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12 December 2023 17h25

UPDATE! Please call your senators: https://
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Intelligence Alone Doesn’t Drive Human Domination and Success

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12 December 2023 16h44

If it were true that raw intelligence was sufficient for a human to want to dominate others and succeed at it, then Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Leonard Euler, Niels Abel, Kurt Gödel and other scientists would have been both rich and powerful, and they were neither.
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Responsible AI: Data Quality and Cultural Diversity in ML

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12 December 2023 15h34

Don't miss @laroyo give the #NeurIPS2023 opening Keynote talk, “The Many Faces of Responsible AI”, in which she'll discuss the need for culturally-aware, society-centered research on the impact of data quality and diversity for training and evaluation of ML models. Happening now!

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Google Gemini obscures AI technology details from public scrutiny

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12 December 2023 7h50

Google’s Gemini continues the dangerous obfuscation of AI technology Google’s Gemini project discloses almost no relevant technical details, hiding from society what’s happening in the cloud. https://
zdnet.com/article/google
s-gemini-continues-the-dangerous-obfuscation-of-ai-technology/
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Seeing Reality Through AI: Beyond Imagination and Bias

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11 December 2023 23h35

The ability to see through the lens of reality and not what you've conjured up in your imagination.

Congress Vote on Digital Liberties and Basic Rights

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11 December 2023 23h02

US people who care about basic liberties, please read and please encourage the people in congress who vote on your behalf to vote no. It’s piling faster than I can shovel some days but that’s no reason to give up the fight when it’s this important

Mass Surveillance Through Connected Devices: Privacy Under Threat

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11 December 2023 22h05

UGH. Please read, share, call. Fighting for privacy can be wearying, feel defeating, but we need to fight this latest attempted mass surveillance ratchet turn, working to make all of our devices, and the infra they rely on, into snitches. This is not a world we can accept.

Corporate surveillance replaces privacy norm without public consent

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11 December 2023 21h11

In a short few decades, w/o consent or full public awareness, the norm of privacy has been overwritten by the norm of corp (& gov) surveillance, c/o the normalization of the surveillance business model in tech. And yes, Meta is an exemplar here. 2/

Mass Surveillance Threatens Civil Liberties and Political Freedom

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11 December 2023 21h11

This normalization of mass surveillance has chilling consequences. And IMO we're not discussing a hypothetical slippery slope–we're looking up from the bottom. In the US, access to reproductive healthcare is being criminalized, books banned, and political expression silenced. 3/