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Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School Berlin
Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School Berlin with public evidence across Policy & governance, AI research, Culture, work & education.
NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/…
Don't overlook the importance of the "retrieval" part of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Cornell Tech researchers find it is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate "deep research" AI www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
"The AI Bill of Rights has become one kind of infrastructure, diffuse and informal, but generative." Bad administrations can repeal good policies, but they can't stop others building on them. Superb piece, @alondra.bsky.social
One man's wish could be another country's legal obligation. “This should not have happened,” says veteran security engineer and researcher Niels Provos. “I wish the frontier labs spent as much time on teaching their models to write secure infrastructure as they are on exploiti…
Can AI do fact-checking? We asked an intrepid @wired.com fact checker to fact-check the LLMs: "According to my research, AI is even more wrong than people might think."
Xitters are saying Microsoft has banned use of AI because it costs more than human programmers, but this sounds like the delta between Claude & Microsoft's own AI is smaller than the value Microsoft gets from forcing its programmers to improve its AI. Have I got that right?
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Court holds that Google cannot use DMCA to stop other companies from scraping their search results because search results are not copyrightable, they don't own the content they are serving up, and are not acting on behalf of those who might own the rights arstechnica.com/tech-…
Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the more detailed account of the definition drift. #AIEthics @techpolicypress.bsky.…
"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social ar…
Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-blac…
"Companies across the country are coming around to a radical idea with the potential to upend the industry powering the global economy: They don’t have to blow their budgets on AI." Gift link. www.wsj.com/business/chi...
Anyone know a (preferably UK-located) expert on AI & financial crime?
Conjecture: Big AI is pushing other regions to build data centres, telling them they need to prepare somehow like a local beacon catching the Singularity, but actually just needing them to somehow come up with ways to make the money they’re burning turn in to something profitable. 1/2
I bet the #OpenAI + #Anthropic IPOs are high stakes because SpaceX. Musk bought twitter when Tesla value was briefly pumped so he could have the leverage to do that. If big tech had worked with Biden admin on voluntary #DMA compliance (as they did #DSA) this entropy might be over. 1/2 #AIEthics
Decided to go to #AISE26 rather than @epssnet.bsky.social this week. Had not expected either Geneva or Belfast to be shown as in flames directly before the meetings. AISE is @unidir.org AI Security & Ethics et me know if anyone is there. #AIEthics #AISecurity (is #securityEthics a thing?)
Them: “Please be aware of my new 10 volume scholarly trilogy. I don’t expect you to read it, just to deploy it.” Should I write back “please just you yourself ask your LLM what Joanna Bryson would think of your work.” ?
The one thing I use genAI for is formatting bibtex from scrapes of journal & newspaper article webpages. I do this partly to notice if anything changes. Today my instructions for protecting capital letters in proper nouns broke for every model I every try. E.g. @article, title = {Why me, chat{GPT}?
I have the feeling my Governance & Politics of AI course will be oversubscribed again this semester @hertieschool.bsky.social NEXT semester I'm introducing Digital Sovereignty, which will really be GPAI II. And we'll be in our new building. It's all go. I have 3 weeks to finish writing my book.
So @overleaf.com now allows "download as docx or md"! cc @chrisschmitz.ai
Center = Joanna Bryson. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.
