I guess I should explicitly clarify–because of Earth's habit of picking exactly the worst possible way to do anything–that this is not AT ALL helped by having every website display a banner that says "May contain AI content somewhere."
POLICY
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Ethics of human experimentation when harm is unknown
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If we don't know it's harmful then there is no ethical problem asking people to volunteer. It can be an experiment according to the scientific method. (FWIW, it's why animals are used in the first forms of testing; still sucks but humans rationalize it that way.)
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Scientific Policy Testing: Control Groups and Evidence-Based Implementation
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Causal chains can be created based on assumptions and logic only. Then if you have a proposed policy, it's implementation should at least be scientific… (Try multiple policies, control group.)
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AI-Generated Disinformation and Critical Thinking Crisis
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Fog of war, disinformation campaigns, even AI generated images and add a bunch of useful idiots too lazy to do their own critical thinking and here we are.
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CGTN Accused of Deliberate Information Suppression on AI
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Most people just don’t know. And CGTN is happy to keep it that way for situations just like this.
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Global Ethics versus Local Optimization in Humanity Care
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Caring for humanity is different from caring for humans, in the same way as global maximum is different from local maxima.
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Email Retention Tradeoffs: Certainty vs Data Loss
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The steelman is “We’re going to trade certainty in not having Oops Can’t Find That Email What Could Possibly Have Happened for certainty in Of Course We Won’t Have A Six Year Old Email.”
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Geopolitics Emerging as Critical Business Risk Factor
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Business leaders are waking up to the realities of geopolitics. To paraphrase an enemy of freedom: You may not be interested in geopolitics, but geopolitics is interested in you. Every years at OODAcon we dive deep into geopolitics and global risks and have a dedicated session
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Legal Trust Framework for Autonomous AI Program Execution
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I think “an AI version of oneself” Is quite beyond our state of the art but you could certainly create a trust which told a trustee “Execute the following computer program, updating the version of it you use at your discretion, with the following inputs, then ~do the output.”