The pursuit of 'superintelligence' is a project that should immediately lead people to question the motives of the techno-optimists and their political objectives, writes Cole Donovan. Their political project has clear goals; their emerging technology does not.
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#TeslaTakeDown protest in Manhattan, one of close to 50 such events taking place across the country. Protesters chanted "Stop the Coup" and "Boycott Tesla."
Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lost
The American Republic feels fragile.
I spoke to White House OSTP director Dr. Arati Prabhakar about AI and questions regarding its impact on labor. I shared the example of concerns echoed by National Nurses United policy expert Hannah Baumann, who spoke of nurses being relegated to gig workers managed by automated systems amidst cost cutting at hospitals. Dr. Prabhakar said we have serious choices to make about how we deploy this technology:
Your own devices will give the next Cambridge Analytica far more power to influence your vote
Greater connectivity, more data, and auto-generated content will make today’s manipulation techniques look primitive.
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Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh--, what the f---?”
The music legend expressed his concerns during a Milken Institute panel with Larry Jackson.
Steven Goffman on Twitter
“Turns out Twitter can, in fact, be real life.”
Musk on a collision course with EU regulators... will the FTC make a move in the US? If the authority of these governments is to mean anything, they must act against this obvious deviant.
https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2EU and US turn up the heat on Elon Musk over Twitter
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