Evocation hazards: there may be particular information that, when people encounter it, triggers them. This is not just in the common sense of triggering past trauma, but that some conspiracy theories or memes might be unusually tempting to people in particular mental states. 3/
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Information Hazards: How Knowledge Can Cause Harm
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How can knowing something hurt you? Information can sometimes cause harm (think of the annoyance of seeing spoilers as a tiny example). This paper on information hazards was prescient about many of the issues we face today. So, a on some of the hazards of knowledge… 1/
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Environmental Impact Assessments Required Before AI Deployment
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Yes. Can we require environmental impact assessments before any AI design can go public? Where companies demonstrate long term protection of water etc? Where people say “companies won’t like that” or “policy makers are too slow..” Those answers don’t work anymore.
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LLM Mental Health Safety: Testing Before Public Release Required
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Any LLM interacting with humans re their mental health should be tested for a long time before being released to the general public. If they cause harm, they shouldn’t be released. It’s not that complex. It’s about society saying we prioritize care, for planet and people, first.
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AI Ethics Demands Environmental Impact Assessments First
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So any AI Ethics folks of any stipe or background, please recognize this amazing reporting for whatit is – a clarion call to prioritize planet and people FIRST in the design of AI. Note insider say “ban” etc. But urging wide scale environmental impact assessments – YES.
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LLMs versus cattle industry environmental impact comparison ethics
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Then people say, but the cattle industry is worse than LLMs” which I don’t necessarily disagree with, EXCEPT that analogy is akin to saying, “gun deaths by X people is still more than Y people” while inferring or overtly supporting the second scenario!!
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Tech Journalism Must Prioritize Privacy Harms Over AI Hype
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What if — instead of leading with the 'gee whiz AI' angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regulation doesn't apply to them, and chatbots urging self-harm? /fin
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Brilliant researchers launch ambitious AI project skeptics dismiss
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a group of extraordinarily smart and tenacious people who spent all their life trying to understand how to not change opinions but the world, until they got good at it, decide to start a project that few people (including government, press and academia) are ready to believe in
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DSA: Making the Online World Safer for Europe’s Digital Future
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DSA: Making the online world safer | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
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