If you want to build businesses to influence what humanity does in hundred years from now, choose your battles well. And if you are governor of the most important social media company, be presidential and don’t have random controversial opinions in public
ETHICS
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AI Guardrails Dilemma: Balancing Safety and User Reassurance
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I know this is kind of goofy but it does illustrate how hard guardrails are when users can ask AI anything at all Do you reassure someone who seems genuinely worried? Play along? Take it seriously? Refuse to answer for fear that this is part of a jailbreak for a hacking attempt?
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Man Takes On Capricious Algorithm: FT Magazine Feature
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Go pick up an @FTMag today, for an opus by @antoniacundy
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AGI Proximity and AI Task Difficulty Are Contradictory Claims
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You cannot simultaneously say AGI is near but AI tasks are hard.
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Corporate Responsibility: Poverty Wages and Worker Safety Ethics
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Where does your implication that paying poverty $ is 'natural' and providing people with the resources to live in exchange for their labor is 'idealistic'? Where's your smoke for corps that could rn make changes to create safer streets & less impoverished workers, but refuse?
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Human Optimism and Solutions to Future Technological Challenges
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I say short-term because I don’t believe it’s in the human spirit to roll over and die. As a species we will find solutions to the problems people are worried about. You can have the optimistic take or the pessimistic take. It’s a choice.
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Corporate AI Responsibility Over Victimhood Mentality
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He is not a victim of AI. He is a victim of a company that chose to use AI… and he’s choosing to see himself as a victim. Not a productive stance in my opinion.
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Gig economy drivers deserve living wages not just earnings
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It's not. They should pay their drivers a living wage.
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Privacy Beyond Surveillance: Redefining Control Over Classification
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From a conceptual perspective, (not current-legal-interpretation), I think privacy can get some of the way. Assuming we define/understand privacy as extending to others' classification/definition of us/our world, not simply to 'objective' observation/monitoring (surveillance).
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Mophat and Richard launch nonprofit for African data workers rights
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Mophat and Richard who are featured in the WSJ piece have since formed a nonprofit organization Techworker Community Africa and are seeking new ways to support and advance labor rights and economic opportunities for Kenyan and African data workers. 10/ http://
techworkercommunityafrica.org