Bleh. Sorry. "get out there and vote".
POLICY
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Global Access to AI-Driven Medicine: Cost and Timeline Questions
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How long until the rest of the world starts paying for new medicine?
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Drones Transform Infantry Warfare Like Muskets Did Knights
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Drones are to infantry as muskets were to knights.
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Deepmind CEO’s Media Narrative Deserves Critical Scrutiny
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Someone needs to write about Deepmind the way Karen Hao is writing about OpenAI. The Deepmind CEO is one of the most conniving and politically savvy people out there who's managed to convince the press (as always with these men) that he's some sort of genius sage.
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Drone Supremacy: The New Strategic Military Paradigm
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Drone supremacy is the new nuclear supremacy.
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US voters urged to plan and cast their ballots
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If you're in the US and eligible to vote make a plan to get it there and vote!
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Stores Tracking: Imagine Opt-Out Privacy Controls Like Cookies
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imagine if stores would give you a piece of paper when you walk in and give you a chance to opt out Strictly Necessary Tracking: On
Instagram Ads For Products You Get Close To: On
Retargeting On Every Fifth Website You Visit: On
Targeting Your Friends: On
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Fascism Risks in Technology Development and Governance
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They know a thing or two about fascism: what it looks like, how it gains power, how it remains in power, and how it never ends well.
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Publishing Research vs Deploying Practical Military AI Systems
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There is a big distance between a set of basic methods (backprop, ConvNet, transformer, LLM…) and a *practical* system that can be deployed to assist soldiers. The former can be published and open sourced. The latter not so much.
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DoD Agencies Fund Academic AI Research Through Contract Categories
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DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, and other DoD agencies fund academic research that is published and openly accessible.
They have categories for different types of contracts 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, ….
6.1 is foundational research often performed by universities or by companies with academic