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Almost half a century later, IBM's internal training documents from the late 70s are specifically valuable in the era of #AI.
@EUCommission in 2020: Some #AI systems are so dangerous, they should be regulated as high-risk applications with lots of safeguards.
@EUCommission in 2025: Bah, let's wait and let the high-risk shit run wild first.
If you want to know in short-read format what happened at today's Franco-German #DigitalSummit on #DigitalSovereignty, and how much #AI #hyperscaler #innovation BS there was including from #Macron and #Merz themselves, read this excellent thread by @j2bryson :
2/4 What do the #DigitalOmnibus proposals mean for our #DataProtection and #privacy?
🚩weaken ePrivacy rules, opening the door to constant tracking of phones, cars, and smart devices
🚩 reopen and hollow out the GDPR, allowing corporations to mark their own homework
🚩create a digital environment where state actors and corporate powers – especially Big Tech - gain more freedom to collect and exploit personal information
3/4 What do the #DigitalOmnibus proposals mean for protections against harmful #AI systems?
🚩 the proposals tear apart the #AIAct, letting companies secretly exempt themselves from oversight and giving risky AI systems a free pass to discriminate or cause harm
🚩give in to industry demands and delay the implementation of essential protections.
@EUCommission in 2020: Some #AI systems are so dangerous, they should be regulated as high-risk applications with lots of safeguards.
@EUCommission in 2025: Bah, let's wait and let the high-risk shit run wild first.
FWIW I read this as a not-very-coded warning to governments that they need to get their wallets out. They learned from the banks that as long as they got "too big to fail" they could knowingly inflate this bubble without personal consequences. #AI #Google #USPol #UKPol #TechNews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
If you want to know in short-read format what happened at today's Franco-German #DigitalSummit on #DigitalSovereignty, and how much #AI #hyperscaler #innovation BS there was including from #Macron and #Merz themselves, read this excellent thread by @j2bryson :
Almost half a century later, IBM's internal training documents from the late 70s are specifically valuable in the era of #AI.
FWIW I read this as a not-very-coded warning to governments that they need to get their wallets out. They learned from the banks that as long as they got "too big to fail" they could knowingly inflate this bubble without personal consequences. #AI #Google #USPol #UKPol #TechNews
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
"... Now, I think the game that these guys are playing is different than the traditional one that you see on Wall Street. I think they know they’re in a bubble, and I don’t think they care…." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-ai-bubble #AI #AIBubble
"... Now, I think the game that these guys are playing is different than the traditional one that you see on Wall Street. I think they know they’re in a bubble, and I don’t think they care…." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-ai-bubble #AI #AIBubble
So the whole thread that emerged after the cats and bears video I posted yesterday got me thinking about the philosophical and ethical issues surrounding #AI.
As a technology, no matter how much I hate it, it’s not going away.
It’s what gets done with it - the intention behind its use - that becomes disturbing, right? As with any technology.
And sadly, our collective experience is that new technologies usually get employed, one was or another, to harm us.
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So the whole thread that emerged after the cats and bears video I posted yesterday got me thinking about the philosophical and ethical issues surrounding #AI.
As a technology, no matter how much I hate it, it’s not going away.
It’s what gets done with it - the intention behind its use - that becomes disturbing, right? As with any technology.
And sadly, our collective experience is that new technologies usually get employed, one was or another, to harm us.
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Lightcone is the rationalist org that runs LessWrong these days and runs totally not race science conferences for the rationalists.
Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX donated $6m to Lightcone. Then FTX in ch 11 wrote demanding a clawback (cos it was stolen customer funds).
Lightcone ... just ignored it! This went badly for Lightcone. They had to sell a conference space to raise the funds. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism
this is Oliver Habryka, CEO of Lightcone, on his thinking on this issue:
> "Oh man, we are being sued by FTX. I should hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare our defense." WRONG. I mean yes, of course go ahead and hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare the defense. But in-parallel use language models to prepare a defense yourself, then run the defense by the lawyer you hired until you think you understand reasonably well what the core constraints are. Then work together with the bankruptcy lawyer on the defense.
Habryka wrote this a few years *after* Lightcone completely fucked this one. Well done, Oliver.
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/cegJvyiP2dBkhDh2K/p/rSCxviHtiWrG5pudv
@davidgerard I just started reading Adam Becker's new book More Everything Forever, in which David is briefly quoted. It's clear that tech billionaires KNOW they're right. Sam Altman is more deluded and morally corrupt than I had suspected (by page 7).
🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition
I want an AI Window and all this other AI crap in my browser as much as I want cesium-137 in my shrimp.
:firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115544059139918704
Mozilla keeps telling it's optional etc but at the same time they keep stuffing it in people's face @mozilla
I'm not sure how much more clear we need to be we don't want #AI bs in every product
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