The end of office The office market had it hard in 2023. Next year looks worse. – The Wall Street Journal
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Embedded Ethics Curricula: Proactive Social Outcome Consideration in CS
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Breakthroughs in computer science can have unintended consequences. What if students had to consider social outcomes proactively? Enter embedded ethics curricula. @stanfordethics
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FTC Strengthens COPPA Rules Limiting Advertising to Children
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The @FTC just proposed new updates for COPPA including stricter rules for advertising to kids across various platforms. https://
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AI Revolution: A Historical Transformation Unlike Any Before
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I’m constantly befuddled by how many otherwise tech-savvy people still consider what is going on with AI right now as just another technological breakthrough, albeit a major one. Folks, we are in a midst of historical change none of us have ever seen.
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Yud’s AI Alarmism: Needless Terror and Detachment
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Just reading Yud is sufficient to be needlessly terrified (emphasis on "needlessly").
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AI is not science fiction: it’s transforming our world
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AI's not sci-fi. Look around. It's transforming our world.
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Historical lessons for modern democracy and technological governance
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I think most democracies have learned from the excess of the industrial revolution, the Gilded Age, which caused the emergence of communism, the 1929 Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, WWII, and the establishment of social democracies post WWII.
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Is Human Governance Just Collective Hallucination?
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Hot take: most of what we call “human governance” is in fact a collective hallucination.
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Balancing AI existential risk with today’s pressing problems
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I’d like to apologise for the use of the word cultist. I realise many amazing people working on AI existential risk do care profoundly about today’s problems. I don’t think it is wise to take the extreme view that existential risk means we can underplay today’s problems (my
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Technology as Power: Social and Political Consequences
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All technology is a form of power. @FortuneMagazine “And from the earliest tools to today’s world of social media and generative AI, it comes with major social and political consequences.”