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Gebru Bender AI war risk essay

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Timnit Gebru, Eryk Salvaggio, The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to hum…” evidence ↗
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How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to hum…”

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.…”

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Emily M. Bender: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Luke Stark: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Emily M. Bender: Yes we mention this in the article.
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Guided inquiry approach to students co designing

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Rosamunde Van Brakel
“We are discussing this one tomorrow www.emerald.com/aiie/article... and I already got the students reading about a general critique of AI in education by @olivia.science et al for the first lecture: static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15...” evidence ↗
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“We are discussing this one tomorrow www.emerald.com/aiie/article... and I already got the students reading about a general critique of AI in education by @olivia.science et al for the first lecture: static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15...”

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Rosamunde Van Brakel: Tomorrow I will teach my 2nd lecture of the year for my course Legal, Ethical & Social Issues of AI! For the evaluation, apart from the exam, students will need to write a short paper describing an…
Rosamunde Van Brakel: I have decided to co-create the gen-AI policy for the assignment together with the students. In prepration for this romorrow we will discuss a US study which did exactly this. It will also be inter…
Rosamunde Van Brakel: last week we discussed if AI is going to kill us all. And the students were very engaged in this discussion and it made clear how important it is to keep on emphasising the importance of science, p…
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