A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. Board member, EFF. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
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AI is often thought of as a black box -- there's no ready way to figure out what's going on inside. That's changing a little, in some eye-opening ways. In this essay I discuss how some researchers are gleaning what "beliefs" models are forming about their human interlocutors as they converse, and how those beliefs correlate to what the models say and how they say it. There are lots of policy implications!
On Sep 12 the Applied Social Media Lab (where I work) is hosting “Beyond Discourse Dumpster Fires: Strategies and Tools for Better Online Civil Space" to explore new ideas for healthier and more satisfying online communication.
I'm particularly excited to hear from @zephoria!
RSVP here, online via Zoom or (limited) in-person tickets in Cambridge MA: https://brk.mn/discourse
There will also be a recording available afterwards, so those who do not use Zoom can still watch!
I wrote a short piece about agent-based AI, its risks, and what we might do about them. It also serves as a preview of a new book, where I try to offer a picture of how humanity is both gaining power and losing control with the rise of the next wave of technology. More soon -- and thoughts welcome!
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/ai-agents-safety-risks/678864/
#Lifehacking is in pretty bad odor these days, and with good reason: a once-useful catch-all for describing how to make things easier has become a pit of #ProductivityPorn, grifter hustling, and anodyne advice wreathed in superlatives and transformed into SEO-compliant listicles.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/#unfucked-rota
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