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Multiple readings LawZero | Home Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Accelerating Policy & governance Development 10h ago
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AI local laws database built

LawZero | Home

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Teresa Heffernan
“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en” evidence ↗
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Olivia Guest Ethan Zuckerman Hagen Blix Teresa Heffernan
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“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“LawZero (lawzero.org/en) has $300m from the Canadian and German governments to build AI as a global public good, with a focus on building safe, responsible and equitable AI.”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Olivia Guest: Sup dawg, I heard you trust AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can trust AI while you trust AI.
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawz…
Olivia Guest: prob I should sue
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Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 18d ago
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AI global energy emissions footprint

The Global Energy and Emissions Footprint of AI Diffusion

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Teresa Heffernan
“A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; here is a good review of the impacts: eraldkolasi.substack.com/…” evidence ↗
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Teresa Heffernan

“A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; here is a good review of the impacts: eraldkolasi.substack.com/…”

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Danya Glabau: Google released a report/press release either 2 or 3 years ago about this time arguing this that was widely read. I remember specifically arguing with engineering colleagues in a curriculum committ…
Danya Glabau: I don't have the link but engineers are still citing "well Google said ..." to me regularly
Teresa Heffernan: A lot of the 'don't worry about the impacts' comes from the AI industry that pushes this argument on social media platforms they control along with increasingly the media from Bezos to Ellison; her…
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Teresa Heffernan
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“The biggest threat that AI poses to our information ecosystem isn't so-called "hallucinations"; it's intentional large-scale persuasion / manipulation. bsky.app/profile/bmit...” evidence ↗
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র: The biggest threat that AI poses to our information ecosystem isn't so-called "hallucinations"; it's intentional large-scale persuasion / manipulation. bsky.app/profile/bmit...
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly...the AI industry is all about theft, surveillance, and manipulation. Operates the same way as social media platforms: 'According to Meta's own disclosure...You read that right: 93% of time…
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