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Reaction converging What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
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AI cult policymakers warning essay

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Justin Hendrix, M.J. Crockett, Nick Diakopoulos
“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest M.J. Crockett Hypervisible Nick Diakopoulos David Kaye Meredith Martin +4
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”

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“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”

11 experts discussed this · 33 posts
Mike Masnick: To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often …
Mike Masnick: Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world…
Pwnallthethings: It is, I have to say, incredibly annoying that AI safety includes both some quite serious risks, some plainly massive economic and political force, and, yes, some genuinely serious people, but mixe…
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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

Meta debuts dedicated palm sized muse charm device to use ai on the go

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · José Marichal
“So while governments (and the AI companies themselves) around the world are freaking out about misaligned agent swarms, Meta is making agents available to everyone in cute Tamagochi form??” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible José Marichal Ben Winters

“So while governments (and the AI companies themselves) around the world are freaking out about misaligned agent swarms, Meta is making agents available to everyone in cute Tamagochi form??”

““People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Hypervisible : “People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can …
Ben Winters: “People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can …
Hypervisible : Mostly what big tech companies make now are ai delivery devices. There’s no particular point to them other than to get you to engage with ai, because that’s what the companies want (as opposed to m…
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4 experts · 15 posts · 6d ago
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark VE, cybersocial occult investigator
Matches Policy & governance
“Unfortunately that kind of thing is now influencing national technology policy, so, not great!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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3 experts · 15 posts · 17d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator tweety fish
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“And that gets back to your point the pretense about super intelligence is in fact a means of avoiding liability. Every single action that these AI systems take is something that they were programme…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Context & explanation · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The “AI copies itself to another computer” meme and the “recursive self improvement” meme are both ideas originating in science fiction, but which sound technically plausible enough due to the way …
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It seems pretty clear that the technologists at the foundation labs are not experts at computer science and software engineering generally but have specialist expertise in only one very narrow aspe…
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