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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Remember folks, they're all about "ethics" and "safety" this money is just the cost of bringing us utopia through beneficial "artificial general intelligence" and preventing the bad guys from creating the machine devil that will kill us all.
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
"Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and black boxes are woven into the stories they tell." techpolicy.press/the-black-b…
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
"Anthropic’s Roman moment is a masterclass in soft-power repositioning. By embedding itself in the Vatican’s moral architecture at the precise moment it is under fire from Washington, the company is doing several things simultaneously:"
decode39.com/14852/anthropic…
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Students are booing out of touch execs selling this shit, here in the real world, and the effective altruists say we’re about to hit utopia not only because of the impending machine god, but also their billionaires who’re about to get rich from OpenAI & Anthropic IPOs saving the world with their money 🙄
May 19
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy
Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history.
How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today?
I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it.
This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it.
(Link to full post in reply)
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
May 11
The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta last night.
The documentary shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. The decimation of Gaza’s healthcare system including the detention of healthcare workers is central to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Amnesty awarded Gaza: Doctors Under Attack at the Amnesty Media Awards last week. The work of everyone involved in making this documentary and fighting for it to be broadcast shows the importance of journalists willing to speak truth to power.
#Bafta #Baftas
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
May 11
Feliz de publicar un libro nuevo, "La frontera del azar" junto a la Editorial JANDE. El cuál recoge el trabajo de todos estos años como periodista, investigador y activista antirracista. Disponible en español y catalán. editorialjande.com/es/produc…
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Apr 29
RT @G_Pisarello: ¿Qué hace el Ministerio de Defensa contratando con Palantir?
¿Nadie advirtió el peligro de hacer adjudicaciones millonar…
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis.
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
I'll also note how the TESCREAL framing of "alignment" is basically marketing for the companies, which is why it is pushed by the same funders of the AI companies in the name of "AI safety."
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
JUST IN: Apple Patent Reveals Earbuds Designed to Monitor Brain Activity. Full patent in comments.
Apple has filed patent US20230225659A1 describing earbuds capable of measuring biosignals from inside and around the ear, including electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor electrical brain activity, along with other signals like muscle movement, eye movement, and heart rate. The patent explains that placing electrodes in or near the outer ear allows more accurate readings with less visibility and device movement, raising concerns about how much data these devices could collect and how powerful this technology could become.
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
For those interested I previously wrote about how Anthropic and others co-opt safety and defense terminology to take over the arbitration of risk determinations, thus subverting democratic processes.
arxiv.org/abs/2504.15088
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Apr 15
.@CCOO convoca huelga indefinida en las Oficinas de Extranjería precisamente cuando va a iniciarse el proceso de regularización de personas inmigrantes.
Aunque nadie discute el derecho a la huelga, los dirigentes de ese sindicato harían bien en escuchar a Tatiana Romero en .@ElTablero_TV 👇🏼
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Apr 14
Tesla’s Giga Texas water use jumped more than 200 million gallons — by about 60% — in two years, as massive chip plant proposal raises concerns about Austin’s strained supply. bit.ly/47WI3eD
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Apr 9
You should be aware that The Atlantic has a deal with OpenAI when you read any of its news stories about "the future of AI".
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Responses to this are irking. Nuclear and air traffic operators rely on human factors studies to understand fatigue and limitations in being able to operate complex systems safely. We don't label plants and aviation "super intelligent" as a result and advocate to remove humans.
Apr 2
"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.
I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.
There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
A sentence you don't want to read as an expert in nuclear safety and AI
"Internal DOE documents arguing for changing dose rules cite a report produced at the INL, which was compiled with the help of the AI assistant Claude."
Claude shouldn't be anywhere near dosage determinations
Apr 4
A DOGE staffer convened a meeting with Department of Energy officials to discuss the future of nuclear power and downplayed the risk of radiation exposure at nuclear test sites:
“They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there.”
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And ALL EU countries abstained (current moral poster child Spain included) due to „suggestions of a retroactive application of international rules which was non-existent at the time and claims for reparations,which is incompatible with established principles of international law“
Mar 26
The UN General Assembly has adopted a Ghana-led resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity,” passing despite opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, and European countries.
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