Bec Johnson

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PhD in AI ethics @Sydney_Uni Student researcher @GoogleResearch (Responsible AI)
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Hey all!
Want to know what's happening in the Australian AI regulatory landscape?

I just published a summary of the two new govt reports, with some opinions of course!

AUSTRALIA'S AI ACID TEST

https://link.medium.com/u1TohW0BjAb

I'm organising a conference on ethics and impacts around LLMs and GAIs and it is looking EPIC.

https://chatllm23.com/

28 April, 9am-5pm AEST (Sydney, Australia).

Stellar line-up of speakers. No hype, it's legit epic: check out website for snapshot.

IRL attendance sold out, but individual requests for a spot considered.

👀 website for webinar 🔗

Huge thank you to our guest speakers for their time and involvement inc @mmitchell_ai
@giadap
@tw
@thegradient
Please tag if you're a speaker.

ChatLLM23

Symposium on large language models and generative AI technologies.

Oof. #ChatGPT treats different religions with different amounts of deference

from: https://twitter.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1613186403848060928

I can just see a whole gaggle of tech bros commuting to the office in SF donning these.
“Much of the moral panic over “cancel culture” – which animated Musk to buy Twitter in the first place – is a reaction to the fact that traditionally marginalized groups gained technological means to affect the political debate.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent
Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent

Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top

The Guardian
Merry Christmas from Ocean Grove, Australia!
May your 2023 be filled with the breeze on your face and nice grass to roll on!

Tech giants are now spending hundreds of millions to systematically shape policy across the world, including donations and funding to policymakers, civil society orgs, media orgs and academia.

A decade ago, this may not have been clear to everyone. Now it really should be.

Looks like the WSJ is going all in on moving to Mastodon, with this little tutorial available without a paywall.
https://www.wsj.com/story/how-to-use-mastodon-the-social-media-platform-blocked-by-elon-musks-twitter-7751455f
How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter

Mastodon could be the future of social media—if you can figure it out

Wall Street Journal

Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!

Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.

You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg

Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!

#introduction

Mastodon

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