Personally, I strongly support Chinese AI doomers and oppose American ones.
ETHICS
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Meta Releases Llama 3.1 with CyberSecEval 3 Trust Safety Research
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As part of the release of Llama 3.1, we also released new trust & safety research including CyberSecEval 3. We've published our research on this work to continue the conversation on empirically measuring LLM cybersecurity risks & capabilities. Paper https://
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The Dangers of AI Inbreeding and Synthetic Data
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The dangers of “AI Inbreeding” :
https://
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Local Expertise and Ownership Essential for AI Field Vigilance
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Happy to see the expert input from @nunuska and @seysoosey highlighting essential areas for our ongoing vigilance as a field of AI . As they both point out, this requires commitment to localised ownership and expertise – core parts of @DeepIndaba
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Will We Ever Die? Last Generation to Age Beliefs
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My friend told me that he has believed since childhood that he'll never die – that we're the last generation to age and die, except for irreversible accidents. I admit I have had the same belief. Maybe it was all those sci-fi books I read as a kid. What about you?
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Europe Bans Emotion Recognition AI, Limiting Social Intelligence
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Europe has outlawed emotion recognition, condemning AI to having no social intelligence.
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RCT Methodology Versus Observational Studies in AI Research
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Agree to be skeptical. Also RCT vs hodgepodge observational study, but it’s an interesting report
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AI Dehumanization: Critical Analysis and Research Findings
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"AI" is dehumanizing: https://
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preprint: https://
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Lead Poisoning Destroys Millions of IQ Points, Threatens Innovation
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Hundreds of millions of IQ points destroyed by lead poisoning. That can’t be good for innovation, productivity, crime or society
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AI-Generated Scam Books Flooding Amazon Platform
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And that increased volume and velocity is manifesting itself in obvious and non obvious ways https://
wired.com/story/scammy-a
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