When people talk about issues with social networks, they don't realize that AI is not the cause, AI is actually an essential piece of the solution. To take down propaganda, hate speech, attacks on democracy, child exploitation, calls to violence, dangerous misinformation, etc in
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Advisory Board Composition Raises Corporate Interest Concerns
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That's great news — reading through the list of advisors, I'm pleasantly surprised to discover it's not entirely stacked with corporate special interests. (Although there are still quite a large bunch of them…)
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UN Appoints AI Governance Advisory Body Members
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Congrats to HAI Int’l Policy Fellow @MarietjeSchaake and advisory council members @vilasdhar & James Manyika for being named to the @UN Advisory Body on AI! Together with gov’t, private sector & civil society, they will help guide global governance of AI. https://
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MLCommons develops standard AI safety benchmarks for researchers
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Today on the blog, learn how we’re supporting a new effort by the non-profit MLCommons Association that aims to bring together expert researchers across academia and industry to develop standard AI safety benchmarks that everyone can use and understand. ↓
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Supreme Court faces AI liability questions, scholars urge action
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The Supreme Court will soon face questions of liability for harmful outputs from generative AI. Stanford legal scholars urge policymakers to get ahead of the storm.
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New AI Preparedness Team Evaluates AGI Risks Quantitatively
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We are building a new Preparedness team to evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks of highly-capable AI—from today's models to AGI. Goal: a quantitative, evidence-based methodology, beyond what is accepted as possible:
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Commercial pressures shape algorithm design choices
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“Sort by engagement” is a choice to make your life worse and I wish we did not feel such strong commercial pressures to default users to it.
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AI Event at the White House: Executive Order and Censorship
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An event titled "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence" will be hosted by the White House on October 30. There will reportedly be a ‘sweeping’ AI executive order that day. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence is synonymous with censorship. Proceed with caution.
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MLCommons launches AI Safety working group with HELM framework
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An exciting step toward responsible AI: @MLCommons just announced the creation of the AI Safety working group which will focus on developing safety benchmarks for LLMs using the groundbreaking HELM framework from @StanfordCRFM
. Congrats @percyliang & team! https://
mlcommons.org/en/news/format
ion-ai-safety-working-group/
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AI Adoption Gap Between Large European Businesses and SMEs
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Artificial Intelligence is spreading rapidly among European companies. As with cloud computing, its use was more common in large businesses (28%) than in SMEs (7%). Read more > https://
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