I made that point during the Munk Debate in response to Max Tegmark (who is a physics professor at MIT): "Why aren't you worried that some students in your nuclear physics class could be baby Hitlers?"
REGULATION
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Open AI Research and Debunking AI Doomsday Prophecies
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An interview of me in the Financial Times in which I explain the reasons for supporting open research in AI and open source AI platforms.
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Machine Translation Origins: Cold War Military Funding and Development
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2. Machine Translation & Power by @amandalynneP "The first machine translation efforts in the United States were spurred by the Cold War. Early…systems were…developed with funding from and for use by the military and other federal agencies,"
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AI Industry’s Focus on Military and War Applications
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I really don't have it in me to pontificate about AI right now, except for how the industry is all about war and military. Here are a few books and articles on the topic. 1. The Birth of Computer vision by @jeddobson
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Regulation Strategy: Product Safety vs Research Freedom
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China AI chip sanctions may fork AI technique development
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Currently, we overfit to exploring AI techniques that work well on NVIDIA GPUs.
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AI Safety Summit in London: Networking Opportunity
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Who will be in London for the AI Safety Summit? DM if you'd like to meet and chat.
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Democracy Essential for Beneficial Technological Progress
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That's why we have democracy.
If you don't believe that democracy is effective, you may have doubts that technological progress will be for the greater good.
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Advanced surveillance weapons tested on oppressed populations first
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The most advanced automated surveillance & other weapons are first tested on oppressed people. Entire books have been written about, specifically, Palestinians. Like the book below And we have privileged people pontificating about "existential risks."
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Influential figures push governments ban open source AI
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Because a bunch of influential people think AI is too dangerous to make available to everyone and are actively lobbying governments to make open source AI illegal.