So does OpenAI agree it’s time for a slowdown?
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Anthropic co-founder: self-aware superhuman coder with nation-state hacking
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6. Co-founder @jackclarkSF tells new recruits in a monthly welcome talk titled “Anthropic is not a normal company”: “we’re selling a superhuman coder that is increasingly self-aware and has nation-state hacking capabilities. Get hobbies that aren’t computers.”
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AI insider Daniela Amodei finds tech vertigo despite predictability
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5. AI insiders aren’t immune to the feeling of vertigo we all have with this tech. @DanielaAmodei says the last year has been like a split screen for her – predictable on paper but still “mind boggling” to live through.
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Desiring agency in shaping our own future beyond AI leaders’ visions
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So far, we’ve been passive. The visions being offered to us come mostly from AI leaders- Machines of Loving Grace by Amodei, Nobel Prize-winning science by Hassabis, Intelligence Age by Altman. But how can we have agency in building our own future?
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What do we really want from AI? A hopeful question.
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For a while now, I’ve been thinking about what really cuts through the barrage of noise about AI in the public domain. Because we’re human, it isn’t dire warnings about jobs or existential doom, but a hopeful, optimistic question – what do we really want from AI?
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AI Transparency and Cognitive Impact on Developing Brains Needed
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At the minimum, transparency in what queries lead to which outputs (interpretability), how this connects to educational principles/pedagogy, more evidence of how this may impact cognition, especially of developing brains, in the short, medium and long term.
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Concerns Over Unregulated AI Technology Deployed to Children
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How have we got to the point where we are rolling out untested/unregulated AI technology to kids while they are literally in the process of learning?!
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Rival AI Companies Use PR Tactics to Discredit Competitors
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Sometimes investors in rival ai companies actively brief reporters that things are hyped for marketing reasons! So I’d say it isn’t just a journalism vs tech industry thing..
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Thiel-backed platform rates journalists via LLM, threatens source protection
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A Thiel-backed platform to serve people who feel “misrepresented in the media”. Great piece about a wild idea. Imagine being rated a good journalist by an LLM for divulging sensitive source information to this startup, and being downgraded for protecting anonymity..
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Reset needed: AI news coverage importance balanced with life priorities
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Yep. Also there needs to be a reset in how we perceive AI as news. It’s extremely consequential (I say this as someone who has covered since 2012!) but there are other consequential & meaningful things in life worth paying attention to. There is currently info overload with AI.