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blair@blairaf.com · 2mo ago

I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

AI is nothing but opportunity for the very worst of consultancies. One for the spam folder.

If you are still looking for a (short) piece on violence to include in your syllabi for this fall: www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-new...

"Violence": An Essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Keywords: Politics; Structures; Domination; Racism)

What do we talk about when we talk about violence? In his Doctrine of Law (1797), Immanuel Kant offers in passing an intriguing answer to this question. By differentiating between violentia (from vis,...

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My first single-author paper survived peer review and is now in production >.< Here’s the preprint! zenodo.org/records/8066...

Roo wishes everyone a pleasant Friday

They are panicking about falling behind OpenAI and Anthropic. But I’m not sure the change in strategy will pay off. Worth remembering the success of Chinese AI company DeepSeek was also an emphasis on a scientific rather than commercial culture bsky.app/profile/heta...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Also the culture of the firm values curiosity driven research by top talent

Seeing a shift in rhetoric from “AI will take your job” to “AI will create jobs”? Could it be linked to AI executives wanting to launch historic IPOs?

Democracy Now, please stop platforming existential riskers. They are eugenicists with fantasies of AI grandeur. Meanwhile, Boxtown residents are still dying from xAI data centers.

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 6d ago

Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, a professor at the University of Montreal, says “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity.

I'm a professional.

Just realised (after way too long) “made without MSG” stickers on some food packaging. Still looking for “No GMO” signs. The politics of food packaging, huh.

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that our eldest cat is of the last generation of cats who knew of a world without smartphones.

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

What. “If you automate 90% of the job, then everyone does the 10% of the job. And the 10% kind of expands to be 100% of what people do and kind of 10-times their productivity.” aimagazine.com/news/altman-...

I just had a moment. Thinking about the seemingly slow rise of computer ethics and STS in the second half of the 20th century, and the accelerating backlash against AI we are living through, the future became weirdly vivid and a lot sooner than I had ever imagined.

Not enough philosophy is being written about those merge games absolutely nobody downloads to their phone

there is nothing better than the movie critiques of experienced professionals that are intently focusing on things they would have done differently m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ej...

Limited Perspectives Collection on Letterman, 1982-84

YouTube video by Don Giller

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What did you want them to do? Open a public library? Resell them on Ebay? Condition: Used – scanned for AI training

Hard deadline of 18th November for absolutely everything

I get that having cats isn’t the same as having human children but

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Geneva’s year-round series of events is indicative of the privilege required to host multinational, multi-stakeholder events.

There is no series of “global AI summits”; they’re just national AI summits marketed internationally.

Openly bragging about committing cyber crimes and justifying it by *checks notes* being too incompetent to sandbox or air-gap your systems.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

Winding down after winding up the Winding Down Company. Let’s be honest, it was a wind-up of a project.

Greeted by the densest fog ever upon landing in Unama’ki. Now to find the mains, as I’m apparently going to have to shut the airport for the night.

Flying into Canada with my PR card for the first time today. Feels like an oddly big deal. Like, even the authorities can see me as “going home.” I’ll be high-fiving everybody at the airport.

Nathan Grant (Kevin McGarry): Maintain Professional Distance

Alt: A mountie: Maintain a professional distance

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Soup: sauce promoted, gravy capsised from its boat, or liquid salad. #haiku #Poem  #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry #microverse #mimimal #soupness

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