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Google employees are making memes and sharing them internally about how bad its AI sucks and how much they hate using it. The memes are going viral within the company. Is that good www.404media.co/google-emplo...
The SpaceX IPO is going to mint thousands of new millionaires. Elon Musk alone is going to make hundreds of billions of dollars. Who'd not getting rich? Anyone who lives near the pollution-spewing turbines that power the company's AI ambitions. from @mollytaft.com
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
The growing number of AI devices aimed at seniors make surveillance seem like a condition of care, @claraberridge.bsky.social tells @wired.com: "“There might be consent, but it doesn’t necessarily make it an ethical process where choices are so constrained." www.wired.com/stor…
An excellent interview with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social on safety engineering (in contrast to the clown show of "AI safety"). This discussed abdication of standards and safety revisionism is paralleled in computational science & engineering with abandonment of verification and va…
No, Anthropic is not the good guy. Not when the US uses Claude to do war crimes. I spoke with Maddy Batt from @techjusticelaw.bsky.social about the truth behind Anthropic’s “brave stand” against the US government. Listen to the conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/comp...
Academia is in a toxic love triangle with the military and Big Tech, and their love language is money. I spoke with @davidthewid.bsky.social about this triangle - how academia may unwittingly advance AI warfare, how we got into this mess in the first place, and how we get out …
Piece is here: www.latimes.com/world-nation...
I keep hearing an argument that the closer someone is to the development of AI the more likely they are to think AGI is close. Two observations:
Warning: using AI to summarize the Encyclical is in fact a mortal sin.
At Google IO. I gotta say I'm not sure what I expected, but watching a monopoly fashion itself as a consumer company is wild. They played "I Just Can't Get Enough" unironically to announce a set of new financial transaction "agentic" protocols. Cheery, next gen rent seeking.
Typoed "shock market value" when writing about the Anthropic IPO and actually yeah that should be a thing.
Oh the UK got a new AI & Sovereignty minister! Question. Is it Sam Altman?
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