Thank you @reckless for having me on your show @verge and for the great conversation! We covered it all, from the future of AI and what's after ChatGPT, to distributed work and how Dropbox got rid of all our offices, to our nostalgia for Winamp and manually organizing MP3s! 🥳 The Verge (@verge) Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI and remote work trib.al/eHxSvPL — https://nitter.net/verge/status/1779873814886613364#m
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Madhumita Murgia discusses CODE DEPENDENT human agency and AI
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I’ll be in Cambridge on Saturday, in conversation with @ginasue about my book CODE DEPENDENT and its themes of human agency and power in an age of
AI – come say hi! Details here: https://
cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/madhumi
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AI as Software Process Not Conscious Entity Anthropomorphism
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I think a lot of the problem is that people see AI as an entity, rather than a software process that runs on text to produce an output. Entities remember what they see, even if they pretend they are keeping secrets. Anthropomorphism can be a problem at times!
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Big Tech’s Ad-Surveillance Model and Media Centralization Problem
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It's the business model, the ad-surveillance driven incentives, and the centralization of our media ecosystem that need to be addressed. This does none of that, it simply gives a large co the ability to define "nuance" "evidence based reasoning" etc..
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BigTech AI Content Moderation: Control Consolidation Without Accountability
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TLDR: to 'solve' trash content on trash surveillance platforms, BigTech AI will flag whether content is 'good' or not. Can we please stop falling for this? This isn't 'solving' the problem. It's simply consolidating control over platforms w/o attending to who will wield it.
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Extremism and the erosion of free speech defense
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And, sadly, the fairly predictable result of abandoning defense of speech and expression to extremists.
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Free Expression Under Threat: AI and Dissent Rights
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Incredibly alarming for anyone invested in free expression and the right to dissent.
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AI Researcher’s Matrix Moment: Trash Can from Qualia Zero
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As an AI researcher, ordering a trash can and it coming from “Qualia zero” seems like something is telling me I am still in the Matrix.
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Society Accepts AI Integration and Transformation
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Society seems to have come to terms with that
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Privacy implications of always-on home microphones versus wearable recording devices
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I think Alexa at home is different – there you are opting into having a microphone in your own personal space – not the same thing as openly wearing a microphone out in the world visibly in front of strangers