Instead of AI to create autonomous actors or social robots, think about how to use AI to amplify and augment humans. Great talk on AI for humans, by the inventor of web links and the smartphone keyboard, Ben Shneiderman.
ETHICS
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GPT-4 Debate Effectively Reduces Conspiracy Theory Beliefs
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Unexpected & big: it is famously hard to get people to stop believing in conspiracy theories, but… A controlled trial finds a 3 round debate with GPT-4 arguing the other side robustly lowers conspiracy theory beliefs and the effects persist over time, even for true believers.
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AI-Powered Adtech Systems Targeting Civilians: Ethics and Accountability
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The def of "it" is v important here bc what we're seeing IRL is e.g. repurposed adtech systems targeting people (their families, neighbors) for death based on probabilities in e.g. Gaza (see the recent +972 reporting). Space traffic control is fine but not driving AI hype or $
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Science Practices and AI Research Methodology
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Amazing run of posts reden. But do you have any good news about how science is done?
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AI skepticism versus LLM skepticism: Chapman and others
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François is smart, but does he count as an AI skeptic? He seems to be more an LLM skeptic. How about David Chapman?
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Tech leader refuses ethical exemption despite wealth
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I made my name and my money, so I can't exempt myself.
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Military AI Systems Infrastructure and Developer Responsibility
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I'm sitting this morning wondering which BigTech cloud the "Lavendar" & "Where's Daddy?" systems are running on. What APIs they might be using. Which libraries they're likely calling What work did my former colleagues, did I, did you contribute to that may now be enabling this?
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AI Targeting Ethics: Civilian Casualties and Autocratic Risks
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What are you worried autocracies will do, exactly, if "the West" doesn't do it first? Use AI to justify killing the families of probabilistically determined "targets" (determinations that are laughably imprecise)? Us AI to justify 100 civilians killed for every "senior target"?
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Google and DOD ethics governance fail to prevent harmful AI futures
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We argued then that a future like the present depicted in the sickening +972 reporting was in store if we didn't stop. And we were met with arguments that we shouldn't worry, because Google and DOD took ethics and governance seriously.
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Google AI researchers organized against military AI contracting 2017-2018
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Stopping military AI was what me + many AI researchers at Google organized around in 2017-2018, when G started contracting w/DOD. The prob is that corp profits & visions of military domination are more compelling to those making these calls than grounded analyses & moral clarity