I sometimes wonder if I am too cynical about our class credentialing institutions and their funding and gatekeeping mechanisms. Then, I remember they are our class credentialing institutions, and so the baseline level of cynicism should be high.
REGULATION
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Policy Design Benefits Elite, Harms Others: Known Side Effect
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“Wow this seems like a policy designed to work spectacularly well for the class that wrote it and blow up terribly for other people.” More of the first half of that; the second is a side effect. It’s a known side effect, in the literature, but was not considered a blocker.
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Pandemics and AI risks are fundamentally different phenomena
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Some people are assimilating the risks associated with pandemics with the risks associated with AI progress.
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UAE AI Minister Highlights Obscurantism’s Negative Effects
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AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park: International Cooperation Era
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI safety summit at Bletchley Park: A New Era of International Cooperation in AI Safety? https://
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California Raises Software Employee Pay Minimums Overtime Exemption
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California Raises Software Employee Pay Minimums for Overtime Exemption https://
shrm.org/resourcesandto
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Knowledge Access and Obscurantism in AI Era
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Regulation risks: when advocacy may increase danger
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If advocating for regulation makes the risk greater, we shouldn't do it. That's not naive – it's just a simple and clear factual statement.
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Governments Must Establish VR Safety Councils Urgently
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governments should discuss VR safety councils before this gets out of hand
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Regulation Risk Trade-offs in AI Policy
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No, if advocating for regulation makes the risk greater, we shouldn't do it.