Had to pause reading America's AI Action Plan when I saw e/acc having an impact. Would this have happened if the effective altruists had the influence they expected? Not likely. Thanks again to @beffjezos for making it fun to dunk on doomers everywhere. Now back to
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Deepfakes and synthetic media in legal systems
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I saw "Combat Synthetic Media in the Legal System" and briefly thought it might be about lawyers citing hallucinated cases, but it's about deepfakes
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VASP Licensing Bureaucracy Threatens Kenyan Startup Innovation
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The licensing bureaucracy the VASP bill represents *itself* is what will vastly slow down the innovation and new products coming from Kenyan startups.
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Kenya VASP Bill Creates Gatekeepers Slowing Tech Innovation
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Rent seekers are messing up innovation in tech in Kenya. You can hear all about it in the crypto space and how this new VASP bill is set to slow things down and create gate keepers to extract value.
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Why AI Labs Delay Model Releases: Safety and Strategy
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You can interpret any AI lab’s delay in model or system release to be due to safety evals, risk concerns, production gaps, rollout friction, leadership hesitancy, or strategic value hoarding. Could be one of these, could be many. Worth keeping an open mind about causes.
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Crime-as-a-Service: How Hacking Became Subscription Business
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How Crime-As-A-Service Turned Hacking Into A Subscription Business Cybercrime has evolved into a service industry — and it's booming. Discover how this dark business model works and what it means for cybersecurity. Read more https://
bernardmarr.com/how-crime-as-a
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ICML 2025 Publication Ethics Guidelines and Standards
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From ICML’s Publication Ethics page: https://
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EU AI Act Implementation: Key Compliance Deadlines 2025-2027
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The EU AI Act is now in force (Aug 1, 2024) Key deadlines: Feb 2025: Unacceptable-risk AI banned Jul 2025: GPAI Code of Practice Aug 2026: CE-mark + QMS for High-Risk AI Aug 2027: Final compliance deadline for legacy/embedded AI Are you ready? Via
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Youth Action Plan: Demography, Politics, and AI Prompting Skills
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Que doit faire la jeunesse face à l’IA ? 1 Faites des bébés ! Si nous nous suicidons démographiquement, il ne restera que l’IA ! 2 Engagez vous en politique pour liquider les politiciens ignares en IA qui bousillent votre futur 3 Devenez des pros du prompting. Et laisser les
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AGI Creation Marks Historic Turning Point for Humanity
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Strongly agree. Especially right now. We're living in the only moment in human history when AGI was created. Everything is up for grabs.