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“If I talk to one more person who says “but even if this research direction led to a massive breakthrough in our scientific understanding of neural networks/deep learning/agent foundations, how would that help with AI safety?” I will become the joker.” / X
“Many people are just not seriously grappling with how to build a good future for humanity with AI. This is the best attempt to date. If you do one thing this week, read this” / X
Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit | WIRED
FTC crackdown is warning for all AI-powered companies | VentureBeat
[2409.18786v1] A Survey on the Honesty of Large Language Models
“To get good at AI you need to use AI. So it is good that AI use is a lot more democratized than most technologies: GenAI is cheap & available to billions. A lot of traditional equity gaps in tech are mitigated… except the gender gap. Women use AI significantly less than men.
AI’s Privilege Expansion – by Rex Woodbury – Digital Native
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
OpenAI asks investors not to back rival start-ups such as Elon Musk’s xAI
Gov. Newsom vetoes California’s controversial AI bill, SB 1047 | TechCrunch
AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimate objects? | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AI ban ordered after child protection worker used ChatGPT in Victorian court case | Child protection | The Guardian
“California’s Gavin Newsom Vetoes Controversial AI Safety Bill
AI Can Best Google’s Bot Detection System, Swiss Researchers Find – Decrypt
Gavin Newsom vetoes sweeping AI safety bill, siding with Silicon Valley – POLITICO
California governor vetoes major AI safety bill – The Verge
“NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown Via Reddit
Karpathy comments: “I think I’d be more impacted if they displayed an understanding of their existence as promoted language models generating token sequences. As is, it’s more of a word salad of internet grade AI tropes, but it certainly takes it up a notch with the voice and conversation format.”
This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data | WIRED
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars | WIRED
Negligence Liability for AI Developers | Lawfare
Samsung to Cut Thousands of Jobs Amid Struggles in AI Market
Is AI More Sustainable if You Generate it Underwater? | WIRED
Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’ | Surveillance | The Guardian
Soon After the Deadly Hezbollah Pager Explosions, This AI-Generated Podcast Went Up | WIRED
French AI summit to focus on environmental impact of energy-hungry tech | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
Shh, ChatGPT. That’s a Secret. – The Atlantic
“Through April, 2023: “The release of ChatGPT led to a 2% drop in the number of jobs on [Upwork] and a 5.2% drop in monthly earnings. We find a similar reduction in the employment outcomes of freelancers offering design and image-editing services.” Large effects in a short time.
“Thanks to @willknight, I’m discovering the Sundai Club, a group of Harvard and MIT students, developers and product managers who code for good. They built a tool to help reporters covering AI identify potentially interesting papers posted to the Arxiv. Check out the article:
“WOW. 2 mere weeks to being declared unconstitutional. Californian laws on AI are set to violate freedom of speech and thought in umpteen ways.” / X
Mira Murati’s Departure Is the Latest Drama at OpenAI – The New York Times
OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Sarah Silverman Copyright Case
Ayad Akhtar and Robert Downey Jr. Confront AI – The Atlantic
““These people once showered the world with madly optimistic business plans for how technology might benefit human society. Now they’ve reduced technological progress to a video game that one of them wins by finding the escape hatch”
AI assistants may be sharing your work secrets with clients, co-workers – The Washington Post
China to roll out cybersecurity rules covering generative AI – Nikkei Asia
Southern District of New York | North Carolina Musician Charged With Music Streaming Fraud Aided By Artificial Intelligence | United States Department of Justicehttps://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-musician-charged-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence
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