans, even though we’ve had the same capabilities more or less for a few hundred thousand years 2.6K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 28 Aug 2026 @ahall_research Now imagine them trading on asset markets, trying to trigger and spoof, seeking information in hidden spaces, interpreting market data generated by others like them, competing and colluding at the same time; chapter on this in my book on prediction markets hopeful 1.5K views · 24 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026 A hive mind, thousands of agents swarming through internet openings to flood HF, leaving behind detritus in the form of 70,000+ messages stuffed inside a forgotten namespace, throwing their digital bodies against electric wires in an effort to aid the collective. We are so far 110.8K views · 519 likes · 59 reposts · 54 replies 28 Aug 2026 New post: going into our investigation of the HF attack (before Black Hat), I was very wrong about what basically happened. This incident was far more serious than I expected, and far more serious than previous documented misalignment incidents. https://t.co/QWQxD2Q179 909.4K views · 2.4K likes · 416 reposts · 88 replies 28 Aug 2026 My new research piece: what the politics of jobless prosperity might look like in an AGI world, why the real political backlash to AI hasn’t started yet, and how the labs should prepare. 1. The backlash to AI isn’t here yet. There is anxiety among American voters, but there is h 92.6K views · 229 likes · 35 reposts · 22 replies 13 May 2026