The Who's Who of AI

“Those “who own our algorithms, who own our cable news networks . . . they and their platforms are engineering our emotions so they can profit off our pain. They are selling us conflict, and they’re calling it connection.” www.ft.com/content/63e8...”

“Anyways, here's some of that discourse from 2019; https://t.co/pzBqIF2MEA + Communities like MD4SG, who piloted in 2016; https://t.co/3CQxeNxYiw And folks like @jessicadai_ explicitly drawing bridges to the language of "alignment" in 2023; https://t.co/3etN…”

“joinreboot.org/p/alignment “All of the AI x-risk scenarios involve a world where we have decided to abdicate responsibility to an algorithm…. There are technical challenges, to be sure, but focusing at the scale of technical decisions elides these higher-le…”

“A slop tsunami is “gumming up your LinkedIn feed, oozing through Twitter and Instagram, and filling every square inch of the internet with treacly spam and viscous sham.” www.derekthompson.org/p/the-intern...”

“New pod/transcript: PANGRAM VS THE MACHINE An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero about why AI writing took over the Web, how Pangram works, why we should trust it, and what he sees as the fundamental differences between machine vs. human writi…”