This is probably preaching to the choir here, but @jonathanzong.com and @frank.computer have a 🔥 new @techpolicypress.bsky.social op-ed on how AI co-opts, tokenizes, denigrates, and drains the political economy of disability rights. 1/2
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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
Detecting and preventing distillation attacks anthropic.com
AI Doesn't Have ROI wheresyoured.at
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman says the real AI arms race is about controlling your brain businessinsider.com
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want wired.com
Will Apple’s ‘Reference Image’ Feature Help Defend Against AI Manipulation? techpolicy.press
'Machine Gods' explores the latest developments in the world of AI npr.org
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Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’ theverge.com
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If you’re only bummed at anti-AI folks for opportunistically invoking IP-adjacent concerns as a proxy for AI policy priorities, I’m sorry to report you‘ve not reached the limits of your disappointment
With the caveat that Ed's posts are pretty hyperbolic, I think this is at least directionally right about the likelihood that costs will go up, not down, if what's happening in the software industry is any indication.
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Not a lot of investment in using euphemisms for the eugenic fantasies anymore.
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- Stanford's Andrew Huberman told Invest Like The Best that Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic will all become biotech companies focused on the brain.
- He named the goal plainly: read and write from the brain non-invasively, most likely with ultrasound to target specific brain areas.
- Possible uses span sleep, focus and stress wearables, plus more speculative gene therapy paired with light- or ultrasound-activated devices.
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There's a budding revival of late-90s/early-2000s cyberlibertariansm (these ideas on open source AI, enshittification, etc.) that correctly diagnoses problems with concentrated corporate power and then doubles down on *the exact same* law/policy/politics of hyper-individualism…
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Sam Gregory analyzes Apple's new Reference Image feature on the iPhone 18 Pro — "a serious piece of engineering, and a genuine response to the epistemic crisis of AI" — and the unanswered questions it raises.
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In part, some folks are just prone to overrotating on an op that seems in line with their agendas without sweating the details. But there are also tech pundits laundering these technoapocalyptic talking points straight into mainstream media spaces.
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Barf. Microsoft's AI CEO gave some of the most subtly offensive possible responses to @reckless.bsky.social's grilling here. The worst were the retreats on metrics and value of generative AI services, which implied an shockingly low opinion (and understanding) of human needs a…
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Substance aside, pretty extraordinary to see the DOJ attack the credibility of the Register of Copyrights in a public filing like this (from the U.S. OpenAI copyright MDL).
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