Open Letter to Students

'I don’t want to talk about the way that the AI industry abuses workers, hordes resources, manipulates markets and elections, controls policymakers, steals from artists, violates civil and human rights laws, colludes with war criminals, exploits poor and vulnerable people, implements mass surveillance, or lies to customers, Congress, its own shareholders and members of the public. If I talk about those things, some of you might still say to yourselves “yeah but that’s capitalism right? That’s nothing new. That’s business. That’s the price of ‘innovation.’”'

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https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-georgetown-students-in-response-to-recent-announcements-about-generative-ai-8869dcd523ef

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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'I want to talk about the way that the survival of the AI industry depends upon you, the generation coming of age right now, agreeing with them that you have essentially no say in your own future...One piece of evidence that they view your disempowerment as necessary for their survival is that their entire messaging strategy is to try to persuade you that there is nothing you can do but submit to their domination'