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Multiple readings Russia drones autonomous ai kill ukraine war Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Agents & robotics Signal 10d ago
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Russia drones autonomous ai kill ukraine war

11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Justin Hendrix
“"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."” evidence ↗
11 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Atoosa Kasirzadeh Spiros Margaris Alejandra Caraballo Frank Pasquale Social Media Lab Samuel Bendett Jeffrey Vagle +3
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
⚡ 38 h early
DAIR whose categories whose AI essay

Whose Categories? Whose AI?

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced …” evidence ↗
4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Milagros Miceli Dr Zena Assaad

“"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced …”

“"The villagers are confronting a standard order of operations: the system arrives first, the problem is expected to arrange itself around the system, and the knowledge needed to define both is settled in another hemisphere." dair-institute.org/blog/whose-c...”

Primary source dair-institute.org ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

We Have Always Been Action TheoristsToward

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Dr Zena Assaad

“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...”

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Eryk Salvaggio: Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Eryk Salvaggio: Engages significantly with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social et al’s “Again Theory,” which I’ve often been looking at myself this year critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/a...
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Yes, I just read it with interest (as they say).
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