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Established Models & releases Signal 19d ago

Openai warnings security

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Mark Riedl Eryk Salvaggio Dylan Freedman Sheera Frenkel Dare Obasanjo Hagen Blix John Herrman Jeffrey Vagle
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Accelerating Policy & governance Development 8h ago
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AI local laws database built

LawZero | Home

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Olivia Guest Ethan Zuckerman Hagen Blix Teresa Heffernan
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

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”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“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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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 12d ago
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against AI campus higher ed essay

Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

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Olivia Guest Shannon Mattern Eileen Clancy 🧿 Hagen Blix Ben Williamson Veni Kunche Teresa Heffernan

“Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed Oct 23 > Employers and legislators are pushing Ed Tech and Artificial Intelligence through universities and colleges across the USA. Organized labor needs a comprehensive response Read more and sign up: www…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

Gambling prediction markets statistics

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Hagen Blix Frank Pasquale Meredith Martin VE, cybersocial occult investigator
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
New AI field signal Analysis 14h ago
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Why we fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Ali Alkhatib Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix

“this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago”

“That's also chapter 2 of Why We Fear AI! www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-f...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hagen Blix: The projection of the climate threat onto AI is a major theme of our book, too
Tom Wallis: I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize ex…
Hagen Blix: Let us know what you think!
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Primary source commonnotions.org ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
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Why We Fear AI book essay

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press

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Hypervisible Luke Stark Hagen Blix
9 experts discussed this · 126 posts
SE Gyges: this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security pro…
SE Gyges: *projects, damn
SE Gyges: i am hoping to carve out a niche of hater that hates specific bad actors for specific bad acts instead of being mad about the bot itself
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Primary source commonnotions.org ↗
New AI field signal Signal 14h ago

bookshop.org

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Hagen Blix

“Hey Peter, thanks a lot for writing this! I think you'd like our book - chapter 2 is all about AI as a form of enclosure, too. (We even open the book with a Hobsbawm quote, too)”

Primary source bookshop.org ↗
Established AI research Research 9d ago
ML ethical judgments NLP paper

On the Machine Learning of Ethical Judgments from Natural Language

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Hagen Blix

“Don't forget about language! Also totally solved! (I co-wrote a paper a few years ago telling the Natural Language Processing community that ethics is not a benchmarkable problem that you can "solve", but.. well, you can imagine how much of an effect that had)”

3 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Hagen Blix: They're all guys who think the answer to the trolley problem is literally just a number
Hagen Blix: They're people who cultivate a "personality" around a particular number at which they'd flip the switch.
Hagen Blix: Don't forget about language! Also totally solved! (I co-wrote a paper a few years ago telling the Natural Language Processing community that ethics is not a benchmarkable problem that you can "solv…
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

Netflix drops trailer for new series about Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and the FTX scandal

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Hagen Blix

“> "Over the course of the years that our show depicts, Sam and Caroline, with the very best of intentions, talked each other and themselves into committing a number of terrible crimes," creator and showrunner Graham Moore said. Hey, did you know they stole …”

Primary source businessinsider.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Canadian S24 root Achieved

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Hagen Blix

“There's also this stuff: xdaforums.com/t/canadian-s... People are just pointing local models at devices and are like "get root". In this case, it took two weeks to root a flagship Samsung device. A few years ago, a zero day exploit like that might have cost…”

Primary source xdaforums.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

nytimes.com

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Hagen Blix

“@leifw.bsky.social and @beenwrekt.bsky.social wrote an opinion piece on this a while back, too (Side note: I still think it's amazing they got the nyt to print a figure of a robot photo-copying its "butt" into a bar chart)”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 12 posts · 20d ago
Hagen Blix Matthew Kirschenbaum tweety fish
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Let me put it this way: that others routinely misinterpret your words to the point where you feel called to patrol social media to confront and correct them, is its own indicator that “communicativ…
tweety fish: Let me put it this way: that others routinely misinterpret your words to the point where you feel called to patrol social media to confront and correct them, is its own indicator that “communicativ…
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3 experts · 7 posts · 20d ago
Henry Farrell Rachel Coldicutt Hagen Blix
Rachel Coldicutt: I see some discussion here about the days of stochastic parrots being over, and I think there is an in-ter-est-ing thing to note that *one's own* conversations a chatbot can seem quite plausible an…
Rachel Coldicutt: And it canNOT simply be the case that everyone else is a loser using Opus 5.1 while you're on Fable 5.5 or whatever, I do honestly thing there is something strangely ego-soothing about it that make…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 17d ago
Hagen Blix Justin Joque
Justin Joque: In my AI class today I'm going to try to convince my students that super intelligence has already arrived, far surpassed humanity, already rules the world with humans doing its will and it is not a…
Hagen Blix: Ha, Why We Fear AI said it might be wheat or the potato!
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