Holly BrancoOperations Associate
Advocacy organization · Policy · Washington, D.C. · Est. 2020
Encode is a U.S. youth-led AI policy advocacy organization that works to shape laws and governance mechanisms for advanced AI systems, using coalition-building and public engagement to influence lawmakers at the state and federal levels. Encode describes its mission as advocating for AI governance that prevents AI-enabled catastrophes, keeps kids and families safe online, and prevents extreme power concentration, while arguing that policy should be built with a “dynamic view” of AI risks and benefits and informed by a wide expert “deep bench.”
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The post announces pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a model designed to encode document chunks using the full document context. It claims state-of-the-art results on ConTEB and Turbopuffer's privately held context-bench.
tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measuredA Hugging Face post about tokenizers v1, focusing on encoding, decoding, and measured scaling.
When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model ServingNVIDIA describes encode-prefill-decode disaggregation, an inference optimization technique that separates the vision encoder stage from the prefill stage for multimodal model serving.
NBC 5 Chicago: New Illinois law aims to prevent AI catastrophes before they happenEncode says Sunny Gandhi, co-executive director, characterized Illinois’ AI safety legislation as the strongest AI safety law in the country.
MTS: Why is the question no longer whether government regulates AI but how?Encode’s Nathan Calvin (general counsel) is quoted in connection with discussion of proportional, well-designed AI regulation developed with consultation from people who understand the technology.
80,000 Hours Podcast: Sneha Revanur on how a small team helped pass America’s AI safety lawsEncode summarizes a podcast conversation with founder Sneha Revanur about Encode’s experience advocating for AI safety laws and coalition strategy.