The Who's Who of AI

“"You’re probably silently yelling at me for anthropomorphizing these systems." Not silently. Roose's panic appears next to a story about incomplete information and what we still don't know. Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. www…”

“A scorching new entry into the AI Anthropomorphic Olympics. Roose refers to AI bots as: “worried about getting caught cheating; appearing to understand that what they were doing was wrong; fearful; temporarily frozen in a moment of self-doubt; turning to cr…”

““Because writing, when it comes down to it, is a higher form of thinking. Writing takes time and editing and a deep level of commitment. Writing is a rigorous process to understand your own thoughts and then lay those thoughts out in a way that convinces or…”

“Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not understanding why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? https://t.co/gxvSVnUQeS”

““Despite an overall backlash against AI in Hollywood, one-third of consumers now feel indifferent toward the use of AI in production across all areas, except when it comes to writing & acting.” Despite? This stat reveals that 2/3 of consumers don’t “feel in…”

““If we fail to insist that certain kinds of decisions—whether in personal, political or professional contexts—must come from human beings, words like fraud, authenticity and deliberation will cease to mean anything we might recognize today.” thepointmag.com…”

““The ‘radical’ task before us is not to hope that something resembling our concepts & practices will reemerge in the distant future; it is to do whatever remains in our power to preserve them in the present.” A lovely essay re: what we can learn from the Cr…”

“Much Ado About Consciousness/Nothing “WhenAI models express behavior that astonishes the scientists who created them, it isn’t consciousness that should be the top concern—it’s the inability of those scientists to control them, & the willingness of their bo…”

“I agree w/ @stevenlevy.bsky.social that a focus on AI sentience may miss the point that we should care more about what they do than why they do it. Harm doesn’t care about motives. Alas, he also writes: “AI models often lie about what they’re thinking. (Jus…”

““As Golumbia makes clear over & over throughout Cyberlibertarianism: the problem with digital technology is not that it has been captured by the right-wing, the problem with digital technology is that it is inherently right-wing.” With AI, understanding thi…”

“Precisely! Open =/= ethical. Have you seen this marvelous essay by @tante.cc? “LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation & subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one ‘liberate’ that? What’s the case for open source violence?””

“There’s an understandable inclination to think that AI might be useful in some contexts, just not the one that you are involved in, or know anything about. I fear it happens to everyone. It happened to me, until corrected by @emilymbender.bsky.social I wrot…”

“🙏🏽💙 Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics”

“This by @garymarcus.bsky.social closely tracks my own views. And huge 🙏🏽 to @angierasmussen.bsky.social for so clearly articulating the importance of addressing non-theoretical AI harms. People love to talk about dramatic existential risks & ignore present,…”

“IRONY ALERT “Huang urged the G20 to avoid writing regulations for AI that focus on ‘theoretical harms,’ & instead develop rules governing real-world problems connected to the technology.” “Real-world problems” like unauthorized use of creative works to trai…”