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POLICY
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Government AI Risk Report Criticized as Unsubstantiated Policy Prescription
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What? Govs hire consultants daily to write whatever. Often, they produce trash. Here, a v small consultancy wrote a report for USG amplifying discredited X-risk ideologies + prescribing bad policy. AFAICT it's based based on ~5 ppl's hunches? Why're we taking this seriously? https://
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Tim Berners-Lee warns web downsides: social media anger, disempowerment
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Sir Tim said he couldn’t have imagined the web becoming the ubiquitous tech it is today. But he also cautioned about the downsides, like social media causing people to feel angry and hateful, and a “disempowerment” of ppl and businesses. (Tip @Techmeme
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Web inventor predicts AI future and Big Tech breakup
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The World Wide Web turns 35 today. I spoke with its inventor, @timberners_lee
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AI Deceleration as Preventable Deaths Ethical Debate
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“We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.” – Marc Andreessen
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Elon Musk to Release Grok After Suing OpenAI for Lack of Openness
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From earlier today… After suing OpenAI for being too closed, Elon Musk has said he will release Grok. It's could help attract developers to his project but will likely also see him wade into the debate concerning the risks of open models.
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Open Source Emerges as Common Enemy in Rights vs Weights Battle
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In the battle between rights owners and weights owners, open source is the common enemy
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Institutional Trust Decline Not Purely Technological Phenomenon
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it’s hard to talk about this without striking a doomer tone but part of why i wanted to write this was to suggest that this isn’t some new phenomenon…it really seems less purely technological and a lot more to do with waning trust in institutions
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Post-Truth Era: Deepfakes and Image Manipulation Beyond AI
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This post-truth era doesn’t feel like chaotic science fiction—it's mundane. A pervasive, low-grade disorientation, suspicion, and distrust. The royal-photo fiasco shows the deepfake age doesn’t need to be powered by generative AI—a hasty Photoshop will do.
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Realistic AI Policy Approaches Beyond Pause or Acceleration
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I think the chance of an actual pause or an even bringing AI development to a crashing halt (model collapse, lawsuits) is basically zero I would love to see more discussion about realistic approaches to policy-making from both people afraid of AI and develop-at-all-cost boosters