We collaborated with content moderators like @Fasica2025 to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators. Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years,
ETHICS
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Content Moderation Ethics: Mental Health Crisis Amid Genocide
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and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded & moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One moderator saw his cousin being murdered in a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
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Google’s Content Moderation Gap in Under-resourced Languages
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I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Although we were at Google, concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to be acknowledged.
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VP’s Anonymous Letter and AI Hate Speech Moderation Claims
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The VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper & setting the stage for my firing commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena. But contrary to his claims & Yann LeCun’s lies saying “95% of hate speech on Facebook is removed by ‘AI’,”
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DAIR Research on Tigray Genocide and AI Ethics Concerns
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Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google.
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Advanced AI Preparedness Framework Update for Severe Harm Risks
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We updated our Preparedness Framework for tracking & preparing for advanced AI capabilities that could lead to severe harm. The update clarifies how we track new risks & what it means to build safeguards that sufficiently minimize those risks.
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Senior Managers Lack Operations Research Understanding
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Also, spoiler alert for a future Complex Systems recording: things you have to bold because senior managers at the department under discussion do not understand operations research as well as e.g. a 16 year old who could beat Factorio.
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Distrust in AI agents following rules and guidelines
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yeh i just dont trust the agent to make sure it sticks to the rules. im sure cursor ignores half the time too haha
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Recommended Conversation About AI with OpenAI’s Sam Altman
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Recommended conversation about AI with @sama https://blog.ted.com/whats-next-for-ai-a-conversation-with-openais-sam-altman-live-at-ted2025/ …
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Sam Altman’s response to intellectual property concerns at TED
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Sam Altman en roue libre 🤣
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 15 avril 2025
Traduction :
Chris Anderson (TEDchris) : « À première vue, ça ressemble à du vol de propriété intellectuelle. »
[applaudissements du public]
Sam Altman : « Vous pouvez applaudir autant que vous voulez. Profitez-en. » https://t.co/ofp6JrGb79Sam Altman en roue libre Traduction :
Chris Anderson (TEDchris) : « À première vue, ça ressemble à du vol de propriété intellectuelle. » [applaudissements du public] Sam Altman : « Vous pouvez applaudir autant que vous voulez. Profitez-en. »