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Elke Schwarz

71 trust researcher @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 4,755 followers
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
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Policy makers, take note. There are similar sentiments, rightfully so, amongst my students and peers here in UK. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

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  • Local permit campaigns have already successfully blocked AI data center construction, creating a replicable model for future opposition.
  • Majority poll opposition to AI's development pace now gives legislators bipartisan political cover to push restrictive regulation.
  • Activist groups and legislators are coordinating across multiple simultaneous fronts, not acting as isolated individual incidents.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 0 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 5 from the directory shared this · 29d ago

Unsurprising to most observers of the AI industry, but it nonetheless raises a host of complex (ethical) questions: a) what are the ethics of a company making a tech that creates security threats & then sells software that helps address such security threats? 1/ www.ft.com/con…

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 15 ↻ 7 ↩ 1 · 4 from the directory shared this · 13d ago

Preach! Glad to see that the pope is speaking our language ... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1231...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 2 ↩ 0 · 4 from the directory shared this · 24d ago
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I can't quite figure out where the critical voices are here ... shouldn't the BBC be making an effort for impartiality on this crucial political issue? It's as though the significant risks AI poses are simply an acceptable price to pay for a technology with as-of-yet-uncertain large scale benefits.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 21d ago

When will we be able to pivot from "AI has the potential to [insert benefit]" to "AI has shown to be [doing the benefit]"? When will this potential be realised, rather than remain a millenarian trope around which to organise the present?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 2 ↩ 0 · 15h ago

Idk, Wes Streetings speech seemed like a strange hotchpotch of talking points (an uncharitable assessment would perhaps suspect low level ChatGPT use here). What struck me as most interesting was his use of the language we are familiar with from tech industry / oligarchy contexts ... 1/

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 32d ago

If there was effective regulation against systems that have known harmful effects on humans and human environments would an AI company's valuation of nearly USD 1 trillion be possible? Discuss.

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