Reuben Binns
Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Compute & infrastructure, Responsible AI.
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A year on from releasing our audit of Uber's pricing and pay algorithms, our collaborators @workerinfox.bsky.social have filed this class action lawsuit in Amsterdam. Drivers across Europe may win €billions compensation for violations of their rights under GDPR: www.theguardia…
"There’s no risk that CorridorKey is going to tell kids to self-harm in the way that ChatGPT does. Because CorridorKey has a specific job to do. And that’s the way AI should work — solving a specific problem for a particular community" www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/o...
A neat trick to test LLM's 'reasoning' is to present a well-known dilemma or riddle, but add a small perturbation which removes the source of contradiction. A few years back I had fun trying out famous thought experiments from ethics like the Trolley Problem and Organ Harvest …
While I do think much current talk of AI consciousness is deranged, possibly AI psychosis-induced, I also don't think philosophers have a robust basis to decisively debunk it either. This paper 'On Cheap Artificial Consciousness' lays out a good case for why that is: philpaper…
Recent commentary
I'm hearing reports that Volkswagen's AI has been scheming to deceive its evaluators into thinking its emissions are safe. We need to shut down all cars until they are climate-aligned.
Missing cat Man with van Bassist wanted AI math fight, £100 prize
The problem with applying Occam's razor to explain AI system behavior - i.e. "human-like outputs are most simply explained by positing a human-like mind" - is that what seems like the 'simplest' explanation is just the one we're used to for most human-like behavior we've encountered until now
I'm seeing this line that you shouldn't worry about AI taking your job, because we'll just sell more stuff cheaper (Jevons' paradox). But this assumes induced demand, which in turn assumes an economy where people have enough disposable income left to buy your stuff if only it was a bit cheaper
Good writing means imagining being the reader, not knowing what you know, and reconstructing how their mind might feel as it pieces together various arrangements of words. LLMs 'write well' not by imagining a reader, but by inducing and reproducing patterns in the outputs of this imaginative process
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