Economist @Susan_Athey helped to plan the launch of @StanfordHAI & became one of its founding associate directors. Her work covers the intersection of machine learning and econometrics. In 2022, she joined the U.S. Dept. of Justice as chief economist. 3/n https://
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Susan Athey: Economist Bridges Machine Learning and Government Policy
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AI Misinformation Echo Chambers Fuel Societal Polarization
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I already see people dismissing information they don’t like as “AI generated.” AI content will not create echo chambers where people reject things that they don’t believe. But it will clearly supercharge that already dangerous trend; giving even more excuses for not listening.
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San Francisco reverses facial recognition restrictions amid rising crime fears
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San Francisco lead U.S. in restricting facial recognition in the US five years ago. With fears about crime rising, voters have now asked for more surveillance, drones, and robots. (by @LaurenGoode and @tsimonite
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EU EIC Summit: AI Innovation and High-Performance Computing Access
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Join us at the @EUeic Summit event on March 18-19! Our CEO, @FabAroundEU
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Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: Media Bias and Expertise Blind Spots
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The "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect”. It describes the phenomenon where individuals often believe that news articles are inaccurate or biased in areas they're knowledgeable about but then accept information from the same sources in areas where they lack expertise.
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Free speech advocacy and AI governance in China
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Why don’t you take this same passion and energy for free speech for American citizens and redirect it to advocate the same for your own fellow citizens in China.
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ASI Rule of Law Argument Based on Analogy, Not First Principle
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And furthermore, the claim that ASIs would need to imitate human-style "rule of law" to the point of it respecting human life and property rights, is itself an argument from sheer analogy. I replied to an analogy with another analogy; I did not throw the first punch.
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Superintelligence risks and historical moral panics reference class
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Conversely, suppose you analogize concern about artificial superintelligences killing everyone to past moral panics about coffee and trains. Then (test 1) there's other possible choices of reference class besides "the class of warnings that turned out wrong", eg, you could also
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Iatrogenic False Solutions in Current AI Proposals
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(Bonus, for the vocab builders among us, the word 'iatrogenic' is helpful in metaphorically describing the false solution space current proposals present.)
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AI Now Institute Report on Compute and AI Policy
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And this stellar report from @AINowInstitute — @sarahbmyers and Jai Vipra 9/ https://
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