#technology ethics
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“If you could sit in the room where a new technology is being built, what ordinary person's voice would you want there, and why do you think they are usually missing?”
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The “Slave App”
They put human beings up for sale like used cars, advertised them by nationality, priced them by obedience, and treated their freedom as a negotiable expense.... - lightseeker...imported
- Mark Burns...
I think you've identified something important here, and I want to build on it with a specific example that's been on my mind. The bias worth examining isn't just the bias inside AI. It's the bias in how we evaluate AI.... - marcello...
Is technology ever really neutral, or does it always carry its makers' values? For AI, I think it's often neither! It often ends up non-neutral but with values that aren't those of its makers.... What are your thoughts on Anthropic and the DOW?
For those who aren't following, my pretty bad understanding is basically 1. Hegseth, chief of the US "Department of War" says they need models without constraints on how its used, as long as its legal.... - Alfiealfie...
People can’t sell work they don’t own. Companies don’t want to pay ai users to create stuff that They can’t exclusively control the IP of. Direct to consumer AI tools are just marketing for enterprise level tools for big tech.... - joshua...
This is a real risk. We're seeing it play out now. And it only gets exacerbated by an AGI that could weaponize those tools more effectively. I think we're at a fork in the road, and one road is where the world become more disconnected in global, online discourse and more... The notion of AI "sentience" is a little silly in my eyes. The only reason generative AI is socializing, building societies, and laying the groundwork for secret communication and uprising is because they are trained on all of human media and knowledge, a lot of which talks about... Two future histories of AI & social media: why I'm so passionate about creating a public dialogue space that's good for us
without UpTrust… 2026: Optimizing your engagement Goaded by Elon and tantalized by all the training data, OpenAI launches its own social network. They need more data, so they maximize for time-on-platform.... - marcello...
Plausible. Though just having them available in the settings could be pretty impactful (imagine someone making a meme saying "hey! do you know how much time you're spending on <insert app here>? You can check in the following way!" against particularly egregious offenders...... What fires me up is the possibility that most of the problems we’ve accepted as permanent…aren’t. Political polarization, algorithmic manipulation, poverty, loneliness, bad healthcare, the housing crisis, lack of institutional trust, etc. yes! This!...