OpenAI only wants the regulation that it proposes. Unsurprisingly

https://qz.com/chatgpt-openai-sam-altman-eu-rules-ai-act-1850473713

Excited to announce that I’m joining @bkc as. #responsibleai AI fellow! I’ll be working on issues of AI governance.

I’m enthusiastic to be on the outside of industry; there’s a moment now considering Musk and Twitter, tech layoffs, generative AI as well as 2023 being the year we get algorithmic accountability laws (#dsa #EUAIAct)

https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-01/announcing-dr-rumman-chowdhury-berkman-klein-center-responsible-ai-fellow

The "deep lesson" has to do with how we collectively design information access systems, and our choices in this moment. Do we lean in to #AIhype or do we level up information hygiene? Do we accept inevitability narratives about centralized control of info systems, or do we resist?

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Should you be short of evidence of #corporate cynicism, then this story from @TheGuardian on #Exxon's well-founded & researched prediction of the #climatecrisis will be a welcome bit of ammunition for your suspicion of our current model of #capitalism which centres & privileges the interest of #corporations!

While I'm a reformist who thinks capitalism can be done better, I'll admit this sort of evidence does nothing to help my case!_
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research?utm_term=63c1006180b8d5a478cf5c7f433f9306&utm_campaign=FirstEdition&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=firstedition_email

New blog post about diffusion language models: https://benanne.github.io/2023/01/09/diffusion-language.html

Diffusion models have completely taken over generative modelling of perceptual signals -- why is autoregression still the name of the game for language modelling? And can we do anything about that?

There’s a lot of #AI #responsibleai #ethicalai newsletters out there, but one of my favorites has been @jiahao ‘s - an excellent and fact-based overview of what’s going on:

https://raillc.substack.com/p/2023-01

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

CFP: Digital Twins & Doubles: Data of Cooperation.

Venue: University of Siegen, July 17-19, 2023.

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2023.

Details: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/call-for-contribution-international-conference-digital-twins-doubles-data-of-cooperation/

#mediastudies, #digitaltwins