I made that point during the Munk Debate in response to Max Tegmark (who is a physics professor at MIT): "Why aren't you worried that some students in your nuclear physics class could be baby Hitlers?"
REGULATION
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Open AI Research and Debunking AI Doomsday Prophecies
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An interview of me in the Financial Times in which I explain the reasons for supporting open research in AI and open source AI platforms.
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Machine Translation Origins: Cold War Military Funding and Development
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2. Machine Translation & Power by @amandalynneP "The first machine translation efforts in the United States were spurred by the Cold War. Early…systems were…developed with funding from and for use by the military and other federal agencies,"
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AI Industry’s Focus on Military and War Applications
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I really don't have it in me to pontificate about AI right now, except for how the industry is all about war and military. Here are a few books and articles on the topic. 1. The Birth of Computer vision by @jeddobson
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Regulation Strategy: Product Safety vs Research Freedom
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Incidentally:
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– regulating the deployment of *product* is useful to guarantee safety. – but I'm very much against regulating research and development.
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Healthcare Policy Implementation and Payer System Design
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"Do you express a strong preference on healthcare policy?" After we pass laws, we should administer them competently. Could go in many directions regarding how many payers, how much social subsidy to try to smuggle in while calling it insurance, etc.
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US Bureaucracy Costs Time Insurance Benefits Impact
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"You seem quite vexed here." 1% because the U.S. just burned two hours of my time and low-degree use of two weeks of attention accomplishing precisely nothing. 99% because I'm not the only person who was asked to do this flow and some of the others lost insurance b/c of it.
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Identity Verification Systems and Legal Compliance in Digital Platforms
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"You seem sophisticated in how systems like this work. Why was this done?" Because forcing me into the Report a Life Change flow requires me to e-sign an under-penalty-of-perjury statement at the end which at least one stakeholder believed was Totes More Real than the ID upload.
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Government Bureaucracy and Data Management Inefficiency Critique
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Good thing I'm a savvy and literate professional capable of following several pages of directions including a 7 step resolution path leading into a 40+ page web application TO PROVIDE THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION IT ALREADY RECEIVED AND KNOWS TO BE TRUE BECAUSE IT IS A DB LOOKUP.
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Healthcare.gov State Machine Error: Citizenship Status Misclassification
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An example of "I certainly understand why you have architected system to work this way, but NO PERSON WANTS IT TO WORK THIS WAY" from the healthcare dot gov state machine, which wrongly came to believe Ruriko was a citizen then got confused. I sent in green card. Note bold bit.