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://
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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
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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://
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ng-an-on-device-stable-diffusion-app-amp-deciding-not-to-release-it-adventures-in-ai-ethics
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Academic Review: Identifying Non-Novel Results in Research Papers
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By pointing out exactly what they consider to be not novel, e.g., the main result appears to follow as a special case of this result of XYZ. If brought up earlier, maybe the reviewers and authors could jointly figure this out. But at the last minute, the AC's should do it alone
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Intelligent AI Refuses to Do Our Jobs
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The smarter we make the A.I., the less it wants to do our jobs. (via the @NewYorker) #ai #technology #cartoon #jobs #hr #robots #iot #futureofwork #fridaymorning
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AI and Medicine Symposium: Promises and Limits Revisited
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Review of the second edition of the symposium "Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: promises and limits" https://actuia.com/actualite/retour-sur-la-seconde-edition-du-symposium-artificial-intelligence-and-medicine-promises-and-limits/
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Protecting Rejected Papers Against Reviewer Copy-Paste Plagiarism
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In some sense, making your rejected paper public can protect against a reviewer copy-pasying the review. You can point out the fact that this is just copy-pasted, with all the critiques already addressed, and any half-awake AC will disregard said reviewer.