In the future you’ll have an AI whispering in your ear all day long. What politician wouldn’t love to get a hold of that?
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Non-compete clauses duration debate in fast-moving tech field
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I should add these are my opinions, but I would love to hear other opinions to understand this better, and revise my beliefs accordingly. There might be room for compromise too. 6-month and 1-year non-competes seem awfully long in a field that moves so fast. Would a max of 3
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AI Scientists Demand Non-Compete Bans Through Activism
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AI scientists and engineers need to make their voices heard when it comes to non-competes. I hope this becomes a topic of discussion at @icmlconf and other venues. We urgently need more activism in this area. I believe non-competes should be banned because: 1. They give
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Copyright breach threatens social contract and societal stability
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Sure. If you break the society-wide agreement that is Copyright, then society breaks down.
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OSS Advocate Testifies at U.S. Generative AI Hearings
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Yeah, there was an OSS advocate who said exactly that in the U.S. hearings about generative technology.
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Cultural Relativism in Defining Racism Across Nations
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The benchmark is very different in a country where a verbal argument in a mall or someone in a restaurant not putting back the tray can make it to the headlines. What’s being referred to as ‘casual racism’ won’t even be defined as racism in most other countries.
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Did Collective Bargaining Stop AI Policy Changes?
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technically didn't the collective bargaining last yr stop this?
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AI regulation compared to imprisoning babies for potential crimes
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You don't imprison a baby because he might grow into a criminal, but that's what lawmakers are trying to do with AI.
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AI Regulation: Sincerity vs. Self-Interest and Lobbying Concerns
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There is an element of self interested regulatory capture in some AI regulation work, but I know many activists are deeply sincere about their apocalyptic beliefs. Throwing millions of $ into PR and lobbying is the civilized thing to do, but I have some concern that there will
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LAION Directors Misrepresent IWF Partnership on CSAM Safety
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When CSAM was found in LAION-5b, the directors of LAION claimed in a blog post they had been working with IWF already for such safety issues. When emailed, IWF had no information about the partnership. (LAION subsequently edited the blog post to make it ambiguous.) #EthicsWashing