(I’m finding ChatGPT absurdly useful for things like “Expand out CFIUS if the next word is lawyers, please.” Saving the world an API call: Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.)
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Compliance departments may reinterpret AI model regulations creatively
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I, erm, think it is very probable that many compliance departments are going to wake up in the morning and start sharpening their pencils on “We know this wasn’t what you meant, however, you may be surprised to learn that we do call FICO a ‘model’ and we have crunched on it, so.”
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US Government Workers’ Understanding of Floating Point Operations
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I’m idly curious how many people working for the USFG a) know what 10^26 is
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Big Tech Open Sources AI Models While Debating Existential Risk
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Well, at least *one* Big Tech company is open sourcing AI models and not lying about AI existential risk
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Biden Signs Executive Order on Safe AI Development
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The @WhiteHouse has published the entire text of @JoeBiden
's newly signed AI executive order. https://
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/
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AI Executive Order: Balancing Industry Interests and Civil Liberties
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Today's AI executive order has impressive scope. It also reads like the smashing-together of papers written by contrasting groups, one that adopts wholesale the talking points of AI firms, another that centers civil liberties. @matteo_wong & my analysis.
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AI Safety Progress: Multi-Stakeholder Commitments for Safer Rollout
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Progress on AI safety is happening. Governments, companies, academics and civil society are coming together to create clear commitments and secure a better, safer roll out of AI.
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Balanced Analysis of Executive Order on AI Needed
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FWIW I do think there are over-reactions to the EO, and I'd be interested to hear a thoughtful analysis of it. I also think it's not entirely without problems either.
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Google CEO Testifies Before Congress on AI Regulation
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Wish I’d been in Washington today for Google’s CEO’s testimony.
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Red-teaming large models: fascism claims examined
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Have you seen thoughtful people that you wish to engage with claiming that asking for redteaming of >$100M models is fascism? If not, engage with what those people actually say.