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Multiple readings theatlantic.com Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 19d ago
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AI black box industry myth

The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s not a black box. It’s just a policy decision.” techpolicy.press/the-black-bo... Or: it’s a remediable black box.” evidence ↗
5 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Joanna Bryson Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Frank Pasquale

““Those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s not a black box. It’s just a policy decision.” techpolicy.press/the-black-bo... Or: it’s a remediable black box.”

“"No one understands" You say a whole bunch of things like they are facts. Which they are not. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean "no one understands." www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...”

4 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Timnit Gebru: Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized b…
Timnit Gebru: The absolute disrespect with which even those of you who say you "have respect" for me teat my decades long expertise, receipts body of work and discourse based on that never ceases to amaze me.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): "risk taking human existence" wtf is this person on about
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Established Models & releases Signal 13d ago
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Anthropic claude morals ai

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Emily M. Bender
“And every time I pause to look back at that, it seems like the hype has gotten bigger, more extensive, and more insidious. This week, I am seeing credulous media coverage of Anthropic consulting with religious thinkers to try to work out how to "grow" Claud…” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Jason Koebler Scott McGrath Ronen Tamari Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale +5

“And every time I pause to look back at that, it seems like the hype has gotten bigger, more extensive, and more insidious. This week, I am seeing credulous media coverage of Anthropic consulting with religious thinkers to try to work out how to "grow" Claud…”

“Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.””

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.”
Louise Amoore: Well it’s interesting. I mean, to me the problem here is this notion of “to abide by a moral code”.. so the reduction of ethics to a code or a set of principles by which we live or “abide”. This is…
Louise Amoore: actions according to their fit to a code, well then this is already a matter of exercising normative power. If instead we ask how do ethical norms arise in the context of algorithmic power (exercis…
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Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago

theatlantic.com

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Oliver Lemon
“Important article: AI urgently needs to import safety and regulatory expertise from areas like nuclear, biosecurity, and aviation www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...” evidence ↗
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angela zhou Suresh Venkatasubramanian Nick Diakopoulos Frank Pasquale Dare Obasanjo tante Charles Logan Oliver Lemon +2
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Suresh Venkatasubramanian: I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about cult…
Gina Helfrich: It was going so well, until the final paragraph.
angela zhou: I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about cult…
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