There is no known contract with Hamas. There is a large, and well documented contract with the Israeli military.
ETHICS
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Tech Workers Stand Against Harmful AI Development
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Well, because it's not legal. But beyond that, why say this? Aren't you heartened that some of the most powerful/least accountable corps in the world employ people willing to stand up to management on behalf of those harmed by the technologies they develop and profit from?
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Mitigating Prompt Injection: Disable Markdown Images and Links
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While prompt injection remains unsolved, for this particular issue there is a known mitigation: don't ever support markdown (or HTML) images that load images from domains you do not control! More painful but also necessary: don't support outbound clickable links either
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Tech Workers Stand Against Harmful AI Development
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Why would you say that? Are you not heartened that some of the most powerful yet least accountable corporations in the world employ people willing to stand up to management on behalf of those harmed by the technologies they develop and profit from?
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Geoff’s departure over weapons research rejection explained
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On Geoff moving due to rejection of weapons research (a mention, I'd love a more fulsome account if anyone knows one)
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MIT Research Strike Raises Questions About AI Ethics
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On the MIT research strike: https://
web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/314
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Google Workers Protest Nimbus AI Project Israel Gaza
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Read more here: https://
wired.com/story/google-n
o-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/
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Tech Workers’ Historic Stand Against Weapons Development
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This is a historic tech action.
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) 16 avril 2024
A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons. https://t.co/CiBi0SoDxkThis is a historic tech action. A long proud tradition. From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.
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Why LLMs Are More Persuasive Than Humans Study
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We know that LLMs are more persuasive than most humans, this study offers some tentative reasons why that may be true: LLMs produce arguments that are MORE morallly charged than humans do, and which require more cognitive work from humans to understand https://
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.09329
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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
ta-murgia/
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