Military AI has existed, arguably, since Rosenblatt's perceptrons , funded by US military in the 1950s. What's 'different' here is not simply the scale and sophistication — it's the indiscriminate slaughter being authorized via AI.
REGULATION
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Ripple Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin in Regulated Market
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New: Ripple is launching its own U.S. dollar stablecoin. This is big. Stablecoins is a $150 billion market dominated by Tether & Circle. @bgarlinghouse isn’t worried. He says Ripple, unlike certain other issuers, is regulated and compliant.
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Encryption Privacy Tradeoff in Tech Narratives
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Fair! I opted for a punchy descriptor, but the net is we traded the ability to deploy/develop encryption for privacy as a substantive value, and didn't acknowledge this is what we were doing in the war stories we told.
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AI Systems Targeting Flaws Raise Critical Ethics Concerns
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Or, to be pedantic, when laughably imprecise “AI” systems probabilistically determined someone was a worthy target of death (think ad targeting but for killing) IDF waited until they went home and killed them and their family and their neighbors and their pets and etc.
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Coinbase Becomes First International Crypto Exchange Approved in Canada
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Exclusive: Coinbase secured a restricted dealer registration in Canada, making it the first international crypto exchange in the country with coveted approval from the Canadian Securities Administrators.
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Google drops contract following apartheid activism campaign
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We got Google to drop one contract. And people were fired and pushed out in the process. @NoTechApartheid bravely continues the effort.
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AI-Powered Adtech Systems Targeting Civilians: Ethics and Accountability
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The def of "it" is v important here bc what we're seeing IRL is e.g. repurposed adtech systems targeting people (their families, neighbors) for death based on probabilities in e.g. Gaza (see the recent +972 reporting). Space traffic control is fine but not driving AI hype or $
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Search Engines and LLMs Unable to Index Complete Content
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actually worse because now search engines and llms are guaranteed to not index everything
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Tech leader refuses ethical exemption despite wealth
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I made my name and my money, so I can't exempt myself.
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AI Targeting Ethics: Civilian Casualties and Autocratic Risks
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What are you worried autocracies will do, exactly, if "the West" doesn't do it first? Use AI to justify killing the families of probabilistically determined "targets" (determinations that are laughably imprecise)? Us AI to justify 100 civilians killed for every "senior target"?