European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools
https://awful.systems/post/7322718
European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools - awful.systems
> Data privacy and AI services have not been the greatest of bedfellows. Studies
have shown that employees regularly leak company secrets via assistants, and
on-device AI services are a focus of vendors amid concerns about exactly what is
being sent to the cloud. > The thought of confidential data being sent to an
unknown location in the cloud to generate a helpful summary has clearly worried
lawmakers, which is why there is a blanket ban. However, the issue has less
relevance if the process occurs on the device itself.
I don't know. With these weapons...
https://awful.systems/post/5932009
I don't know. With these weapons... - awful.systems
> Kyle Reese meme from Terminator (1984) > Listen. And understand. That LLM is
out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t
feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until
they run out of money.
No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says
https://awful.systems/post/5568817
No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says - awful.systems
> Yudkowsky and Soares have a number of policy prescriptions, all of them
basically nonsense. […] They say it should be illegal to own more than eight of
the top 2024-era GPUs without submitting to nuclear-style monitoring by an
international body.[…] nations must be prepared to enforce these restrictions by
bombing unregistered data centres, even if this risks nuclear war, “because
datacenters can kill more people than nuclear weapons” (emphasis theirs). > Take
a deep breath. How did we get here? For me, this is all a form of Pascal’s
wager. […] > Frankly, I don’t understand how anyone can go through their days
thinking like this. People alive today matter. We have wants and worries.
Billions of us are threatened by climate change, a subject that goes essentially
unmentioned in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Let’s consign
superintelligent AI to science fiction, where it belongs, and devote our
energies to solving the problems of science fact here today.
