The problem is not just the proliferation of devices that let you record people without their knowledge, but the fact that multimodal LLM let you use recordings in ways that neither law not society anticipated. Everyone has an easy way to mine hours of
footage. No forgetting.
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Multimodal LLMs Enable Unprecedented Privacy Risks Through Recording Mining
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Deploying Powerful AI Models: Chatbots and APIs Safety
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Valid points! And you’re comfortable with businesses releasing these powerful models in chatbots or APIs?
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Climate Simulations Democratized for Policymakers Planning
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From policymakers to planners, they can now interact with climate simulations to better prepare for: Floods Droughts Heatwaves Infrastructure stress It’s climate modeling, democratized.
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API and Chatbot Risks: Accessibility Versus Safety Concerns
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All these risks are unfortunately in my opinion much more prevalent with APIs and chatbots (non-open weights) because they are way easier to use by a larger number of people (ex chatgpt has hundreds of millions of users with very little limitations of what you can do with it and
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American AI Community Must Embrace Open-Source Science
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It’s time for the American AI community to wake up, drop the "open is not safe" bullshit, and return to its roots: open science and open-source AI, powered by an unmatched community of frontier labs, big tech, startups, universities, and non‑profits. If we don’t, we’ll be forced
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AI Control: Putting Artificial Intelligence on a Leash
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The solution? In the words of Karpathy, we need to “put AI on a leash.” 4/6
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E/acc Movement Gains Influence Over Effective Altruism in AI Policy
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Had to pause reading America's AI Action Plan when I saw e/acc having an impact. Would this have happened if the effective altruists had the influence they expected? Not likely. Thanks again to @beffjezos for making it fun to dunk on doomers everywhere. Now back to
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Deepfakes and synthetic media in legal systems
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I saw "Combat Synthetic Media in the Legal System" and briefly thought it might be about lawyers citing hallucinated cases, but it's about deepfakes
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VASP Licensing Bureaucracy Threatens Kenyan Startup Innovation
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The licensing bureaucracy the VASP bill represents *itself* is what will vastly slow down the innovation and new products coming from Kenyan startups.
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Kenya VASP Bill Creates Gatekeepers Slowing Tech Innovation
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Rent seekers are messing up innovation in tech in Kenya. You can hear all about it in the crypto space and how this new VASP bill is set to slow things down and create gate keepers to extract value.