That is exactly why the organization Science for the People (
@sftpmag
) was created in 1969. Technologists are at the forefront of warfare and genocide and they get to do it while feeling *apolitical* unlike the rest of society.
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Technologists’ Political Role in Warfare and Genocide
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Science education ethics and systemic privilege in AI contexts
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You wouldn't find Black people during Jim Crow or Apartheid South Africa arguing that one should *only do science* in the classroom & find me even one Palestinian making this claim at this moment. These statements always show who the privileged are vs those they oppress.
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Boiling Frog: Gradual AI Risks We Ignore
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Yep. Was thinking of the analogy of the frog in gradually warming water unaware of what comes next.
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AI Automation Shifts Employment Toward Service and Entertainment Industries
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I think that there is an insufficient focus on service industry, but in an AI automated world it makes sense that more people work in entertainment than manufacturing or powerpoint
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Automated Warfare Evolution: Maritime Drones Now Target Fighters
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Watching the continued evolution of automated warfare. Maritime drones have already attacked ships and helos. Now fighters. (Lots of conflicting reporting on the details, but when @CovertShores reports it I believe it). https://
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Geoffrey Hinton Explains Why Large Language Models Worry Him
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Geoffrey Hinton explique pourquoi la montée en puissance des grands modèles de langage l’inquiète. Les humains ne peuvent transmettre leurs connaissances que par le langage, ce qui est limité à quelques bits par seconde, car notre cerveau est analogique et câblé de manière
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CCP Western Institutions Legal System Threat Assessment
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Reminder: We don't have to let the CCP use western institutions and our legal system to destroy us. https://
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Slow down AI progress for European bank holidays
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Hey can we slowdown AI progress by 50% so Europeans can take their state-mandated bank holidays in May?
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Runway Launches Gen-4 References Raising Questions About Hollywood’s Future
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Runway annonce "Gen-4 References".
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 2 mai 2025
Que restera t'il d'Hollywood ? pic.twitter.com/ZYL9I2rVmvRunway annonce "Gen-4 References". Que restera t'il d'Hollywood ?
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Expert Credentials, Scientific Integrity, and Ethical Leadership in AI
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Depending on where you stand, Kareem is a credentialed top tier expert asserting his Science given right and duty to assume ethical leadership, or he is regularly abusing his Harvard credentials to do politics (thereby tainting science with ideology). But “deep humility”?