The idea that knowledge is too dangerous for people to have access to it has a name:
Obscurantism.
@ylecun
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Knowledge Access and Obscurantism in AI Era
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Open Source Democratizes Problem-Solving for Innovation
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Actually, the open source approach makes it a problem that can be solved by everyone who is competent, creative, and innovative.
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Reconsidering Meta’s Role in AI Development
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Either that, or your prejudice of Meta should be revised.
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Exclusion from AI Safety Summit Second Day Raises Questions
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I wasn't invited to the 2nd day of the AI Safety Summit
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AI’s Role in Cancer Research: Collaboration and Resources Required
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That's because finding cures for cancer with the help of AI will involve thousands of the best biomedical and computer scientists in the world, with lots of funding, lots of computing resources, lots of open information exchange, and lots of clinical trials. On the contrary,
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Open Letter to Biden: AI Regulation Must Support Open Source
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I signed this open letter to President Biden to argue that Executive Orders and regulations of AI should promote open source AI platforms, and certainly not hinder them. Signed by execs from Meta, HF, Mistral, Shopify… as well as a number of prominent execs from the VC world.
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Open-Source AI Defense at AI Safety Summit
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I'm glad @arthurmensch and @nickclegg were present for the second day of the AI Safety Summit to defend the idea of open-source AI research, code, and models. (I was there the 1st day but wasn't invited to the 2nd day)
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AI Safety Expert Discusses Real-World Challenges and Risk Exaggeration
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Very interesting thread from a computer security expert.
He says:
1. Building something that works in the real world is harder than what most armchair AI safety folks think.
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Microsoft’s Strategic Shift: From Linux Resistance to Adoption
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I remember those days very well.
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AI Against Brainwashing: Superintelligence as Solution
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Nothing new here.
Religious and political dogmas have been brainwashing people into doing bad things for millennia. It will be much easier to stop superhuman AI from brainwashing people than it's been to stop conventional brainwashing.
In fact, AI might help.