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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)

"@Riedl, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that existential threats are “often reported as fact,” which he added “goes a long way to normalizing, through repetition, the belief that only scenarios that endanger civilization as a whole matter and that other harms are not happening or are not of consequence.”"

https://venturebeat.com/ai/doomer-advisor-joins-musks-xai-the-4th-top-research-lab-focused-on-ai-apocalypse/

Reblog via danah boyd

Can you help me identify everyday examples of mundane low-stakes data modeling failures. We've seen a lot of discussions of supply chain failures and labor shortages. But what about when companies are clearly getting their modeling wrong? (And do they care?) Here's some context and examples that I have to offer: https://medium.com/@zephoria/everyday-mundane-low-stakes-data-modeling-fails-75e1d0554a5c

Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)

⚡️New! Opening up ChatGPT https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.05532

TL;DR #chatgpt is unfit for responsible use in science & education. Open instruction-tuned text generators (LLM + RLHF) are on the rise. But how open are they? We track degrees of openness in this #CUI23 paper & live at https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io

We hope this paper & repository will help more people make mindful choices about tech

work with @andreasliesenfeld and @alianda

Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Hey #MAIHT3k fans! Our next twitch stream (episode 14) is this Friday. Come listen live while @alex and I chat with Dr. Lucy Suchman about AI hype and military and national security — and take apart AI hype coming from none other than Henry Kissinger + Palantir's applications of LLMs to warmaking.

twitch.tv/dair_institute
Friday July 21, 1pm Pacific

#AIhype

Reblog via Alex Hanna

So incredibly excited that we got the one and only Dr. Lucy Suchman to discuss AI and warmaking/mongering on the next #MAIHT3k.

@emilymbender, Dr. Suchman, and I will discuss AI hype and military and national security — and take apart AI hype coming from none other than Henry Kissinger + Palantir's applications of LLMs to warmaking.

https://twitch.tv/dair_institute
Friday July 21, 1pm Pacific

Reblog via Francis Hunger

Open PhD position in Digital Humanities – From Text to Image with AI!

If you are interested in doing research on multimodal and generative AI in the context of art and culture, check this out: https://shorturl.at/dmq27

A 4-year funded position at @UZH_dsi

Reblog via Charles Johnson

It’s probably a good idea to repost this incredibly prophetic cartoon from 2014 at regular intervals because every day I see people who still haven’t fully imbibed its message. Apologies if it’s old hat to you.

The Terrible Sea Lion.

https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark#Sea_lioning

Reblog via Teri Kanefield

Writing this week's blog post hurt my head 😂

What took me a while was to connect the thinking behind the plaintiff's arguments in Missouri v. Biden to what Musk is doing on Twitter.

I kept thinking, "There's a connection here." Then, finally 💡

Good thing there is lots of daylight left and lovely weather because it's time for a walk.

https://terikanefield.com/missouri-v-biden-control-for-the-dominance-of-american-media/

Reblog via Zach Weinersmith

Amazingly, I made this several years ago

Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Have a listen (or read the transcript) and sit for a while with three of the workers who did content moderation for ChatGPT. Thank you @karenhao for this important window into the human impact of this work.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-hidden-workforce-that-helped-filter-violence-and-abuse-out-of-chatgpt/ffc2427f-bdd8-47b7-9a4b-27e7267cf413

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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Recently, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise about fears inspired by fantasies of all-powerful ‘AIs’ going rogue and destroying humanity, and those seeking to illuminate and address actual harms being done in the name of ‘AI’ now and the risks that we see following from increased use of this kind of automation.

I objected strongly to the framing and tried to explain how it was ahistorical. Here is my response in blog form:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f

Reblog via Bread and Circuses

A timely and rather shocking meme, to which I have added #AltText…

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency