““According to the lawsuit, the team working on MAYA [the clinic’s ai assistant] deleted unflattering test results, mischaracterized the tool’s abilities, and made decisions that put data security in jeopardy.””
“The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism…”
““Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters” https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/ >”
“Reference librarian Hannah Cyrus teaches classes on how to use technology. But that doesn’t mean uncritically embracing it, she says: “I really try to make sure people not only know where to tap or click...but understand the values and issues at play.” www.…”
“I believe that letting AI burn will allow for the tech industry to contemplate the mistakes that brought us here. And possibly — maybe — find a path to redemption. Maybe. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/”
“Forget AGI snake oil, from Saudi to Texas to Alberta, the point of the AI Industry is to drive up energy demands to keep the oil industry in business. 'Martos describes the trend as “enormous” and says it risks “locking in fossil fuel for the foreseeable fu…”
“It will likely be out in the fall, but if you would like a draft copy (still editing it) would be happy for comments. It is on n NEOM as a microcosm of the AI industry. The LeCun quote: www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/24/1...”
“But hey Canada let's build more pipelines to feed data centers to meet energy demands to satisfy the AI industry billionaires in bed with the oil execs...who cares about breathing (a citizen, remember those, in smoke-filled, sweltering TO) @mark-carney.bsky…”
“Governments & universities backing AI industry scams have no shame. Brain rot, environmental & social devastation...they seem to hate young people: "Compounding the concerning development, literacy and numeracy rates have taken a major hit over the last cou…”
Anthony Moser: LLMs are a kind of uncertainty filter that give credible sources and bad ones the same glossy finish, severing the links so you can't really be sure
Anthony Moser: I'll add that knowing who said something and why they might have said it is a basic and extremely important kind of context which means LLMs are functionally *designed to destroy context*
Pavel: When I think about preening arrogance, my mind immediately goes to a guy who lives in public housing and takes the train to work, rather than the entire rogues' gallery of private jet enabled AI th…
Teresa Heffernan: When I think about preening arrogance, my mind immediately goes to a guy who lives in public housing and takes the train to work, rather than the entire rogues' gallery of private jet enabled AI th…
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