Tired: military-industrial complex.
Wired: national security-effective altruism complex.
POLICY
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National Security and Effective Altruism in AI Policy
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Historical lessons for modern democracy and technological governance
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I think most democracies have learned from the excess of the industrial revolution, the Gilded Age, which caused the emergence of communism, the 1929 Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, WWII, and the establishment of social democracies post WWII.
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Adobe-Figma Deal Collapse: Regulator Impact on Venture Capital
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Adobe's acquisition of Figma succumbed to pressure from regulators who want to protect innovation. Tech experts split over whether that will work—or have the opposite effect https://
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Is Human Governance Just Collective Hallucination?
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Hot take: most of what we call “human governance” is in fact a collective hallucination.
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AI Doomsday Scenarios Unlikely Senate Forum Discussion
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How likely are AI doomsday scenarios? I spoke at the US Senate AI Insight forum organized by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Todd Young (R-IN), and explained why I think they're very unlikely. AI systems aligned with RLHF already
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Balancing AI existential risk with today’s pressing problems
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I’d like to apologise for the use of the word cultist. I realise many amazing people working on AI existential risk do care profoundly about today’s problems. I don’t think it is wise to take the extreme view that existential risk means we can underplay today’s problems (my
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Technology as Power: Social and Political Consequences
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All technology is a form of power. @FortuneMagazine “And from the earliest tools to today’s world of social media and generative AI, it comes with major social and political consequences.”
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Claude API Terms Enable Customer Output Ownership Protection
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Our new terms will enable our customers to retain ownership of outputs when using our services, and protect them from copyright infringement claims. They will be live on January 1, 2024 for Claude API users and shortly after for those using Claude via Amazon Bedrock.
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Google Play Store Antitrust Settlement: State AGs Deal Analysis
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Now that the Google Play Store antitrust settlement news has been out for the morning crowd, what's everyone think about the state AGs' deal and its potential implications?
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Adobe Figma merger blocked: implications for GenAI design market
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This comes less than a month after @CMAgovUK opened a merger inquiry about whether the deal would harm competition in the design software category. I meant to tweet about this yesterday, but I’ll be curious how Adobe & Figma staying separate will shape the GenAI design market.