Le journal @LaTribune résume ma pensée sur l’IA : « Nous sommes montés dans un véhicule qui va de plus en plus vite et dont on ne sait pas où il va, s'exclame Rafik Smati […]. Mais il se veut optimiste.» Optimiste ? À vrai dire, nous n’avons pas le choix. Soit nous embrassons
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UK CMA Investigates Adobe’s Figma Acquisition Competition Concerns
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UK competition watchdog @CMAgovUK is looking into Adobe’s acquisition of Figma, saying it could harm designers & creative agencies “who might have used these new tools or relied on future updates.” CMA says ~80% of UK’s product design market use Figma. https://
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AI’s Role in 2024 U.S. Elections: Synthetic Media Concerns
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Less than one year until 2024 U.S. elections, how is AI shaping political campaign ads? @stanfordhai deputy director @russellwald discusses the real concerns around synthetic media. https://
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Financial institutions address verification practices scrutiny
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(Just commenting on “The actual reason we do this is because we want to pretend that financial institutions are uniformly Extremely Serious about checking that someone actually lives at the address they typed into account settings in their mobile app.”)
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States to Review Photo Identification Records and Technology Policy
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“Oh wow we have a photo still on file for you. Let me show you, you’ll get a kick out of it.” — learner’s permit from age 16 and then driver’s license shortly thereafter States are gonna see, I guess.
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Pragmatic Tech Policy Solutions Praised for Cutting Through Hype
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Thanks very much to @NeelGuha and others for producing this. Much needed expertise at the interface of tech and policy cutting through some of the fantastical solutions we've heard and giving pragmatic alternatives.
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Computer Science Lacks Professional Maturity Like Medicine or Law
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Computer science is not a mature profession like medicine, law, engineering or accounting. The latter have accreditation, certifications, licensing, codes of ethics, professional societies, etc. The field underlying AI is different from the field underlying pharma
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Google Antitrust: News Corp’s Strategic Silence on Competition
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Reminds me of when News Corp was "stunned by the detailed evidence of anti-competitive behavior and the damning allegations of serious collusion" after state AGs filed the Google antitrust suit in 2020. (They've had deals since then, but just a thought.)
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Fast AI Medical Breakthroughs vs Safety Concerns Ethics
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I’m not arguing against those, at this point. But, what do you say to someone who has cancer or schizophrenia (etc.) and will die in a few months, if no new good cure is found? Last hope is fast new discoveries here. Why would you delay that, for arguments based on lies to
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Utilitarian AI Ethics: Addressing Historical Harms and Future Risks
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Your notes justly point out the amazing things done by the first, without grappling with the major problems of the 2nd, or with the historical horrors of unfettered utilitarianism in general.