Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
how have I not yet seen a single Ross ‘unagi’ joke about this
Dare Obasanjo24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness. He bet heavily on AI related stocks until this week’s selloff led to a margin call and he had to liquidate his public portfolio. Actually sounds like a lack of situational awareness.
Meta never fail to answer their founding question: “how can we use tech to embolden and empower creeps?”
TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".www.bbc.co.uklove that reporters now have to announce tech product launches the way your local water authority informs you of an effluent release about to hit your favourite beach
Michael DerbyConsider yourself warned: Microsoft is about to supercharge Copilot: “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots...one super app spanning both consumer and commercial experience." Via Gizmodo
That Rosenbaum just openly admits his negligence at every turn, without even the slightest hint of shame, is stunning
Dorian LynskeyI've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work
Philip K. Dick couldn’t have invented a fictional company as good at eroding social trust and goodwill as Meta. It’s almost as if it’s their sole purpose.
Hypervisible“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”
I just noticed she is also now shaking her butt in a circle with every pee. Literally this
Twerking Cant SleepALT: Twerking Cant Sleepstatic.klipy.comShannon VallorPuffin is having her first season, and it’s both disturbing and hilarious. Among other behavior changes, she has gone from a single big pee on a walk to micro-pees every 20 meters, basically scattering calling cards all across Edinburgh saying CALL 1-800-PUFFIN FOR A GOOD TIME
AI labs: “hey, what if we could take the Dunning-Kruger effect, bottle it in software, and sell it to every workplace, government office, and school on the planet? Now that’s innovation!”
René WalterAI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident: "Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong." Superpersuasion by dull tone has punch. I still suspect this is the same psych mechanism that reduces belief in conspiracies.
This is outstanding reporting but be warned: a really, really hard read.
Mike HixenbaughA father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social