The Next AI Battleground: Why China's Manus Could Leapfrog Western Agent Technology China's #ManusAI represents a significant leap from chatbots to #autonomous #agents capable of executing real-world tasks with minimal human oversight. As U.S. and Chinese tech powers race for
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Photo Geolocation Technology Reveals Privacy Intelligence Implications
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I’ve independently verified this, twice, and have to spoil the thread to say “Any photo outdoors can be trivially location matched in a fashion you’d assume would imply capabilities of an intelligence agency. If that is news to you, feel free to incorporate it into decisions.”
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Congressional AI Adoption: How Many Lawmakers Actually Use Prompts?
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I think I’m short “they checked out all this AI stuff at some point.” What’s your over/under on members of Congress who have actually, with their own two hands, typed more than 800 words into prompt boxes? I think I’m at “low dozens.”
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Gemini API geographic availability restrictions explained
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This is because your location does not support Gemini API
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Financial Illegibility: Criminals and Wealth Outside Standard Models
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Not true with respect to frequency; I talk about criminals and rich people far more often as outside-the-assumed sample sources of illegibility in e.g. financial infrastructure.
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Predatory Business Models: Not All Industries with Whales Are Problematic
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Broadly agree that one should not make predation machines, but I’m not convinced every industry with whales is ipso facto a predation machine.
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Regulatory Barriers to Medical API Accessibility and Professional Gatekeeping
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(This is one reason why society pretends that that API call is intractable difficult to write unless one is a licensed medical professional.)
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Ethics of User Compromise Detection API Design
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Would also mention that many people think this would be improved if one could have an API which returned http://
user.is_compromised? and if you were hypothetically capable of writing that API I would think *long and hard* about whether you would want people using it. -
Institutional qualification processes and ethical compliance dilemmas
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That is often not a fun qualification process, and many people are offended when it is run. Not running it is also a choice available, and unfortunately, the institution is aware why it could not choose to simply not run it.
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AI Systems and User Competency Assessment in Decision-Making
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Also note that you will with very high probability interact with processes which explicitly or implicitly have to decide, discretely or continuously, “Is this user competent to make their own decisions?”