ETHICS

Information Control and Intellectual Worker Protection in AI Era

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29 November 2023 14h00

Both the control of information (and religious dogma) and the protection of scribes.

AI and Books Enable Knowledge Access, Reject Doom Scenarios

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29 November 2023 13h48

Printed books and AI systems both serve to enable better access to knowledge. They both make people smarter, more creative, & more productive.
That's intrinsically good.
That's the reality. Scenarios of AI-fueled doom are imaginary bullshit.
New forms of medieval obscurantism.

UAE Minister Warns Against Premature AI Technology Regulation

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29 November 2023 13h07

The UAE Minister of AI @OmarSAlolama points to a historical precedent of premature technology regulation motivated by fear: the ban of the printing press in 1515 by Sultan Selim I led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. “We overregulated a technology, which was the printing

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Prioritize regulating AI in social and economic domains

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29 November 2023 8h54

They want to make us believe that regulating AI technologically will save us. Yet we must first regulate its application in the social and economic domain! For decades, automation has been downgrading workers to increase

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We Must Embrace AI’s Uncertain Future with Optimism

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29 November 2023 8h44

Le journal @LaTribune résume ma pensée sur l’IA : « Nous sommes montés dans un véhicule qui va de plus en plus vite et dont on ne sait pas où il va, s'exclame Rafik Smati […]. Mais il se veut optimiste.» Optimiste ? À vrai dire, nous n’avons pas le choix. Soit nous embrassons

Fluency Does Not Equal Intelligence in Large Language Models

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29 November 2023 2h43

Good essay on the fallacy of assuming that LLMs are intelligent because they are fluent.