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That Was The Week That Was | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM m-cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-ca…

Did you attempt last week to actually read the @whitehouse's AI Executive Order? Well, my students and I did, and it was tough, in part just due to formatting. So here's our gift to you! The AI Exec Order: Human-Readable Edition. #AI #JoeBiden #AIEO docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Interview with me on ChatGPT regulation now published in Chinese Social Sciences Today cssn.cn/skgz/skwyc/202310/t2…

AI regulation: As someone who has worked for years in both "open" and "closed" AI companies, operationalising ethical AI, I'm dismayed by battle lines being drawn between “open” and “closed”. That's not where the battle should be--it's a distraction from what we all agree on. 🧵

I also agree with Gary's remarks, which say similar things to mine but much more concisely.

My remarks on the UK AI Summit Bletchley Declaration

In light of all the extra AI doomerism in the news (likely due in part to the "AI Safety Summit" in the UK this week), I'd like to re-up a couple of resources. First, this response to the "AI Pause" letter: dair-institute.org/blog/lett… >>

Just arrived from the printer: the hardback edition of my new book Writing Beyond Writing. Thanks to Alec Julien for the gorgeous design. Thanks, too, to David Crystal for encouragement and advice. The book goes on sale soon at endangeredalphabets.com.

Will releasing the weights of large language models grant widespread access to pandemic agents? Turns out, yes, probably. 1/5

How can teachers take a human-centred approach to AI? bold.expert/how-can-teachers…

Terrans - Mostly A1/B1 Optimist Cosmists - Mostly C2/B2 (most cosmists online now are not really in the "3" camp) Pessimist Cosmists - Mostly B3-ish? (I live here) Corporatist - Entirely A3 (maybe some B3) Narrow AI-ist - Mostly A2/B2

Hugo de Garis foresaw that, as AGI moved toward reality, the world would be dominated by a war between Terrans and Cosmists.... But what I see in the world right is more like five broad groups, -- TERRANS for real, i.e. folks who want to see tech progress slowed or halted because it's a threat to traditional humanity as they conceive it -- OPTIMIST COSMISTS, i.e. folks who want to see AGI bring us into a radical new domain in which humans can co-exist with posthuman minds, and who figure that if we don't screw up the Singularity stupidly, this is a fairly likely outcome -- PESSIMIST COSMISTS, who would love to see a beautiful future with humans co-existing with radically different/smarter posthuman and AGI minds, but who figure the most likely outcome of ASI is all humans being annihilated and either a paperclip maximizer type debacle or something else less stupid but radically incomprehensible to and irrelevant to humans -- CORPORATISTS, who promote ineffectual and poorly-conceived government/corporate policy measures to supposedly control AGI, while in the meantime wanting to push full-force ahead with development toward AGI within corporate and government labs -- NARROW AI ISTS, who believe current AI tech should be left mostly unregulated and disseminated openly, not because they are optimistic cosmists, but because they figure AGI is still very far off and so stuff like AGI existential risk is still mostly in the domain of SF ... At the moment it seems like the Corporatists and Narrow AI ists are in the majority in the tech sphere. Terrans may well be the majority planet-wide. I don't know if Optimist or Pessimist Cosmists are more common.

OpenAI CEO's Prediction Of AI's 'Superhuman Persuasion' Raises Concerns Of Misinformation - Zenger News zenger.news/2023/10/25/opena…

I'm thrilled to be selected as one of UN's inaugural AI Advisory Body to support the international community’s efforts to govern artificial intelligence.

Wow. I knew @mer__edith was amazing, but this is astonishing anyway. In a few minutes, she demystifies Silicon Valley’s VC culture & pierces the hype around GenAI. This is truly must-watch TV. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/4

AIでおっさんを美少女化。晒していくスタイルのbefore after。元は可愛い動きや表情をそれほどやってない。画像生成が見る人に可愛い印象や画面全体の統一感を作りだしている

Predicting the past with Ithaca deepmind.com/blog/predicting…

We asked AI to create images relating to different countries. The results are full of stereotypes. For example, 99 out of 100 AI image results for “a Mexican person” featured a sombrero or similar hat restofworld.org/2023/ai-imag…