A nice piece by @AndrewYNg arguing that irrational fears about AI should not cause governments to regulate open source AI models out of existence.
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Open AI Research Under Threat From Restrictive Policies
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You and Yoshua are inadvertently helping those who want to put AI research and development under lock and key and protect their business by banning open research, open-source code, and open-access models. This will inevitably lead to bad outcomes in the medium term.
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Inflection Supports International Code of Conduct for Advanced AI
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AI is progressing fast. We must proactively manage this wave of powerful technologies. Inflection supports the new International Code of Conduct for Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems: inflection.ai/frontier-safet…
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Congress Introduces CREATE AI Act: Necessity for America’s AI Future
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Prior to this week’s signing of a new @WhiteHouse Executive Order on AI, the U.S. Congress introduced a new bipartisan bill called the CREATE AI Act. Why is this bill necessary to America's AI future? HAI's @russellwald weighs in:
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UK AI Safety Summit Addresses Existential Risks and International Coordination
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The UK's big AI safety summit takes place tomorrow. It's a two-day event that's set to be jampacked with lots of chatter on the existential risks surrounding AI – and finding some international coordination on the technology (no mean feat with both the US and China attending).
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Andrew Ng Existential Risk Claims Disputed by Former Google Researcher
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Andrew Ng is claiming that the idea that AI could make us extinct is a big-tech conspiracy. A datapoint that does not fit this conspiracy theory is that I left Google so that I could speak freely about the existential threat.
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Assessing AI Executive Order: Understanding Stakeholder Bias
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When assessing the Executive Order on AI, it’s imperative you consider the bias of the people providing analysis. For this week’s podcast I broke it down into four groups (note, I did this in about 5 minutes before we recorded, so I may evolve and amend them moving forward): >
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Rep Eshoo advocates safe AI development beyond big tech entities
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"We need to develop AI that is safe, trustworthy, and responsible," said @RepAnnaEshoo at this morning’s discussion on public sector AI. We must develop AI beyond a small group of entities to be able to innovate, to benefit everyone, she said. Webinar https://
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Securing Maritime Equipment: Piracy Threats in International Waters
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uh, for starters how would you guard the equipment from pirates? seems like a painted target in international waters.
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Stanford HAI’s NAIRR Pilot Program Integrated into Presidential Executive Order
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We @StanfordHAI are very proud of our work over the past years to bring forth this effort – now NAIRR’s pilot program is part of the EO by @POTUS . Here is a quick recap of how we get here 2/2