Tim O'Brien

@timobrien
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Technology, law, and policy | Affiliate Associate Professor, UW Evans School | Lecturer, INSEAD | Purdue, Kellogg, UW School of Law | Former Microsoft
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Tim O'BrienOct 16, 2023

Nothing to see here, just Marc Andreessen, one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in AI, framing trust, safety, ethics, and risk management collectively as "The Enemy".

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.

Andreessen Horowitz
Tim O'BrienAug 14, 2023
The tech industry generally makes an art form of ignoring storylines & narratives that 'get in the way' of how it views progress & innovation, but it never ignores what's at the top of Techmeme. Congrats & kudos to @lorenaoneil for giving voice to the most accomplished responsible-tech researchers & advocates that (unfortunately) too many tech ppl had never heard of, until now. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

Rolling Stone
Tim O'BrienMar 3, 2023

A team in Osaka uses #stablediffusion to "re-construct" images from human brain activity. Crazy. https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/

Lots to unpack here, but privacy is top of mind, as I wrote about a year ago. I thought it would be brain implants, but intrusion is intrusion, regardless of means. New frontiers ... https://timobrien.substack.com/p/privacy-intrusion-gets-a-new-look

Stable Diffusion with Brain Activity

Accepted at CVPR 2023 Yu Takagi* 1,2 , Shinji Nishimoto 1,2 1. Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan 2. CiNet, NICT, Japan

Tim O'BrienDec 8, 2022
<sigh> I've put this off long enough ... I'm going in.
Tim O'BrienNov 11, 2022

Good to see the FTC giving greater consideration to non-price effects in merger reviews of data-intensive firms & sectors (which in 2022 is pretty much all of them)

h/t @hartzog on twtr