Idea for future job stimulus programs. https://t.co/uIbVgPKIqm pic.twitter.com/XQoQmsJIWe
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 avril 2024
Idea for future job stimulus programs.
POLICY
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Future Job Stimulus Programs: Economic Policy Ideas
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Community Notes Slow Misinformation Spread But Lag Behind Viral Content
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Community Notes really does work to slow down the spread of misinformation for tweets that get Notes. The effect is quite large. But the Notes are often posted too slowly, appearing only after false information has gone viral, lowering their real world impact.
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Mapping AI Tools and Accountability Supply Chains
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I agree with this critique. But I don't agree that mapping precisely the tools and pretexts used, their supply chains/links of culpability, is a distraction, or itself causes the projection of culpability onto the 'machine' (echoing exactly the logics of these systems/narratives
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Platform Structure Beyond Network Externalities Critique
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LOL I was like, aw, that's nice! And then I was like… Anyway, I appreciate the kind words! And I push back on the characterization of hopelessness. I don't argue against network externalities, or e-commerce, I simply say that the platforms as they're structured now are
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Big Tech AI Tools: Amazon, Palantir, Microsoft Cloud Ambiguity
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To be pedantic, the Intercept article doesn't clarify whether these particular "AI" tools are the same described in the +972 reporting. Or if these are in fact Amazon, or Palantir (which runs at least in part on Amazon/Google Cloud), or Microsoft. All of these cos have large,
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Military AI Evolution: From Perceptrons to Autonomous Weapons
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Military AI has existed, arguably, since Rosenblatt's perceptrons , funded by US military in the 1950s. What's 'different' here is not simply the scale and sophistication — it's the indiscriminate slaughter being authorized via AI.
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Encryption Privacy Tradeoff in Tech Narratives
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Fair! I opted for a punchy descriptor, but the net is we traded the ability to deploy/develop encryption for privacy as a substantive value, and didn't acknowledge this is what we were doing in the war stories we told.
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AI Systems Targeting Flaws Raise Critical Ethics Concerns
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Or, to be pedantic, when laughably imprecise “AI” systems probabilistically determined someone was a worthy target of death (think ad targeting but for killing) IDF waited until they went home and killed them and their family and their neighbors and their pets and etc.
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Coinbase Becomes First International Crypto Exchange Approved in Canada
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Exclusive: Coinbase secured a restricted dealer registration in Canada, making it the first international crypto exchange in the country with coveted approval from the Canadian Securities Administrators.