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Stanford Fellowship: Technology Ethics and Public Policy Summer Program

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25 October 2023 19h39

Calling Stanford graduate students! Looking for a summer fellowship program? Here’s an opportunity to delve into the intersection of technology, ethics, public policy, and social impact, including a paid summer placement in Washington, D.C. Apply by Dec 1: https://
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Partnership on AI publishes foundation models safety guidelines

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25 October 2023 19h29

On This Day 6 years ago: the first general meeting of the Partnership on AI took place in Berlin. PAI funds studies and publishes guidelines on questions of AI ethics and safety.
It just published a set of guidelines for the safe deployment of foundation models:

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$10M AI Safety Fund and Frontier Model Forum Leadership

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25 October 2023 18h59

Announcing a $10M AI Safety fund, and the selection of the Executive Director for the Frontier Model Forum:

FTX Fraud: Industrialized Crime Network, Not Simple Mastermind

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25 October 2023 18h13

For institutional reasons the FTX fracas has been described as variously a mastermind or a small “inner circle.” The truth is a bit worse than that: it was an effectively industrialized operation, which purchased competence from the market, then deployed it to illicit ends.

AI Accessibility Ethics and Coordination Risks in Large Systems

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25 October 2023 17h34

(Because the shape of this is understandable by non-specialist, because they would be morally offended because could see themselves actually using the thing, because the larger graphs are administered by people who are much more capable of coordinating codes of silence, etc.)

Small Bureaucratic Incentives Create Disproportionate Conflict

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25 October 2023 17h32

Every tiny graft is administered by someone who cares about the tiny graft *a great deal*, because the continued quiet administration of the graft guarantees their salary and pension. Ironically this makes the tiny grafts more likely to be sites of contention than larger grafts.

Abundance, Not Allocation: True Solution to Scarcity

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25 October 2023 17h06

3) There is no cure for scarcity but abundance. Everything else merely allocates scarcity. Any thought about the fairness of the allocation strategy which is not “Or we could simply choose to make more of the thing” will not achieve fairness.

Grant Selection Criteria and Racial Demographics in American Institutions

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25 October 2023 17h02

I’m left pondering some conflicting thoughts, which I will muse about out loud: 1) Ordering one’s beneficiaries by ability to present as American PMC while explicitly asking them about their racial background so that you can qualify for grants: as American as apple pie, in 2023.