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Multiple readings LawZero | Home Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Teresa Heffernan
“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en” evidence ↗
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Olivia Guest Ethan Zuckerman Hagen Blix Teresa Heffernan
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”

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“LawZero (lawzero.org/en) has $300m from the Canadian and German governments to build AI as a global public good, with a focus on building safe, responsible and equitable AI.”

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Olivia Guest: Sup dawg, I heard you trust AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can trust AI while you trust AI.
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawz…
Olivia Guest: prob I should sue
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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Will Oremus
“This is a fairly damning assessment from the man who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports: "As the company sprints from one launch to the next, it is failing to achieve the level of care that I believe is needed." https://t.co/KF7ktJyxyK” evidence ↗
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Will Oremus Ethan Zuckerman Andrew Curran

“This is a fairly damning assessment from the man who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports: "As the company sprints from one launch to the next, it is failing to achieve the level of care that I believe is needed." https://t.co/KF7ktJyxyK”

“Janet invokes David Robinson, who worked on model cards for OpenAI, previously worked on tech and civil rights. Robinson left - very publicly (www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...) because of the lack of a safety culture at OpenAI.”

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“(Also, the Copyright Office report, which the DOJ SOI attacks in a footnote, goes the opposite direction...)” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Ethan Zuckerman: it seems absurd that the government that's getting very significant support from AI companies does not have to disclose that influence over statements like this one.
Ethan Zuckerman: But the Department of Justice has made a statement that it is the policy of the United States that training from AI is fair use. This has been the US government's only statement on AI and copyright…
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