I finally have this book, written by James E. Dobson, professor of creative writing & English. Good thing we're getting rid of the humanities am I right? Explains my aversion to the computer vision field in which I got my PhD. All military & surveillance.
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Neural Networks Inherit Cold War Era Biases and Worldviews
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"Today’s most advanced neural networks & sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—& many biases & ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them."
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Advanced surveillance weapons tested on oppressed populations first
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The most advanced automated surveillance & other weapons are first tested on oppressed people. Entire books have been written about, specifically, Palestinians. Like the book below And we have privileged people pontificating about "existential risks."
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Privacy Violations in Large Language Models Through Inference
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Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy Via Inference with Large Language Models Staab et al.: https://
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Influential figures push governments ban open source AI
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Because a bunch of influential people think AI is too dangerous to make available to everyone and are actively lobbying governments to make open source AI illegal.
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Skill Development Strategy for Emerging AI Challenges
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“Are you worried?” No, because I have put an absurd number of skill points into being good at this sort of thing. But I imagine typical family who had been here for <2 months would be sweating bullets at the moment.
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AIPI Distances Itself from EA Despite Repeated Scandals
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Colson, the leader of AIPI, has recently tried to distance himself from EA, which faced a storm of controversy last year after one of its biggest backers, the cryptocurrency magnet Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested on fraud charges. Nothing seems to bring them down really.
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Billionaire-Backed Think Tanks Dominate AI Policy in Washington
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Meanwhile, on this dumpster fire, "Several well-monied think tanks focusing on artificial intelligence policy have sprung up in Washington, D.C. in recent months, with most linked to the billionaire-backed effective altruism (EA) movement…"
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How Do We Know What’s Real Anymore? AI Reality Crisis
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How do we know what’s real anymore?
— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) 20 octobre 2023
I’ll let @rpnickson explain, things are about to become wild.
pic.twitter.com/BBoa5JksyGHow do we know what’s real anymore? I’ll let @rpnickson explain, things are about to become wild.
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70 Professors Selected for 2023 Inclusion Research Award
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After receiving applications from over 300+ institutions globally, 70 professors were selected for the 2023 Award for Inclusion Research! Please help us congratulate them and learn more here: http://
goo.gle/AIR-2023