If you believe in AGI then I don’t see how you can believe that anything you do as a meer human will align it.
@nathanbenaich
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Anthropic CEO predicts AGI timeline scaling laws insights
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True true. "Anthropic pitch deck, scaling laws, CEO of the biggest lab & the founder of the field saying it could be a few years away" This is the biggest finger in the wind methinks.
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How Existential Risk Became the Biggest Meme in AI
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https://
technologyreview.com/2023/06/19/107
5140/how-existential-risk-became-biggest-meme-in-ai/
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Existential Risk in AI: Extrapolation Without Evidence
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“Extrapolating without evidence” How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI.
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AI as New National Purpose: Strategic Policy Direction
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You can read more here: https://
airstreet.com/blog/tbi-new-n
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UK drops Horizon funding standoff amid weak negotiating position
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And by swallowing our pride and ending the pointless stand-off over Horizon funding. With such a weak hand, we’re in no place to quibble over the bill.
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UK AI Standards Leadership Through NATO Defence Initiatives
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Moving to international issues – we’ve heard about the gov's aspirations to make the UK an international centre for AI standards. We can do this via @NATO – which is taking important steps in building its own certification start-ups and backing early-stage defence via DIANA
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Government Data Sharing With Industry: Palantir NHS Controversy
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we’ll have to become significantly more comfortable with the government sharing data with industry – we’ve already seen successive governments propose changes here only to abandon them following public opposition – like the ongoing row at the moment around Palantir and NHS data.
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Public Services Technology Requires Money Data Private Sector
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We need to have a mature conversation about the trade-offs: there’s no world where we can build high-quality, technology-first public services that don’t require any money, data, or private sector involvement.
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AI in NHS: Investment Over Technology as Reform Solution
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We face the same challenges in public services – where appeals to AI to drive reform are seen wrongly as an alternative to upfront investment. Several years ago, DeepMind documented why they weren’t able to go in and apply AI to the NHS…