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UTAW AI trust governance essay

UTAW: Trust is not Governance

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Andreas Kirsch David Picard Sean O hEigeartaigh

“As published by @utaw.tech: utaw.tech/news/trust-... The full essay, with all sources and easier to read citations, is here: www.blackhc.net/essays/trus... Speaking in my personal capacity as a UTAW member, not on behalf of Google or DeepMind.”

“Thoughtful essay from Andreas Kirsch about corporate governance, surveillance and military uses of AI, and the Google/Pentagon contract. Worth a read. utaw.tech/news/trust-i...”

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Andreas Kirsch: I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon…
Andreas Kirsch: I'm a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, writing in my personal capacity. More than 600 colleagues and I signed an open letter asking Sundar Pichai not to put our AI models on classified…
Andreas Kirsch: What was signed? According to The Information, the contract permits "any lawful government purpose," requires Google to help adjust safety settings and filters at the government's request, and give…
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8 experts · 10 posts · 9d ago
Naomi Saphra Maria Antoniak Eugene Vinitsky Christian Wolf Djamé 🟥 Claas Voelcker David Picard ICML Conference
ICML Conference: This year, ICML maintains a presence on Twitter/X, Bsky, and LinkedIn. The other two have much higher engagement than Bsky. We would consider using Facebook as well, but we are currently unable to …
ICML Conference: Note that policies on social media use may differ from year to year, and are at the discretion of the organizing committee. Another organizer for another conference in another year thought Bsky was…
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5 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Christian Wolf Pierre Alquier Martin Trapp David Picard Michiel Bontenbal
Christian Wolf: In the book "The Diamond Age" (1995) by Neal Stephenson, a working class child jumps social classes with the help of a unique interactive book, a personal trainer which answer all her questions and…
Christian Wolf: That's a good point but IMO that means we need to change education to better exploit the benefits of IA. Don't ask me details, I don't have them 😅 But better tools and possibilities CANNOT lead to …
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7 experts · 11 posts · 16d ago
Thomas Dietterich Jacob Eisenstein Christian Wolf Alexander Hoyle David Picard Eric Brachmann Kabir Kumar, aiplans.org
Christian Wolf: The impact of Claude: it - has become very cheap to produce submissions (quality?) - remains very expensive to evaluate them by humans. Possible solutions are limited (I don't advocate ... yet) - L…
David Picard: Limit the number of sub. You start the year with 2 tokens, if you want more tokens, then you review 2x per token.
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4 experts · 7 posts · 13d ago
Christian Wolf David Picard John Herrman Colin
Christian Wolf: To me this is not new and not surprising: (Applied) ML always had a very strong experimental component and finding out what trained models can do is akin to studying biological systems. This has on…
David Picard: To me this is not new and not surprising: (Applied) ML always had a very strong experimental component and finding out what trained models can do is akin to studying biological systems. This has on…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 13d ago
Djamé 🟥 David Picard Abby Stylianou
Djamé 🟥: Super urgent, I'm desperately trying to find two emergency reviewers for Neurips on a super interesting paper that study how LLM alignements evaluation depends on many different geopolitical factor…
David Picard: Super urgent, I'm desperately trying to find two emergency reviewers for Neurips on a super interesting paper that study how LLM alignements evaluation depends on many different geopolitical factor…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 16d ago
Mark Riedl David Picard jake
Mark Riedl: "I want to open the black box that is LLMs and see what they are thinking!" Do you though? bsky.app/profile/isol...
David Picard: "I want to open the black box that is LLMs and see what they are thinking!" Do you though? bsky.app/profile/isol...
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2 experts · 3 posts · 15d ago
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David Picard: It's a funny jab, but it's not true. You can read very carefully all the papers you can, it will not prevent you to copy/paste a buggy bibtex from Google scholar. The only thing preventing bad refe…
David Picard: Errors in bibtex on scholar can include shortened title, missing/hallucinated authors, wrong venue and wrong year. Any combination of those will likely be considered a fake reference
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