The ongoing discourse surrounding AI safety and its potential for existential risks seems to have escalated into an intense polarization, with participants taking entrenched positions – "AI Doomers" versus "AI Denialists." Such adversarial classification is not helpful for a
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AI voice scams rattle US trust in audio authentication
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Can you trust your ears? #AI voice scams rattle US https://
news.yahoo.com/trust-ears-ai-
voice-scams-012041873.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
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Earth’s Systematic Approach: Banning Everything Except the Most Dangerous
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See, it's not that Earth is systematically too cautious. It's that Earth is systematically always wrong. They'll ban everything *except* gain-of-function research in bio and AI. They won't let that stopped clock be right even once a day.
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Scale AI’s Long Government Relations Strategy Versus AI Tourists
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Scale has been engaging with the U.S. government about AI for years, unlike firms who only woke up to the technology recently. He said Wang has coined a term for them: “AI tourists.”
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FDA Approves Neuralink Human Clinical Trials Elon Musk
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Groundbreaking News: FDA Grants Approval to Elon Musk’s Neuralink for Human Trials: In a monumental breakthrough, Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup, Neuralink, has received approval from the FDA to initiate its first-ever human clinical study.… https://
analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2023/05/f
da-approves-human-clinical-study-for-elon-musks-neuralink/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Machine Unlearning: Beyond Simple Data Removal from AI
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I’ve been hearing RE MUnL (surely there’s a better acronym!) increasingly over the past year as generative AI proliferated. It’s not nearly as simple as removing data (eg an artists’ paintings or an author’s books) from a dataset. I bet we’ll see it progress more in the years TK.
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AI APIs threaten scientific replicability and research integrity
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Quiet threats to scientific replicability from social media APIs, new preprint. AI APIs are clearly posing very similar issues. https://
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Global AI Safety: Insights from 25 Cities Across Six Continents
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In May and June, we traveled to 25 cities across 6 continents to better understand how users, developers, and government leaders are thinking about the creation and deployment of safe AI — from today’s AI to superintelligence. Here’s what’s next:
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OpenAI Training on Examples Undermines Scientific Research
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we gave up when we realized openai was likely training on our examples, making it really hard do careful science
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Vatican Releases AI Ethics Handbook for Technology Governance
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The Vatican Has A Plan To Help Keep AI In Control – SlashGear The Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has now released a 140-page handbook that details how ethics should guide disruptive tech like AI. https://
bit.ly/46qtu0r