Either turning a non-profit into a for-profit is legal and everyone should be doing it or it’s illegal and OpenAI is a house of cards.
ETHICS
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SB 1047 Internet Safety Bill Could Have Prevented Silicon Valley’s Rise
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If California had passed an Internet safety bill like SB 1047 in 1994, none of the Internet giants would be there and Silicon Valley would be a backwater. Over to you, @CAgovernor
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Judgment Day perpetually approaching in the near future
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Judgment Day is only a few years away, and always will be.
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Challenging Assumptions About AI Consciousness and Comparison Validity
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And my point is how do we know it is not an apt comparison? You (and everyone since the 1955 proposal for the 1956 AI workshop) assume it is not apt. But that is an assumption. I know that this question makes people’s heads hurt. Welcome to hard issues of science. At a shallower
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California SB 1047 Would Hinder AI Development and Safety
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There’s still time to stop California’s SB 1047 from becoming law. For @TIME
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time.com/collection/tim
e100-voices/7016134/california-sb-1047-ai/
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Balancing Efficiency with Humanity in Technology
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@GageGrammer
, ha! You made my day! I love that you're inspired to write a blog post! Yay! I was inspired to write this because it's vital to remember that efficiency should never come at the cost of our humanity. Striking the right balance—where human touch meets technological -
LLMs Generate Covert Racism Based on Dialect Features
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Beyond excited to share that this is now out in @Nature! We show that despite efforts to remove overt racial bias, LLMs generate covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Joint work with amazing co-authors @ria_kalluri, @jurafsky, and Sharese King. Valentin Hofmann (@vjhofmann) 💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵 — https://nitter.net/vjhofmann/status/1764687418626576445#m
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Differential Privacy: Dwork, Rothblum’s Monograph and Educational Resources
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In the DP realm, Dwork and @Aaroth wrote a great monograph a decade ago (
https://
cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers
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https://
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Who Controls the Message: Content Creator or Executor
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The person writing the teleprompter is in charge, not the person reading from it.