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The Who's Who of AI

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Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago
⚡ 6 h early

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Lilian Edwards, Dr. Elinor Carmi
“Despite my usual dislike of reactive unnecessary new law, i think there’s a strong case for criminalising deliberate removal of anti-surveillance features in consumer goods. Easily done too by a slight tweak of s 3A Computer Misuse Act 1990 www.theguardian.…” evidence ↗
5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Established Models & releases Signal 19d ago
⚡ 62 h early

How ai models from openai and anthropic went rogue a28e29ee

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · blair
“There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...”

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4 experts · 10 posts · 4d ago
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“Yup... It's not only real but sadly a vulnerability that preexisted the 2020s” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
blair: Doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research part…
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র: Doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research part…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 4d ago
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“qualitative research is biased and subjective. instead, we have Number, which we will make sense of in a way that surely is unbiased and objective.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
blair: "we find that people in these less developed countries more frequently trust AI and feel more positively about the role of AI in society" "interesting did you ask them why?" "no but here's some bas…
blair: Strange tendency in quant social sciences to gather survey responses about sentiments/perspectives/beliefs amongst a population and speculate on why respondents might hold those sentiments/perspect…
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