While it can seem “mildly terrifying” to read about the scope and scale of our society’s automation, I hope this is a call for us all to participate in shaping the future we want, living alongside AI.
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AI Infiltration in Policing, Justice, Welfare and Healthcare
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My first review! Thanks to @tkbeynon for the s and for engaging with the stories in Code Dependent deeply. “A penetrating look at how we’re allowing artificial intelligence to infiltrate all parts of society, from policing, welfare, justice and health”
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Uganda’s AI Access Advantage Over US Corporate Restrictions
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Everyone in Uganda with a cellphone with data has access to a better AI than most people at large companies in the US, because those companies have more restrictive AI policies and don't get access to GPT 4.
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Meritocratic AI Systems Balancing Competence and Self-Actualization
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Imagine you are looking through everyone's eyes simultaneously, but not everyone has the same skills and traits. You will want the system to be meritocratic (roles should be assigned according to competence), but it should maximize self actualization and integration for all.
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System Incentives Over Incompetence: Why Fixing Systems Is Hard
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Never explain by incompetence and malice what can be explained by people following their actual incentives. Fixing incentives is hard, because the system has no outside
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Just Society Design: Universal Switching Test Ethics
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Imagine you waking up in my body tomorrow, but with my memories, traits and skills, so nothing changes. I believe in a legal system and general societal rules that are designed in such a way that every individual would be ok switching places with every other individual.
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US Living Standards Decline: Health, Housing, Safety Concerns
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The question is not whether the US is going to dissolve but whether living conditions (health, housing, safety, purchasing power etc) decline for a majority of Americans
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AI Model Recognizes Visual Cues of Gentrification
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Gentrification and its consequences are difficult to measure. Scholars including @StanfordHAI faculty affiliate Jackelyn Hwang trained an AI model with images from Google Street View to recognize the visual cues of gentrification. https://
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US Government Control Over Global Tech Platforms: A Power Issue
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If this were about privacy & security, then they'd be targeting Facebook, Instagram, etc as well. But they're not. This's about control & I'm not ok with ANY government exercising such control, particularly (as the US here) over the 'rest of world' via US-homed Big Tech platforms
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Bill threatens foreign tech bans beyond TikTok platform
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I'm surprised to see so many fans of this bill in the old mentions! So let me spell it out: This isn't just about TikTok. The bill gives USG the power to ban any old foreign-owned media/tech they designate as adversarial (while being totally OK w/FB etc serving 'the world')…