Timnit Gebru (she/her).I wrote this short summary of our @DAIR #NoTechForApartheid event co-hosted with Haymarket Books. I came away from the event thinking that this is even worse than I knew and that we have even more of a responsibility to say #NoTechForApartheid. This is the post: https://dair-institute.org/blog/NoTechForApartheid/
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Ars TechnicaKremlin-backed hackers exploit critical Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA
Microsoft didn't disclose the in-the-wild exploits by Kremlin-backed group until now.
It is truly heartbreaking to hear what is happening to the Eritrean refugees who protested in Germany. They escape unimaginable horror only to face repression at their destination for which they had to give up everything and endure horrible torture to get to. Then you have various German police collaborating with Eritrean regime agents to target these people. People on whom investigations have been opened have their family reunification plans halted.
Paris MarxIn Dune, the Butlerian Jihad destroyed the “intelligent machines” and set the world on a very different technological path. Can we learn from it?
In a bonus #TechWontSaveUs episode, I had a chat with Ed Ongweso Jr and @brianmerchant about Dune and the Luddites.
epicenter.works🏢 Warum Datenschutz gerade bei einer Abgabe für leerstehende Wohnungen ein Hindernis sein soll, ist uns nicht klar. Der Zugriff auf das Zentrale Melderegister ist genau geregelt und in Salzburg & der Steiermark zu diesem Zweck sogar heute schon möglich.https://oe1.orf.at/player/20240318/752817/1710746010300
Is TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state?
Op-ed: In China Inc., it’s a little more complicated than that.
Meredith WhittakerThis Google report is really perplexing. It purports to document cyberattacks post 10/7. But it only covers those against US/Israel. No mention of attacks against Palestine. Even as US/Israel has extremely sophisticated capabilities.
It also doesn't acknowledge let alone justify this narrow focus in the text. No methods section, no reflexivity. It's a very odd document.
https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/tool-of-first-resort-israel-hamas-war-in-cyber/
The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy
You know the military is serious when the guy running the program is nicknamed "Orbit."
Joseph CoxNew: multiple published scientific papers include language that appears to have been generated by AI-tools like ChatGPT. Search for "as of my last knowledge update" on Google Scholar, you get 115 results. It's a phrase used by OpenAI's ChatGPT https://www.404media.co/scientific-journals-are-publishing-papers-with-ai-generated-text/
tante"In this way “AI” is deeply dehumanizing: Making the spaces and opportunities for people to grow and be human smaller and smaller. Applying a straitjacket of past mediocrity to our minds and spirits.
And that is what is being booed: The salespeople of mediocrity who’ve made it their mission to speak lies from power. The lie that only tech can and will save us. The lie that a bit of statistics and colonial, mostly white, mostly western data is gonna create a brilliant future. The lie that we have no choice, no alternatives."
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While the crowd at sxsw2024 booing a sizzle reel of people either promising the beauty of the future "AI" will bring or claiming it to be "without alternative" is funny and went viral for all the right reasons, this event speaks to a deeper shift in perception. #ai #genAI #luddism