Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. https://
researchgate.net/publication/22
8797158_How_complex_systems_fail
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Complex Systems Failure: Why Cascading Failures Plague Modern Infrastructure
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Geoengineering and AI: A Solution for Climate Warming
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A new UN Climate Change report estimates we might be on track to 2.5°C of warming. It's time to seriously consider cooling down Earth by geoengineering using stratospheric aerosol injection, a solution in which AI will play a critical role. See why.
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How to Make AI Safe: Key Solutions and Safeguards
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how could you make it safe? with a great answer to that, we'd definitely be open
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Inverse Scaling Prize Round 2 Evaluation Announcement
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Make sure to check out the inverse scaling prize, which is a great community effort! Looking forward to evaluating on the Round 2 winners 🙂
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Ethics of Releasing On-Device Stable Diffusion Applications
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Interesting read; though releasing or not releasing a port to something that widely exists doesn’t really change anything, does it? https://
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EU Cybersecurity Rules Mandate Aviation Suppliers Defend Flight Safety
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New cybersecurity rules in Europe will for the first time require a swath of aviation suppliers to identify and defend against hacking risks to flight safety #cybersecurity #EU #aviation #hacking
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https://
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Unlearnable Examples: False Security Against Future AI Systems
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Looks cool! However there's a critique that's been applied to unlearnable examples (
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Last week @Trevornoah asked @OpenAI @miramurati
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Ethics of accusation: avoiding adversarial framing risks
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This one is at least feasible. But I'd still personally refrain from accusing anyone, since it's easy to frame someone adversarially or even accidentally.
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Security Vulnerability Identified as Potential Attack Vector
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Yeah, it does look pretty bad. But also seems like a nice attack vector 🙂