This a classic case study for anyone working in tech policy www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m.... I don't pretend to know anything about international trade law but there is a bunch of interesting stuff here. 🧵
Who's Who of AI
Rachel Coldicutt
Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
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What they're sharing
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI theguardian.com
giftarticle.ft.com
gatesfoundation.org
Articles & links
I do find this whole thing a bit weird. Anthropic could, literally, stop or change what they are doing at any time www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"They are arguably the modern-day railroad,” Schulte said. “It makes sense for them to issue longer maturities because AI is a long-term infrastructure." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... I'm v sympathetic to long-term infra development, but what if hyperscale AI is as flying…
This is like a case study in how not to do it. Gates Foundation subsidises Anthropic to the tune of $200m to fund "public benefit" www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-...
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Recent commentary
I've done the same "understanding the consequences of AI" talk twice today, and sometimes it's still a surprise even to me just how wide-ranging and varied the harmful impacts of technologies can be when they are badly made and rolled out without care and attention.
Just following on from a group chat with some other senior women in tech about how Claude is suddenly getting very superior and bossy, I can't help but wonder if it also bosses around people it thinks are men? You hear a lot about AI sycophancy but not so much about AI bossiness.
There are totally deranged video ads at London Bridge station for something called Legora, in which Jude Law is giving come hither looks to camera over his shoulder with the strap lines READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH LAW? and LAW NEVER LOOKED THIS GOOD and what if this is not a legal AI platform
Been offline since Thursday and wouldn't it be great if online newspapers had a "last 24 hours" summary, laddering up to "in the last week". (And yes, I'm aware I could ask an LLM to do this for me.)
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