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pwills Feb 18, 2025

I wrote a paper 📄, that's up on SSRN!

It's on “Supervising Frontier AI Developers”.

Like the title suggests, it argues that government supervision - where public servants have broad information-gathering powers and discretionary authority - offers the best approach to regulating frontier AI development, and perhaps one of the only way of mitigating certain threats.

Here's a summary at the GovAI blog: https://www.governance.ai/post/the-case-for-supervising-frontier-ai-developers

And here's the full piece: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5122871

#lawfedi #ai

The Case for Supervising Frontier AI Developers | GovAI Blog

Improvements in the capabilities of frontier AI systems present policymakers with a classic challenge: how to preserve the benefits of innovation while mitigating attendant risks. Certain...

pwills Jan 2, 2024

Frank Pasquale Jan 2, 2024

“To the best of my knowledge, no commercially available large language models have strong defenses to protect privacy,” said Dr. Prateek Mittal, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University.
Dr. Mittal said that A.I. companies were not able to guarantee that these models had not learned sensitive information. “I think that presents a huge risk,” he said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/22/technology/openai-chatgpt-privacy-exploit.html

Personal Information Exploit With OpenAI’s ChatGPT Model Raises Privacy Concerns

Researchers at Indiana University used ChatGPT’s model to extract contact information for more than 30 New York Times employees.

The New York Times

pwills Dec 28, 2023

Frederik Borgesius Dec 20, 2023

'Bing Chat, the AI-driven chatbot on Microsoft’s search engine Bing, makes up false scandals about real politicians and invents polling numbers... @algorithmwatch and AI Forensics... tested if the chatbot would provide factual answers when prompted about the Bavarian, Hessian, and Swiss elections that took place in October 2023.'
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/study-microsofts-bing-chat/ #tech #ai #chatgpt #law #politics

AI Chatbot produces misinformation about elections - AlgorithmWatch

Bing Chat, the AI-driven chatbot on Microsoft’s search engine Bing, makes up false scandals about real politicians and invents polling numbers. Microsoft seems unable or unwilling to fix the problem. These findings are based on a joint investigation by AlgorithmWatch and AI Forensics, the final report of which has been published today. We tested if the chatbot would provide factual answers when prompted about the Bavarian, Hessian, and Swiss elections that took place in October 2023.

AlgorithmWatch

pwills Dec 19, 2023

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TygerKrash Dec 19, 2023

@Tupp_ed Naomi Noviks scholomance series is great , I guess you'd call em YA novels pitched for a slightly older teen? It's got a magical school , lots of spell details, magical creatures etc, complete lack of chocolate frogs. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/28a4d1b0-2a64-45a4-bf0d-b7b565272080

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an...

pwills Dec 19, 2023

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Simon McGarr Dec 19, 2023

Oh, I nearly forgot

This year, and every year, I have two pieces of children’s narrative I return to. Both use the week leading up to Christmas as their framing device. Both are filled with the buried rivers of Britain’s myths.

The more profound one is The Dark Is Rising, part of the book series of the same name.

pwills Dec 19, 2023

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Simon McGarr Dec 19, 2023

I do this list every year around the end of December, just in case it is helpful to people who want choices and variety in their magical fantasy children’s book shopping.

I usually add extra each time, based on suggestions in replies, so if you have a favourite I’ve missed, let me know.

pwills Dec 19, 2023

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Simon McGarr Dec 19, 2023

Never mind ‘for Children’, everyone should read Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard Of Earthsea.

A towering piece of imaginative art standing as the stylistic opposite and artistic equal of Diana Wynne Jones’ work.

Also, exciting wizard school story!

pwills Dec 12, 2023

Ann Lipton Dec 12, 2023

Judge Charles Breyer partially sustained Section 10(b) securities fraud claims against Elon Musk, alleging that his accusations about Twitter's spam counts when he was trying to escape the deal were either intentionally or recklessly misleading:
Pampena v. Musk 3:22-cv-05937

pwills Dec 10, 2023

Philip N Cohen Dec 9, 2023

Wow, Zotero & Retraction Watch just stopped me from citing a retracted paper that had been hanging around in my bibliography. How great is that?
#academia

pwills Dec 10, 2023

David Colarusso Dec 9, 2023

Among the positive byproducts of playing D&D with my kids is the fact that they now accept a D20 (20-sided dice) as the arbiter of disputes and as a means to make tough choices. FWIW, we use the same mechanics as choosing combat order (i.e., make a roll for each “option” and the one with the highest roll “wins”). 🎲🎲

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