I'm thrilled to be part of the advisory board for this phenomenal project among people I've long admired! Mona's vision for this series is so needed: we're co-opting the hype around so-called AI to confront the critical social issues surrounding this technology. https://
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Karen Hao Joins Advisory Board for AI Social Issues Series
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Open Weights Supporters Called to Sign Transparency Initiative
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Ahistoricism in AI Coverage: Focus on Actual Harms
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Second, this blog post regarding ahistoricism in some of the coverage and the importance of keeping the focus on actual harms and the activists and scholars who are working on addressing them: https://
medium.com/@emilymenonben
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AI Safety Concerns and Response to AI Pause Letter
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In light of all the extra AI doomerism in the news (likely due in part to the "AI Safety Summit" in the UK this week), I'd like to re-up a couple of resources. First, this response to the "AI Pause" letter: https://
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Mozilla Foundation Letter Advocates for Open AI Platforms
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Openness, transparency, and broad access makes software platforms safer and more secure.
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Open Source Platforms Enhance AI Safety and Security
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Top Cybersecurity Trends 2024 Amid AI Rise
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Facing a predicted $10.5 trillion in #cyber #attack damages and a landscape swiftly morphing due to #AI's rise, discover the top #cybersecurity #trends of 2024 that will shape how individuals, businesses, and governments defend their #digital realms. https://
linkedin.com/pulse/10-bigge
st-cyber-security-trends-2024-everyone-must-ready-marr-xwf0e
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Open-Source Path Essential for AI Safety and Risk Mitigation
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The safest way to make useful AI while mitigating misuse is to work on improving it in the open, with the highest level of scrutiny — as always in software. That’s why open-source is the one and only path toward AI safety.
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AI Development Concentration Risk Among Large Corporations
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Can this change? Yes, although not without a paradigm change in the technology, and that’s why it’s great that we talk about risks. But right now the true risk is to mechanically leave the development of AI to 2 or 3 large corporations.
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AI limitations in misinformation and illegal applications
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The good news is, for all of the illegal usage of AI we can imagine (misinformation and knowledge search), AI currently does nothing to lift the actual bottleneck standing in the way (distribution of information, actual execution of what the LLM recommends doing, respectively)