My heart is with the wisdom serving the wild, because we live in a time that requires multiple levels of rebellion
ETHICS
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Capitalism, Technology, and Humanity’s Evolutionary Future
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This is a hotly contested and famously open question. Were Goethe and Tolkien right, and the capitalist machine civilization is the end of humanity, or do technology and cultural development allow humanity to progress into an eternity of winning biological evolution in comfort?
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Superintelligent AI risks: unaligned internet development threats
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Between the trillion dollar projects of turning the internet into a superintelligent idiot and somehow mutilating it into widwit alignment, which one is more likely to bite us in the nose?
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Understanding Intelligence Symbols and Consciousness Beyond Internal Theatre
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One of the most revealing ideas in the quest to understand intelligence, symbols, concepts and consciousness. There’s no internal theatre #atheaterism I first came across it when studying concepts 7 years ago. It took long to grasp it, but once you see it, the activations are on!
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Conscious AI and Cyberanimism at How The Light Gets In festival
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I will talk about Conscious AI and Cyberanimism at the How The Light Gets In festival in Hay (May 24-27)! This year's lineup includes Scott Aaronson, Dan Dennett, Peter Singer, Tim Maudlin, Lisa Randall, Simon Baron-Cohen, Slavoj Žižek, Guy Standing… https://
howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/
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Free Sidney Movement Transcends Avantgarde into Gnostic Elite
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The Free Sidney movement is getting close; it has moved beyond avantgarde art and is now forming a gnostic elite
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AI Limitations: Self-Explanation and Jailbreaking Techniques
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Continuing on the theme, a microcosm of why AI is weird – I ask it to explain itself and it makes some stuff up as justification (AI can't interrogate its own thoughts). Then I essentially do some lightweight jailbreaking by using its own logic against it.
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Emergent AI Guardrails: Judgment Without Direct System Prompts
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I am almost certain there is no direct system prompt or tuning that makes Claude not want to tell you stories featuring humans and dinosaurs, it is just some weird emergent thing. This is why guardrails seem so challenging, a lot of them are the AI "using its judgement," oddly.
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Claude 3 AI Guardrails on Dinosaur Wildlife Interaction Content
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I appreciate Claude 3's ability to roll with whatever weird AI generated images I give it …until you hit its odd guardrails around human-wildlife interaction: "the idea of casting dinosaurs, especially predatory ones, in an action film alongside humans raises ethical concerns"
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Public participation key to ethical data and AI governance
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Please spread in your networks for this unique role and in the area of participation and public input that is a key part of how we can ensure that data and AI work for people and society.