SUNDAY SCROLL: A.I. With The Safety Off
Something new to read, watch, look at, listen to and do to #bemorehuman
Hello and happy Sunday. I’m off on holiday next week so am banging this out between deadlines, forgive the brevity but enjoy this week’s scroll through things to read, watch look at, listen to and do to #bemorehuman (or at least be more aware of what isn’t human 👾). Laters, Nx
Read this… OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
According to Wired’s latest scoop, ‘The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups,’
But, it’ll probably fine…right? 😬Read more in ‘OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded’.
Watch this… The A.I. Dilemma
Unsurprisingly I am a fan of Tristan Harris, founder of the Centre for Humane Technology who came to prominence in the documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’ about the harms social media is doing to society. He has now turned his attention to A.I. and released this presentation from a private gathering in San Francisco on March 9th, 2023 with leading technologists and decision-makers who have the ability to influence the future of LLMs. It’s not brief but it is well worth your time.
Look at this… Spot the difference with A.I.
For those that still think they are too smart to be fooled by A.I. content, consider that it is not always used to generate new content but enhance existing content in subtle ways that undermine our experience of reality, as this TikToker demonstrates.
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Listen to this… The Guardian’s ‘Black Box’ podcast
The Guardian has launched an amazing podcast about the emerging impacts of A.I. on humanity. The first episode is a backgrounder so is a bit slow but from the second episode the pace accelerates with journo Michael Safi documenting the era when people first made contact with A.I. a.k.a. NOW!
Do this… Support legitimate journalism.
As the tidal wave of A.I. generated content begins to break over the Internet one of the best things you can do, if you have the means, is to pay for high quality, deeply researched and fact-checked content from legitimate news outlets.
The news media hasn’t covered itself in glory over the last few years, least of all in the UK where tabloids hacked the phones of celebrities and a even murder victim. But, most journalists really do believe in finding the truth and holding power to account. That power does not just belong to governments but, increasingly, the tiny group of millionaires and billionaires that own the tech that runs our entire lives.
If you don’t want to fall victim to the harms of technology then support the journalists and publications keeping them, and the news, honest.