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 …
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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...
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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.