ETHICS

Accountability Buffer Perfect Solution for AI Systems

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04 April 2024 16h42

Yes. A perfect accountability buffer.

Military AI Evolution: From Perceptrons to Autonomous Weapons

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04 April 2024 16h37

Military AI has existed, arguably, since Rosenblatt's perceptrons , funded by US military in the 1950s. What's 'different' here is not simply the scale and sophistication — it's the indiscriminate slaughter being authorized via AI.

Encryption Privacy Tradeoff in Tech Narratives

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04 April 2024 14h57

Fair! I opted for a punchy descriptor, but the net is we traded the ability to deploy/develop encryption for privacy as a substantive value, and didn't acknowledge this is what we were doing in the war stories we told.

AI Systems Targeting Flaws Raise Critical Ethics Concerns

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04 April 2024 14h36

Or, to be pedantic, when laughably imprecise “AI” systems probabilistically determined someone was a worthy target of death (think ad targeting but for killing) IDF waited until they went home and killed them and their family and their neighbors and their pets and etc.

Google drops contract following apartheid activism campaign

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04 April 2024 13h11

We got Google to drop one contract. And people were fired and pushed out in the process. @NoTechApartheid bravely continues the effort.

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AI Augmenting Humans: Ben Shneiderman’s Vision

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04 April 2024 0h28

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.

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GPT-4 Debate Effectively Reduces Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

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03 April 2024 23h59

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.

3 April 2024

AI-Powered Adtech Systems Targeting Civilians: Ethics and Accountability

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03 April 2024 23h57

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 $