If California had passed an Internet safety bill like SB 1047 in 1994, none of the Internet giants would be there and Silicon Valley would be a backwater. Over to you, @CAgovernor
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SB 1047 Internet Safety Bill Could Have Prevented Silicon Valley’s Rise
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SpaceX Owner Challenges Brazilian Government Action Against X Platform
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SpaceX and X are two completely different companies with different shareholders. I own about 40% of SpaceX, so this absolutely illegal action by the dictator @alexandre improperly punishes other shareholders and the people of Brazil.
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California SB 1047 Would Hinder AI Development and Safety
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There’s still time to stop California’s SB 1047 from becoming law. For @TIME
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e100-voices/7016134/california-sb-1047-ai/
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Race for powerful AI: new Cold War?
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Let's see how soon we will end up in a situation where countries compete to develop more and more powerful AI systems Cold War 2?
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US AI Safety Institute Reaches Testing Agreement with Major AI Company
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we are happy to have reached an agreement with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-release testing of our future models. for many reasons, we think it's important that this happens at the national level. US needs to continue to lead!
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Constitution Protection and Censorship: Political Challenges in America
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The American Constitution is only as strong as those willing to protect it. The left have become the party of censorship worldwide.
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Criminal Justice Reform and Social Media Speech Regulation Debate
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Yeah, they’re literally releasing criminals to make room to lock up people making social media comments
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LLMs Generate Covert Racism Based on Dialect Features
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Beyond excited to share that this is now out in @Nature! We show that despite efforts to remove overt racial bias, LLMs generate covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Joint work with amazing co-authors @ria_kalluri, @jurafsky, and Sharese King. Valentin Hofmann (@vjhofmann) 💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵 — https://nitter.net/vjhofmann/status/1764687418626576445#m
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TPDP Workshop: Annual Free DP Community Event and Networking
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For the DP community, we have a fun workshop every year, TPDP. This is a free-to-attend, high-acceptance rate venue where a large number of DP researchers go. Great opportunity to meet folks and learn about the latest work. Favorite event of the year. https://
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White House AI Policy Implications and Current Leadership Impact
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What change, given that she’s literally in the White House right now?