Louise Amoore

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Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics

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This is groundbreaking work on “alignment” from @katschwerzmann.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social Detailing the social & political ethics of the term & mapping anatomy of alignment in LLMs. I think it should be a first port-of-call in studies of alignment www.researchgate…

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Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.

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It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

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Journal editors & research funders commonly report a doubling (+) of submissions as LLMs promise to circumvent the difficulty that is writing. Now people seem to be using Copilot to automate email my daily inbox also doubled to around 200 per day. It’s now useless to me. Among the hallucinations:

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As geographers, we were absolutely doing the right thing when we acknowledged the problems of field trips amid a climate crisis. But now our employers are forcefully embedding LLMs into all aspects of our work. Why don’t they think of the tokenized planetary cost like the aviation cost?

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What better example of how national security logics pervade “AI safety” discourse whilst everyday violences of machine learning persist. Australia incensed that an “AI agent” accessed medical data.. Meanwhile every day medical data handed to Palantir on a platter… 🤔

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@nannathylstrup.bsky.social & @jasmin-p.bsky.social I am connecting you here because you are kindred spirits! And Jasmin is moving from Melbourne to Aarhus. It’s a archives, arts, AI, museums & aesthetics kind of a kinship ❤️

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