The absolute absurdity of Anthropic putting out a policy document about stopping authoritarian AI while taking money from Abu Dhabi. "We believe that responsibility should rest with democratically elected governments, not authoritarian regimes" is an actual quote from that doc…
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Jillian C. York
Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
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Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? theintercept.com
2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership anthropic.com
The AI Security Landscape: How Frontier Models, Agentic AI, and AI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience – Committee on Homeland Security homeland.house.gov
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The policy document is here in full: www.anthropic.com/research/202...
I don't normally watch committee hearings, but @mguariglia.bsky.social is currently giving testimony to the Committee on Homeland Security about AI and cybersecurity so here we are homeland.house.gov/hearing/the-...
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I was taking some notes on some international human rights frameworks in a Google doc and accidentally clicked on a Gemini suggestion. No, I do not need AI to re-write the ICCPR, thank you very much.
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