This is the whole artificial general intelligence situation but hey I'm just overreacting right?
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Congress addresses exploitative labor practices in AI industry
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Wow I never thought I’d see the day. Thrilled to see Congress taking up the issue of exploitative labor practices in the AI industry, and incredible to see the work of so many people I admire cited along with my own. https://
jayapal.house.gov/2023/09/13/rep
-jayapal-sen-markey-lead-colleagues-in-demanding-answers-from-ai-companies-on-use-of-underpaid-overworked-data-workers/
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TESCREAL bundle influences catastrophic risk and politics discourse
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Yep the #TESCREAL bundle is running the show. H/t @xriskology "Leigh will borrow the estimate of Oxford philosopher Toby Ord in a speech on Friday exploring the intersection between catastrophic risk and extreme politics” https://
theguardian.com/australia-news
/2023/sep/22/one-in-six-chance-of-a-species-ending-event-in-next-century-labor-mp-andrew-leigh-warns
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FTC Roundtable Explores Generative AI Impact on Creative Fields
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I wonder if this issue will come up at the @FTC
’s Oct. 4 virtual roundtable about generative AI’s impact on creative fields. https://
x.com/martyswant/sta
tus/1705322365716967612?s=46
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Eliezer Yudkowsky denies wanting to control ASI
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Who told you the lie that I wanted to centralize ASI or control it? I want it to not exist. I cannot control it. It kills everyone regardless of who thinks they control it.
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EEOC Strategic Plan Addresses HR Tech and Data Usage Compliance
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EEOC Releases Strategic Enforcement Plan #HRTech #SHRM #BigData https://
shrm.org/resourcesandto
ols/hr-topics/behavioral-competencies/global-and-cultural-effectiveness/pages/eeoc-releases-strategic-enforcement-plan.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Personal AI Agents Could Become Your Legal Proxy
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Your future personal intelligence will have your legal proxy https://
wired.com/story/plaintex
t-smarter-ai-assistants-could-make-it-harder-to-stay-human/
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AI industry downplays existential risks despite doom rhetoric
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I cannot think of any case in history where "our product will kill everyone you love" was a good marketing tactic, and when Nvidia, the major winner so far at $1T cap, testified before the US Senate, they pooh-poohed talk of AGI (not just doom). You have been sold quite the bill
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White Supremacist Funding Influences AI Ethics Signatories
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by citations to white supremacists. https://
lnkd.in/gPT3GnWv "The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that 20 of the signers were recipients of funding from the white-supremacist organization the Pioneer Fund…" -
Nuclear Weapons and AI: Understanding Different Threat Categories
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They are of course vastly different. As Marvin Minsky observed, nuclear weapons are not really dangerous because nuclear weapons are not self-replicating. To this I would add that artificial pathogens are not really dangerous because they're not smart.