NEW!!!! This collection of essays on AI Nationalism is so timely, so fresh, so smart. I'm so grateful to be in the @AINowInstitute orbit and work with people brilliantly & consistently pushing a reality-based analysis forward, against the torrent of hype. READ READ READ
@mer__edith
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Government AI Risk Report Criticized as Unsubstantiated Policy Prescription
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What? Govs hire consultants daily to write whatever. Often, they produce trash. Here, a v small consultancy wrote a report for USG amplifying discredited X-risk ideologies + prescribing bad policy. AFAICT it's based based on ~5 ppl's hunches? Why're we taking this seriously? https://
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Corporate Climate Responsibility Displacement in AI Industry Reports
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Note that this specious and self-serving displacement of climate responsibility is effectively mirrored in this report, which sloppily assumes that people engaged in waged work for a corporations are themselves responsible for the climate impact of said work.
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Iatrogenic False Solutions in Current AI Proposals
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(Bonus, for the vocab builders among us, the word 'iatrogenic' is helpful in metaphorically describing the false solution space current proposals present.)
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AI Now Institute Report on Compute and AI Policy
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And this stellar report from @AINowInstitute — @sarahbmyers and Jai Vipra 9/ https://
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Gen AI Hype: Solution Seeking Problem, Billions at Risk
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In reality, there is a thick cloud of smokey hype around AI, and it's not clear that the promises being made by the corps betting billions will ever be fulfilled (IMO gen AI is ~a solution in search of a problem so big it justifies the $$ to create/run it, which few do). 6/
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Public Funding Diversion: AI Research vs Essential Services
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Which raises a much more urgent question: does AI justify the diversion of such funding from, say, libraries, parks, schools, etc. to Google, Amazon, Microsoft on behalf of research? And if so, where's the hard proof backing this significant tradeoff? 7/
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Government funding Big Tech deepens corporate AI infrastructure control
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BUT the current proposals to alleviate this imbalance largely exacerbate it. Insofar as they amount to gov paying Big Tech to get academics access to Big Tech resources. This strengthens Big Tech control & further normalize access to Big Tech infra as "the way AI gets done." 4/
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Academic AI Research Dependency on Big Tech Infrastructure
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IRL, no academic can afford to pay retail ($100b training runs, y'all). So, academic labs vie for access/proximity to Big Tech infra in pursuit of doing 'relevant' research–something that should alarm fans of academic neutrality/those concerned w conflict of interest. 3/
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Big Tech Marketing and AI Resource Allocation Critique
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But it's not just this. By accepting the frame that such access is vital/necessary, we're buying into Big Tech marketing that says AI is real, lasting, and requires the diversion of billion$ (that could be spent otherwise). 5/