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Reaction converging Models Don't Go Rogue Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion) Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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models don't go rogue essay

Models Don't Go Rogue

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Benjamin Riley, Elke Schwarz, René Walter
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…” evidence ↗
8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Benjamin Riley Elke Schwarz René Walter
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”

5 experts discussed this · 20 posts
Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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students reject Gen AI conscientious objectors

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Benjamin Riley, Jane Rosenzweig
“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…” evidence ↗
9 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Luke Stark Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Salomé Viljoen Benjamin Riley Ben Williamson Pavel +1
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Iris van Rooij: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
Iris van Rooij: “(...) they wanted to work together across their human differences to negotiate new ideas and find ways of expressing them. And they didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to generative AI. Th…
Olivia Guest: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
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5 experts · 10 posts · 14d ago
Casey Newton Sam Biddle Benjamin Riley Colin José Marichal
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“I did yeah. I don't want to say lest crazy people on here try to review bomb their Yelp or something. It sucks but they don't deserve The Internet's Wrath. The sandwich they sold me was good.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sam Biddle: The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
Benjamin Riley: “Chat how do I prevent @colin-fraser.net from losing it when he sees this being shared?”
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2 experts · 20 posts · 8h ago
Benjamin Riley Shriram Krishnamurthi
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“Also, there's no danger of my violating embargo, I don't have 5 spare seconds. (-:” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Biggest downside to getting my course sites finalized with Claude's help is that EVERY annoyance I have seen, I can now get fixed…so after every hour of work, my todo list is a bit longer than an h…
Benjamin Riley: Hi Shriram. I’m curious if you are familiar with Alpha School? I’m working on a story about it.
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3 experts · 21 posts · 16d ago
Hagen Blix Benjamin Riley Anthony Moser
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“Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: .. something that we construct in each other. Much of it is about mutual legibility. Now, for the first time, we have machines that go off the deep end with you, that create a sense of legibility t…
Hagen Blix: Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be
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4 experts · 10 posts · 18d ago
Benjamin Riley Colin rev. howard arson Max Woolf
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“What’s kind of crazy is 5 years ago if any Google product produced output like this it would be a cataclysmic event inside and outside of Google. It would be the top headline on Buzzfeed News. Goog…” evidence ↗
Colin: What’s kind of crazy is 5 years ago if any Google product produced output like this it would be a cataclysmic event inside and outside of Google. It would be the top headline on Buzzfeed News. Goog…
Colin: Fear of this is what caused them to squander their head start on LLMs and spend the last 5 years catching up to OpenAI.
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