Max is going astray in his effort to paint the pro open source AI crowd into some sort of lobbying effort by "Big Tech" (as if that was a unified bloc).
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Ben Brooks Advocates Open AI Models at US Senate Forum
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Today, Ben Brooks (
@opensauceAI
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Standing in the Way of AI Research is Unethical
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Standing in the way of AI research is unethical. My keynote to all industrial leaders of Denmark at the AI Denmark summit. https://
industriensfond.dk/nyhed/det-vill
e-vel-naermest-vaere-uetisk-at-staa-i-vejen-for-udviklingen-af-kunstig-intelligens/
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Self-Destructing Foundation Models: Security Against Adversarial Customization
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What is a self-destructing foundation model? One that adversaries can’t customize for harmful purposes:
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Meta and IBM: Big Tech Stances on Closed AI
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Meta is a Big Tech and definitely not aligned with closed AI.
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Accelerating AI Safely: Beyond the False Dichotomy
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The accelerationist vs. safety dichotomy is starting to get absurd. Safety people aren’t doomers and e-accs aren’t libertarian loons. Realists are both. We must accelerate safely.
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AI Doomers as Useful Idiots for Proprietary AI Industry
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The AI doomers are the "useful idiots" of the proprietary AI industry.
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Billionaire Influence and AI Doomerism: Financial Corruption Concerns
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You were talking about corruption?
Kersti Kaljulaid, the FLI, and yourself are under the (financial) influence of Estonian billionaire Jaan Talinn. I don't doubt that Jaan has good intentions (perhaps with a slightly excessive savior syndrome). But his and your AI doomerism is -
Information Control and Intellectual Worker Protection in AI Era
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Both the control of information (and religious dogma) and the protection of scribes.
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UAE Minister Warns Against Premature AI Technology Regulation
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The UAE Minister of AI @OmarSAlolama points to a historical precedent of premature technology regulation motivated by fear: the ban of the printing press in 1515 by Sultan Selim I led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. “We overregulated a technology, which was the printing