La classe politique est IRRESPONSABLE en matière d’IA 1 Elle cache le tsunami à l’opinion 2 Elle maintient une administration remplis de technophobes ne connaissant rien à l’IA 3 Les élites et leurs enfants seront les grands gagnants 4 Les classes populaires et moyennes
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Trump Admin Disbands Disinformation Tracking Units Amid Platform Opacity
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Another important point from @WillOremus
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Russian Disinformation Campaign Uses GPT-3 Generative AI
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The story also cites newly published research from Clemson University, which found a different Russian-backed disinformation operation used generative AI (GPT-3) to boost the volume, diversity and effectiveness of propaganda. Here's a chart & the paper: https://
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Russia-Backed AI Disinformation Campaign Impersonates Journalists and Officials
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A new report from @ISDglobal details a Russia-aligned operation that used AI-generated voices and images to impersonate journalists, professors and police. The operation used bot networks to sow confusion and distrust with disinformation across X, Telegram and Bluesky.
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Geopolitics Constrains Remote Engineering Hiring for Financial Crime Prevention
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I was once optimistic that we’d solve a lot of financial crime by simply opening up remote engineering hiring in a few concentrated geographies but due to geopolitics/etc that now seems increasingly unlikely on medium timeframes.
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Control, Trust, and Governance in Complex Systems
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“Patrick I disbelieve anyone ever gets constructive control of more than some low floor without a second sign off.” You can believe what you want to believe, but the world is complicated and runs on trust at some margins.
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Politics as shortcut: tribal affiliation over incremental progress
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Which is I think why politics is an attractive option for some people; why toil for years on ameliorating X when you can fund the colored blob of your choice and feel like you got the package you signed up for, which you’re mostly onboard with when it achieves a win.
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AI Hallucinations and Professional Accountability in Legal Practice
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Surely, such behavior is grounds for being disbarred? Unless that becomes the default response, the hallucinations will continue.
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Tech Companies’ Legal Accountability and Whistleblower Culture
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The absence of people who seek immolation is the primary reason why Approximately Every Tech Company That Matters hasn’t had a flagrantly illegal project plan published in the Wall Street Journal.
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Government Transparency and Whistleblower Protection in Public Records
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Broadly agree but for those discoverable documents to also be public either there needs to be a public records law and a well-resourced team operating it or there needs to be an internal whistleblower who wants to immolate their career and social status.