In my essay w/ @IanBremmer How AI Could Upend Geopolitics, we argue that AI will transform power and who can wield it. Policymakers are already behind the curve. Read or listen at @ForeignAffairs
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Surveillance as loneliness cure: surveillance industry’s central marketing narrative
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Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveillance business model. But it's rarely put as plainly as this! https://
wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al
tman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=fqvjf26wqvek9fx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Exploring Sama as a Potential Universal Basic Income Model
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Very interesting! Need to read into it. Haven’t thought of seeing Sama as an UBI
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China’s Strategic Push Toward Robot Superpower Status
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China’s quest to become a robot superpower
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OpenAI Transparency: Models, Azure Contracts, and Labor Practices
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Partial list:
1. Transparency about what is actually in OAI models/datasets (ht @BlancheMinerva
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2. Azure cloud contract transparency–who's licensing GPT, for what use, how much $
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America’s AI Safety Plan Faces Budget Crunch and Expert Disagreement
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America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch: there is “significant disagreement” among AI experts over how to work on or even measure and define safety issues with the technology https://
wired.com/story/americas
-ai-safety-plan-budget-crunch/
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AI Index 2023 Report Reveals Major Industry and Government Shifts
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Top AI stories of 2023: The sixth annual AI Index revealed shake-ups across industry and government. https://
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Database Benchmark Restrictions: Legal Implications Oracle
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i remember some databases had a no-benchmark license / terms of service. Benchmarking those databases was illegal / grounds to sue. Oracle was one. https://
danluu.com/anon-benchmark
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WiFi4EU Initiative Shapes Europe’s Digital Future Strategy
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WiFi4EU | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
europa.eu/!Yb6jbg
#digital #europe #digitaleu #innovation #technology @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniaz @Hana_ElSayyed @Khulood_Almani @baski_LA @pettet50 @TerenceLeungSF @enilev @BetaMoroney @PawlowskiMario @IsabellePiel29 @AkwyZ -
End-to-End Encryption Cannot Be Safely Scanned
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They do not have the ability to safely and privately scan end to end encrypted data to determine its contents, no.