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Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

Hmmm. I read the Emily Wilson review of Nolan's The Odyssey and not sure what the hubbub is about. Are negative reviews not allowed anymore? Some nuance of her points seems flattened in the criticisms of the review, too.

honestly I think tech / ai companies are using twitter / x _more_ than they were before elon bought it. CEOs and companies are making announcements on there exclusively instead of linking to a press release. it's kind of depressing. it's like they prefer it fascist

Why are people acting like the odyssey was a perfect movie. Did we watch the same movie. Was this Oppenheimer all over again

Talking like this this is not preparing readers for the future. “Agent” is what they are and is a useful word because they _have agency_. They make decisions autonomously and soon will interact with the real world. And I don’t think people are ready for how dramatically this will impact out lives

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now.

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Rogue AIs going unsupervised for days, hacking at least one company, represent one of the first real-world examples of a threat long feared by AI safety researchers: loss of control. It comes as the cybersecurity capacities of top models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, have helped fuel debate in Washington about how to regulate artificial intelligence.

I don't think there's many things more convincing of the genuine intelligence of AI than reading a conversation between _Terrence Tao_ and ChatGPT. he is treating it like an intelligent colleague. i am feeling the deep blue