Alex Stamos ✓

@alexstamos · San Francisco, CA · joined 21 May 2009

Doing AI security stuff at https://t.co/dAzjWy3P9q and teaching at Stanford (https://t.co/qi1lzlkg3K).

91 144Followers

1 927Following

214Posts total

19.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views57 405this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %62.98%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.54%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	57 405	2 896	19.8×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	62.98%	9.51%	6.62×
Engagement rate	0.54%	1.56%	0.34×

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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

75.2K1 Jul

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7.9K7 Aug

21.5K18 Aug

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1.4M27 Aug

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66.7K30 Aug

16.3K31 Aug

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.54%1 Jul

0.59%

0.74%

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1.34%7 Aug

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1.03%30 Aug

0.91%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes72.6%54 175 in total

Reposts10.0%7 487 in total

Replies5.5%4 085 in total

Quotes6.3%4 703 in total

Bookmarks5.6%4 148 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.

Latest posts

If you know nothing about AI or cyber, both Dwarkesh and Chamath's takes are comforting shadows on the cave wall. The former interprets AI as having human-like motivations, the latter frames this entire incident as a psyop by people as cynical and unethical as him. More soon. 16.3K views · 131 likes · 9 reposts · 6 replies 31 Aug 2026 For anyone who avoided reading that Dwarkesh piece, too bad because I need you to at least experience this pain with me. https://t.co/Xxx18fCn8J 66.7K views · 573 likes · 43 reposts · 63 replies 30 Aug 2026 Proud to have @corridor's logo on this. AI is already massively uplifting attacker capabilities. I have compared it to every threat actor being promoted to the Premier League; there are no longer second tier groups lacking ability to do 0-day discovery and exploit development. 6.2K views · 27 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 27 Aug 2026 An open letter for a global surge in cyber defense, signed by over 100 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle. https://t.co/uKXPS8LdAU 1.4M views · 4K likes · 686 reposts · 399 replies 27 Aug 2026 Hey, @TsentaAi, are you bouncing your spammy AI job applications off of residential proxies? Do these people (and ISPs) know you are ruining their IP reputation and making it impossible for the people actually in that home to find a job? Does @ycombinator know about this? https:/ 10.9K views · 91 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 18 Aug 2026 Thank you to @DKThomp for the chance to talk about this summer's cybersecurity and AI craziness and what it means for the future on the Plain English Podcast. It's a challenge communicating these issues to the broader public but Derek is a pro. https://t.co/3dCcDDOS1Z 21.5K views · 31 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 18 Aug 2026 I would love to see a tiger team drawn from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (who apparently knows how to jail models) AISI, and independent experts take a look at all these escapes and quickly publish industry guidelines on isolation/airgaps/data diodes. https://t.co/z9nTn3tnab 7.9K views · 81 likes · 19 reposts · 5 replies 07 Aug 2026 The only upside I can see from this whole mess is that there is a whole bunch of VCs with former or current Administration affiliation who we can now safely ignore on AI policy. They have shown that everything they ever said on AI regulation was just politically motivated. 15.6K views · 150 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 01 Jul 2026 For all the “This is what Anthropic wanted” people/bots. No, they didn’t. They didn’t want a stupid, knee-jerk response on a Friday. We give the USG huge powers, this is why you staff it with competent, calm, non-corrupt people who don’t use those powers to punish enemies. 19.4K views · 186 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies 01 Jul 2026 @alexstamos I’d peg Amazon as the guilty party here. When the CEO of a big trusted tech company tells gov “this is bad,” of course they will freak out. Amazon should have known better and possibly had ulterior motives. 29.3K views · 104 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 01 Jul 2026 This was a huge own goal for the US, and we will see how bad US models get over the next six months and if Chinese models become noticeably better for cyber work. 59.8K views · 422 likes · 10 reposts · 7 replies 01 Jul 2026 In short, Anthropic's blog is saying: We have always cared about safety, we did a good job initially, the actual AI experts in USG agreed, we proved it, we will come up with standards so these things are better communicated, welcome to the AI safety club Trump admin. 56.9K views · 407 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 01 Jul 2026 5) "You don't have to get Dario on the phone to talk to us about these things. Other people work here, we swear." https://t.co/ZRMJxurNLJ 57.4K views · 328 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 01 Jul 2026 4) There is no good scoring framework for jailbreaks; this would be an improvement. The inclusion of Amazon as the first name in the coalition is not an accident. Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos". https:/ 75.2K views · 393 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 01 Jul 2026 "No big deal, just join the trusted group!" the apologists will say, but the restrictions mean you can't build a product on those models. Security companies and startups that provide services to others will now be driven to use Chinese models. Big win for PRC labs this month. 146.4K views · 609 likes · 29 reposts · 4 replies 01 Jul 2026 3) CAISI is the group that is supposed to actually make these determinations, not the political actors in the White House. They were positive on the prior safeguards. The implication is that this whole thing was unnecessary. https://t.co/AnRIm8ohws 86.4K views · 363 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 01 Jul 2026 2) Anthropic makes the cost of this White House freakout clear. US labs now have to make a much more conservative precision-recall tradeoff on cyber refusals. US models will become much less useful for defensive cybersecurity work unless you are in the trusted group. https://t.co 117.5K views · 531 likes · 29 reposts · 2 replies 01 Jul 2026 A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capability beyond what many other models, including Chinese models, could do. 1.5M views · 2.7K likes · 162 reposts · 21 replies 01 Jul 2026 Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding 15.7M views · 43.1K likes · 6.4K reposts · 3.6K replies 01 Jul 2026

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