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MIT Professor Explores AI and Robotics Benefits Risks Future
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AI and Surveillance: Shaping Technology’s Future
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I loved talking to @madhumita29 for Lunch with the FT! We spoke on my personal journey through the enchanted forest of 2000s era-tech, why we must connect AI + surveillance, and the nascent rumblings of a better tech future that I see on the horizon.
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EU Degrowth Movement Challenges Consumption and Population Growth
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In some EU countries degrowth is quite popular. You can hear people saying there’s too much people on this planet, or that we need to consume less.
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Democratizing AI Capabilities Safer Than Limiting to Wealthy
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We do not ban these things (although historically many have tried, in various forms) because enlightened society believes spreading these capabilities widely is safer than limiting them to the rich and powerful.
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Power Politics and Economic Forces Shaping AI’s Future
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Power, people & politics – central forces behind OpenAI’s news from this week. My @ftweekend lunch w/Signal’s mer__edith addresses these exact themes: the economic forces that shape AI’s impact, power of workers & the need for alternative models of tech.
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EU Compliance Gaps in Big Tech Regulation Debate
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It has nothing to do with homogeneity within EU nations, but compliance at the top-level that's unambiguously completely missing. What specific regulations? (To me it seems you're regurgitating the argument of Big Tech without having thought about it.)
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US Tech Monopolies Exploit EU Regulation Gaps for Profit
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"AI not available in the EU" is not a sign of regulation problems. It simply reflects of U.S.-style capitalist Trusts extorting — as they always do — people out of their rights for profit (e.g. privacy rights, property rights, publicity rights). 135 years later, still the same:
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Objective Fairness and Minimizing Subjective Unfairness Perception
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I don’t think there’s an objective fairness. Maybe just how to minimize the subjective feeling of unfairness of everyone.
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AI’s Impact on Global Inequality: Widening or Bridging the Gap?
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Will AI Solve The World's Inequality Problem – Or Make It Worse? Explore the dual impact of #AI on #societal #inequality: will it widen the wealth gap or foster equal access to essential services? Dive into the potential of AI to reshape global #equity, emphasizing the
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Greater Good Rhetoric Threatens Individual Liberty and Freedom
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“Greater good” is a term that miserable fanatics use to justify taking away individual liberties. As he said, we need neither your counsels nor your arms.