1944: Spitfire version XIV, first human operated machines optimized to fight robots, the V-1s. We must optimize robots to be safe for humans & not let hubris drive us to disastrously deploy them too early. We need robots to save us from demographic inversion and climate change.
SAFETY
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Synthetic text use cases and environmental impact assessment
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Great talk by @emilymbender about what are ok use cases of synthetic text and what aren't. But even for those that are ok use cases, we need to ask the question of whether those use cases are worth the environmental impact. https://
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AI Tools Must Stop Harming Planet Until Water-Free Solutions
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Stop building tools that knowingly cause harm (not just “risk”) to our hurting planet until said tools don’t use water. This would bring real awe – prioritizing planet and people over productivity and profit.
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LLM Water Consumption Raises Environmental and Ethical Concerns
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What I find remarkable is the continued research showing how much water is used (1/2 a liter for every 15 minute LLM interaction according to a recent paper from Cornell) for GenAI while so much of the world burns and is in drought. We don’t need hallucinations. We need water.
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Autonomous Vehicle Hit by Emergency Vehicle at Green Light
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See the follow on tweets. Had a green light but got hit by an emergency vehicle. Passenger injured. Without knowing more details feels like an edge case for which a rule needs to override learning. https://
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Fear to Action: Confronting Big Tech and Environmental Crisis
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Really tired of being scared of big oil. And the data brokers. And the bigots. Trying to shift the fear to a form of “don’t take any shit” kindness. Where the madness stops first where we may have a slim chance of saving the planet.
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Tech Leadership’s Sensationalism on AI Existential Risks Questioned
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to be clear – i suppose i get the incentives on both sides (media wants sensational heds; i guess its good PR if Sam is talking about end times) it all just seems dumb to me, especially from the tech co perspective
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Media focuses on AI apocalypse instead of current capabilities
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i don't understand what the point of all this is — both from the media perspective of focus on APOCALYPSE and also from Sam/OpenAI's perspective of talking so much about it. we're just so stuck on the ai hypotheticals instead of being interested in what they do/don't do now
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AI Leaders Acknowledge Dangers in Joint Ethics Statement
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AI leaders sign a statement to openly acknowledge the dangers of #AI https://
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Human Intimacy Cannot Be Reduced to AI Codes
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"Human intimacy cannot be reduced to a set of codes." Read here https://
adiowrites.wordpress.com/2023/07/31/of-
ai-girlfriends-heady-cocktail-of-fallacies-and-ethical-quandaries/
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