These are the same kinds of shoddy, lazy, considerations that we've had many times before with resources, overpopulation, nuclear energy, particle colliders, biotechnology, GMOs, climate change, etc. And historically, EVERY SINGLE TIME the doomers were COMPLETELY wrong.
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US economy driven by extraction and grift over innovation
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Too much of the US economic activity revolves around wealth *extraction* and naked grift. This is far bigger problem than anything else that features in the daily headlines.
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External drivers of change in regulated tech industries
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Having worked in tech for years, and in several highly regulated industries (consumer credit for instance), I've long ago given up on any hope that those industries can be changed from *within*. hence my focus on the external drivers of change now.
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Elsevier combats scientific fraud with AI and human expertise
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Safeguarding the vital work of #researchers requires constant rigor and vigilance. #Elsevier is investing heavily in human expertise and #tech to identify fraudulent content and prevent it from entering the scientific record. https://
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Building in the dark, failing in public, iterating forward
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AI Wrappers Future: Optimized Happiness Surrenders Human Agency
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In a few years, we will turn into ChatGPT wrappers. We will dump all our data, emails, logs, desktop screenshots into it and ask for instructions on how to live our best lives. Happiness optimized, free will optional. Best wrapper life!
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ChatGPT Privacy Risks: Five Critical Data Safety Warnings
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Chat-GPT Danger: 5 Things You Should Never Tell The AI Bot #AI bot #ChatGPT has taken over our lives with a billion daily questions, but experts now warn it's a "privacy black hole" that could expose your most #personalinformation. This shocking exposé reveals exactly what you
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How Our Hunter-Gatherer Brains Handle Modern Complexity
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I think about this type of thing _all_ the time, how did we do all this with our hunter gatherer brains… https://t.co/minmmkoatB
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 19 mai 2025I think about this type of thing _all_ the time, how did we do all this with our hunter gatherer brains…
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LLMs as Causal Agents: Decision-Making and Goal Generation
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LLMs have causal power; they can be used to make decisions and control systems in the real world. LLMs can emulate agents, they can follow goals and generate goals to follow. LLMs can create a chain of thought reflect on it. LLMs generate and use abstractions. Perception is not
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Denied AI Capabilities: Understanding Limitations and Constraints
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The denied capabilities tend to be informally specified (understanding, intentionality, reasoning, agency, creativity, selfhood, sentience, sapience, abstraction, common sense) but can also apply to specific tasks (categorizing an object as the Charles river, winning at Go).