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America’s R&D Reckoning
How to kill a golden goose
Jordan Schneider
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/science-strategy-and-national-survival
America’s R&D Reckoning

How to kill a golden goose

ChinaTalk
catastrophic unlearning...

Unlearning in AI is quite a tricky conundrum.  we really ought to do it, because  1/ we might be asked by a patient to remove their medical ...

catastrophic unlearning...

Unlearning in AI is quite a tricky conundrum.  we really ought to do it, because  1/ we might be asked by a patient to remove their medical ...

Aladin El-Mafaalani hat lange positiv auf die Integration in Deutschland geblickt. Nun sagt er: Wenn sich Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik nicht ändern, geht es bergab. https://taz.de/Soziologe-El-Mafaalani-ueber-Integration/!5968033/
Soziologe El-Mafaalani über Integration: „Die Infrastruktur bröckelt“

Aladin El-Mafaalani hat lange positiv auf die Integration in Deutschland geblickt. Nun sagt er: Wenn sich Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik nicht ändern, geht es bergab.

Robert Habeck sagte, was immer wieder gesagt werden muss und immer wieder gesagt wird. Er hätte aber auch ansprechen müssen, was gerade abgesagt wird. https://taz.de/Rede-zur-Staatsraeson/!5967949/
Rede zur Staatsräson: Heiland Habeck. Echt jetzt?

Robert Habeck sagte, was immer wieder gesagt werden muss und immer wieder gesagt wird. Er hätte aber auch ansprechen müssen, was gerade abgesagt wird.

Worth adding that 2913 children were killed by the Israeli military in October alone....
German Vice Chancellor uses selective language in his narration of the war and implies sanctions for those speaking out on war crimes committed https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Videos/2023-some/231101-israel-und-antisemitismus/video.html. My response here https://melllax.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/10/27/German-Vice-Chancellor-Speaking-On-Israel-Hamas-Conflict.html
Zu Israel und Antisemitismus

@tforcworc - and this is exactly why I so very much would like my colleagues from other maths schools to hear your stand point on AI - I see a risk of enthusiasm for LLM driving education fully into the ground ...

Don't let US spy tech Palantir get their hands on our sensitive health data. Resist the proposed NHS Federated Data Platform contract in the UK before it's too late.

Sign the Foxglove petition to Stop Palantir's NHS Data Takeover!

#dataprotection #surveillance #ukpolitics

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/palantir-last-chance-petition/

UK Health Secretary Victoria Atkins: Stop Palantir’s NHS data takeover

Urgent - the Palantir NHS data deal is a huge threat to the NHS, but it still hasn’t been signed, and there are reports that the government is now wavering. This is our chance to get it dropped - sign the petition to the health minister now

Foxglove

The guest-list for the #AISummit shows "whose voices the government thinks matter and what harms they actually care about."

Without civil society representation, #BigTech is free to influence policy towards commercial interests over our digital rights with a "vested interest in punting the discussions about #AI risks and harms to the theoretical future rather than looking at risks that are happening here and now."

🗣️ ORG's @abigail

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/23/transparency-seems-to-die-a-death-at-the-governments-ai-summit/

Transparency Seems to Die a Death at the Government's AI Summit – Byline Times

Why won't the Government tell the public who's attending – and who's being left out in the cold?

Byline Times