How to Survive AI
If you look at the world, basically after the industrial revolution we could set a certain course for the information age, or AI age. We are moving so fast in so-called technology because that generates a huge profit and can dominate in many ways for profit making. Humanity is the fast-deteriorating area, much worse than the so-called environment... See more
Alain Elkann • Ai Weiwei
All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential “junior” operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ.
Lavender was developed by the... See more
Lavender was developed by the... See more
Harry Davies • ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
I actually think there is far too little panic (or better yet, apprehension) about AI. I even see many Christian friends speak enthusiastically about it as a “helpful tool” rather than an alien agent. I first noticed about 10 years ago that one way to get a machine to pass the Turing Test is to make it more human-like, but perhaps the easier method... See more
John Halbigsubstack.com
When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
Jack Stilgoex.comif these AI systems ever become self-aware and power-hungry, like people such as Geoffrey Hinton believe to be a possible scenario, they’ll know exactly what to do when they risk being shut off. The blueprint is readily available. It turns out all you need to do is to social engineer large swaths of the population into parasocial relationships and... See more
We have a chance to do work we’re proud of, and to do it for people who care. And maybe we can do it in a way that will lead them to tell the others. Traffic from an algorithm isn’t the point, it’s a random bonus.
No sense being a puppet, especially if you can’t be sure who is pulling the strings or why.