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Reaction converging Models Don't Go Rogue Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Models Don't Go Rogue

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Benjamin Riley, Elke Schwarz, René Walter
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…” evidence ↗
8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Benjamin Riley Elke Schwarz René Walter
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“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”

5 experts discussed this · 20 posts
Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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4 experts · 19 posts · 5d ago
Anil Dash Luke Stark Karl Bode Mary Branscombe
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“and that concerns me because 1 the least responsibly built and run data centres are the ones that will find a way to short circuit planning processes and rules 2 you can't fix the problem in the lo…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Anil Dash: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
Luke Stark: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
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3 experts · 5 posts · 12d ago
Luke Stark Dan Hon Mary Branscombe
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“FWIW I was building on what you were saying and not criticizing :)” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Dan Hon: This doesn't even get into whether it's being computerized well / what successful computerization is / who it's successful for etc etc -- which are all societal issues.
Dan Hon: ugh this is like a Greatest Hits recapitulation of the last 14 years of newsletter
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