Yet Another ICML Award Fiasco https://
bit.ly/3r9eyEk #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #LLMs #DataScience
ETHICS
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ICML Award Controversy Raises Questions in Machine Learning
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Concerns about artificial general intelligence development and risks
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This is the whole artificial general intelligence situation but hey I'm just overreacting right?
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DeepMind Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist Criticized
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And not just ANY AI people. Co-founder of Deepmind and their "chief AGI scientist" as is listed on the bio.
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Congress addresses exploitative labor practices in AI industry
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Wow I never thought I’d see the day. Thrilled to see Congress taking up the issue of exploitative labor practices in the AI industry, and incredible to see the work of so many people I admire cited along with my own. https://
jayapal.house.gov/2023/09/13/rep
-jayapal-sen-markey-lead-colleagues-in-demanding-answers-from-ai-companies-on-use-of-underpaid-overworked-data-workers/
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TESCREAL bundle influences catastrophic risk and politics discourse
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Yep the #TESCREAL bundle is running the show. H/t @xriskology "Leigh will borrow the estimate of Oxford philosopher Toby Ord in a speech on Friday exploring the intersection between catastrophic risk and extreme politics” https://
theguardian.com/australia-news
/2023/sep/22/one-in-six-chance-of-a-species-ending-event-in-next-century-labor-mp-andrew-leigh-warns
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Confrontation with Shane Legg over paper misrepresentation claims
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Well. I now have a guess for where they got this from, and Shane Legg is out here telling me I’m misrepresenting his paper. The nerve. https://
arxiv.org/pdf/0712.3329.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky denies wanting to control ASI
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Who told you the lie that I wanted to centralize ASI or control it? I want it to not exist. I cannot control it. It kills everyone regardless of who thinks they control it.
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Eugenicist Sources in AI Research: Bell Curve Citation Controversy
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Citing an editorial defending the well known eugenicist 1994 book The Bell Curve by Charles Murray. They even cite the book itself in the paper. The editorial has a Wikipedia entry given its issues. Lets not even get to the authors they repeatedly cite.
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Race Intelligence Research Ethics in AI Development
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"The statement defended Herrnstein & Murray's controversial claims about race & intelligence, including the claim that average intelligence quotient (IQ) differences between racial & ethnic groups may be at least partly genetic in origin…." This book is also cited in the paper