Empathy may not make you rich, but it makes the world a better place.
ETHICS
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Billionaire Narcissism and Economic Inequality in Tech Acquisitions
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As I said in my post, "I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s (current) richest man pay the billion dollar annual interest on the loans he took out to buy the place on a weird narcissistic whim."
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Student Conference Access and Educational Equity Priorities
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Fair is another question. But if it's a question of my student going to a conference or not, I'll do whatever I can to send them. Things don't always work out fair.
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Critical Systems Safety: AI in Hospitals and Nuclear Plants
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It is exactly the type of complex system they describe. Hospitals. Nuclear plants. All places where accidents are rare, but catastrophic
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Social Networks Reduce Ethnic Tensions Through Cross-Group Connections
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There are glimpses of a world where social networks are a force for good, the way they lowered ethnic tensions in Bosnia. People randomly chosen to deactivate Facebook had more dislike of other ethnic groups after, since it was the only place they met people from those groups!
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Fair Layoff Communication Reduces Employee Litigation Risk
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Layoffs are terrible, but they are even worse if employees think the process was unfair & obscure. They act accordingly. In this study, 17% of people who felt that their employer was unfair about a layoff sued, compared to 1% of those who felt that the process was clear & honest
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How to Make AI Safe: Key Solutions and Safeguards
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how could you make it safe? with a great answer to that, we'd definitely be open
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Democracy increases moral universalism globally survey finds
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Giant worldwide survey looks at universalism (a willingness to treat strangers the same way you treat friends/community members) & finds 26% of people are strongly universalist & 18% are the opposite. Exposure to democracy causally increases universalism. https://
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
moral-universalism-global-evidence
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TikTok’s utilization of AI models for data analysis
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Nouvelle Vidéo Youtube ce Dimanche. TikTok une simple application de divertissement? Non. On verra comment #TikTok est une arme dangereuse grâce à vos données personnelles et des modèles d'#IA parmis les plus puissant de la planète. https://
youtube.com/c/defendintell
igence-tech
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Ethics of Releasing On-Device Stable Diffusion Applications
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Interesting read; though releasing or not releasing a port to something that widely exists doesn’t really change anything, does it? https://
cephalopod.studio/blog/on-creati
ng-an-on-device-stable-diffusion-app-amp-deciding-not-to-release-it-adventures-in-ai-ethics
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