NASA Caught Purchasing Controversial AI Surveillance Software

Rocket

Time sensitive AI safety opportunity. We have about 24 hours to comment to the government about AI safety issues, potentially influencing their policy. Just quickly posting a "please prioritize preventing human exctinction" might do a lot to make them realize how many people care

What a blessing

An AI Policy Tool for Today: Ambitiously Invest in NIST

meirl

Novels showcase a very selective version of the past

Apollo is hiring. Deadline April 25th

Today I learned about the concept of "physics envy". Where people in the humanities wish their fields were more goddamn tractable

Is Utilitarianism Too Demanding? - "Few people can actually become utilitarian superheroes. Most of us will achieve the best possible results by not over-extending ourselves"

I like how this bit of my classics bookshelf sort of tells a story. Starts with colonialism and the excesses of the wealthy leading to communism, which then leads to gulags and totalitarianism.

I can fix Shane

Is the specification problem basically solved? Not the alignment problem as a whole, but specifying human values in particular. Like, I think Claude could quite adequately predict what would be considered ethical or not for any arbitrarily chosen human

Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

Meirl

Amazing infographic from a course on reducing polarization I'm taking

Amazing image from a course on reducing polarization I'm taking

Give spiders what they deserve

Pentagon Signs Deal to Deploy AI Agents for Military Use - "What could go wrong?"

Comic about how to fight hate

A middle aged woman

Kingfisher and egret

“Frankly, I have never engaged in any direct-action movement which did not seem ill-timed.” - MLK

“Frankly, I have never engaged in any direct-action movement which did not seem ill-timed.” - MLK

"We should treat AI chips like uranium" - Dan Hendrycks & Eric Schmidt