François is smart, but does he count as an AI skeptic? He seems to be more an LLM skeptic. How about David Chapman?
ETHICS
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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
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Human Annotation Still Essential for Machine Learning Model Improvement
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Did you really think there were no humans in the loop? Quoting from the article — “The primary role of our Machine Learning data associates is to annotate video images, which is necessary for continuously improving the underlying machine learning model powering,” said an
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GitLab Data Deletion: Cultural Failing in User Trust
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Normally I'd agree – companies make mistakes. But this was such a big one! For me it speaks to a cultural failing – I would hope that an organization like GitLab would have "don't delete data that our users have trusted to us" as a key principle
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LLMs Gullibility: The HR Truth Detection Challenge
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A key skill in HR (and anything related to management) is being able to figure out when people are lying – and then piece together the ground truth LLMs are inherently gullible
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AI Targeting System Gaza: Probabilistic Bias Ethics Concerns
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AI IDing human targets in Gaza based on probabilistic stereotypes (37K people!). People familiar w/AI know how inaccurate such assessments are. Targets' homes are then bombed at night when they (their family, neighbors, pets) are most likely to be home https://
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is
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