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Reaction converging Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender Concern & critique · 6 attributable reactions
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Gebru Bender AI war risk essay

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Timnit Gebru, Eryk Salvaggio, The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to hum…” evidence ↗
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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Tamara Kneese Martin Trapp Karen Gregory The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute +3
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to hum…”

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“New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.…”

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Emily M. Bender: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Luke Stark: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Emily M. Bender: Yes we mention this in the article.
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4 experts · 9 posts · 7d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Robin Z
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“i think a lot of folks who are tuned in to the many harms of ai/surveillance tech struggle with how to talk about it without getting stuck on the details of particular devices or platforms, and imo…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: *this is funny actually because professor harold hill says you don't need to practice your instrument to get good, you can "use the think method" which is not terribly dissimilar to the pitch made …
Anthony Moser: and it's important to remember (especially for talking with people who aren't interested in the tech) *you don't need to deeply evaluate or disprove the claims of a con man* you just need to spot t…
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3 experts · 11 posts · 17d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Jed Brown
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“Really not sure what the point of this is. I do my very best to avoid consuming synthetic media, even though I can't always avoid it. Does not being able to avoid it somehow devalue my critique of …” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: Really not sure what the point of this is. I do my very best to avoid consuming synthetic media, even though I can't always avoid it. Does not being able to avoid it somehow devalue my critique of …
Emily M. Bender: Or is the claim supposed to be "Everybody uses it dude!" aka another attempt to normalize the whole horrific enterprise and pressure others into accepting it?
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2 experts · 14 posts · 14d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest
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“I'm with her on that, there is no way in which anyone should be promoting chatbots as therapy. To do so is despicable. (And I worry for anyone who is spontaneously trying that out.) >>” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: But mixed in, Prof. Turkle kept saying things like "It's totally fine to use ChatGPT to ask xyz medical question" or "It's great if AI is going to help find lots of new drugs". >>
Emily M. Bender: And all of this is summed up with "Stay in your lane" aimed at the chatbots: a righteous and rightful call to keep them out of psychotherapy and related fields. >>
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3 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Christian Wolf
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“Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.
Olivia Guest: Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.
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