They’re more afraid of shoddy software than robots going rogue, and say the argument that AI is going to wipe out humanity is built on a “tower of fallacies.”

The technology, as it’s currently imagined, promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative imaginable?

A guide to AI ethics, including responsible design and implementation of AI systems in the public sector

On reflecting on how much time I spend working to deflate and counteract AI hype, and how much of that ends up as Twitter threads, I…

AI is not “some mysterious, magical, autonomous being,” one critic said.

Another tweet thread turned into a blog post, to keep it all in one place, reacting to this tweet/clip from CBS 60 Minutes (as flagged by…

A toolkit for teams building human-centered AI products.

Conscious machines are staples of science fiction that are often taken for granted as articles of future fact, but they are not possible.

Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what’s really happening under the hood?

This volume deals with on human-centered machine learning, explainable AI, ethics, law, argumentation and social simulation.

Clearview AI has been used by the police nearly a million times in the US, it tells the BBC.

Linguistics professor Emily M. Bender and DAIR Director of Research Alex Hanna take AI hype down a peg in this series, poking holes in the cottage industry that is artificial intelligence.

Lots of people are talking about Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute right now. So I thought I'd put together a thread about Yudkowsky for the general public and journalists (such as those at @TIME). I hope this is useful. 🧵— Émile P. Torres (they/them) (@xriskology) April 1, 2023

SUPPORT ON PATREON: http://patreon.com/adamconoverSEE ME LIVE ON TOUR: http://adamconover.net/tourdatesVISIT USAFACTS: https://bit.ly/3TZyUK3The real risk of...

The Tesla CEO called for a pause in chatbot development. But he’s pushing something much more dangerous.

This article explores the current differences between human and machine learning, from an artist’s perspective. This post is an adaptation from a personal twitter thread from Nov.28th, 2022

Below is a lightly edited version of the tweet/toot thread I put together in the evening of Tuesday March 28, in reaction to the open…

Do loose prompts* sink ships? Exploring the cyber security issues of ChatGPT and LLMs.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy stirred the AI researcher hornets’ nest this week by repeating a number of ill-informed, and increasingly...

OpenAI has confirmed a ChatGPT data breach as a security firm reported seeing the use of a component affected by an exploited vulnerability.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy should have kept this one in the drafts.

An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.

Imagining the first "I vow never to use #AI to draft things I write or say to you" vows... #ethics #chatbots https://t.co/b5nppvnHQ9— Internet Ethics (@IEthics) March 27, 2023

archived 24 Mar 2023 22:33:58 UTC

Artificial General Intelligence and White Supremacy

Candace Nelson Sweet Success

If you've logged on to any social media app this week, you've probably seen pictures of your friends, but re-imagined as fairy princesses, animé characters, or celestial beings.

How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence

Australian employer, business tech and research groups have formed an alliance to tackle responsible AI by developing best practice guidance, tools and training for Australian companies using the high-risk technology. The Responsible AI Network to be launched Thursday includes the industry groups alongside standards, ethics and research organisations. No consumer…