I finally have this book, written by James E. Dobson, professor of creative writing & English. Good thing we're getting rid of the humanities am I right? Explains my aversion to the computer vision field in which I got my PhD. All military & surveillance.
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Neural Networks Inherit Cold War Era Biases and Worldviews
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"Today’s most advanced neural networks & sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—& many biases & ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them."
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Advanced surveillance weapons tested on oppressed populations first
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The most advanced automated surveillance & other weapons are first tested on oppressed people. Entire books have been written about, specifically, Palestinians. Like the book below And we have privileged people pontificating about "existential risks."
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AIPI Distances Itself from EA Despite Repeated Scandals
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Colson, the leader of AIPI, has recently tried to distance himself from EA, which faced a storm of controversy last year after one of its biggest backers, the cryptocurrency magnet Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested on fraud charges. Nothing seems to bring them down really.
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Billionaire-Backed Think Tanks Dominate AI Policy in Washington
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Meanwhile, on this dumpster fire, "Several well-monied think tanks focusing on artificial intelligence policy have sprung up in Washington, D.C. in recent months, with most linked to the billionaire-backed effective altruism (EA) movement…"
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Open AI Research Leader Dismisses Serious Concerns About Hospital Damage
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"Head of Research Platform" at Open AI retweets something that says the hospital is totally fine except for some shattered windows. This is what we're dealing with. Those are not the people who are fired, doxxed, harassed, threatened & gaslit. This is the field of "AI".
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Machine Learning Field’s History of Racism and Dehumanization
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The field of machine learning has always been incredibly racist, finding it very easy to dehumanize those it’s dominant groups find to be “uncivilized.”
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Observations on the Character of AI Industry Leaders
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I mean we've been seeing what the "AI" leaders are like at this point.
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Timnit Gebru shares a link on X platform
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Smart Shooter AI-Based Fire Control System Technology
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Like this one called Smart Shooter, advertised as developing “fire control systems based on AI, computer vision, and machine learning technologies” with the motto “one shot, one hit.”