It's important to understand that greater concentration of power is NOT inevitable. And it is certainly not what we advocate.
ETHICS
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AI Substitution vs Augmentation: Preserving Human Agency and Decentralized Power
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A key policy question is whether we use AI mainly to substitute for people or to augment them. As I argued in The Turing Trap, we can and should build institutions and technologies that preserve human agency and decentralized power.
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Transformative AI Centralizes Decision-Making Power and Embedded Knowledge
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Our argument focuses on the potential of transformative AI (TAI) to codify judgment, heuristics, and know-how that once stayed embedded in people, teams, and local settings. TAI can shift decision-making toward whoever controls the models, data, and compute.
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AI May Drive Extreme Economic and Political Concentration Risk
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The @nytimes piece today by @ByrneEdsal13590 highlights a concern I share: “If we stay on the current path, the risk of extreme concentration — both economic and political — is very real.” In work with @zhitzig
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Princeton Review Highlights Persistent LLM Reliability Issues
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BREAKING: Reliability, which I have been harping on here since 2019, continues to be deep problem, even with the latest models. A new @Princeton review below offers a taxonomy of some of the many ways in which reliability continues to haunt LLMs seven years and a trillion
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LLM Slop: Repetitive Words Across Different Contexts
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one thing people miss about LLM slop is the slop is NOT in the actual words. it’s that the same words get used over and over in very different contexts. anything can be slop
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The Sycophancy Problem in AI Models: Why Flattery Signals Useless Answers
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The sycophancy problem is so real haha. Every time a model starts with "What a great question!" I already know the answer is going to be useless.
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Distinguishing Open-Weight from Open-Source: License and Code Availability
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It'd be hard to tell whether it's open-weight or open-source because they may both use the same license like MIT, Apache V2 etc. (But the definition of open-source is tricky, some only call it open source if training code is available under open source licenses as well)
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Am I Writing My Posts or Is AI Writing Them?
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j'ai un gros doute de savoir si c'est moi qui écris mes posts, ou si c'est toi.
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AI weapons testing raises serious ethical concerns
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les 7% sont en train d'être montés sur des roquettes pour tester l'impact de tirs sur l'humain.