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Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023
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Emily and Alex tackle the White House hype about the 'voluntary commitments' of companies to limit the harms of their large language models: but only some large language models, and only some, over-hyped kinds of harms.
Plus a full portion of Fresh Hell...and a little bit of good news.
References:
White House press release on voluntary commitments
Emily’s blog post critiquing the “voluntary commitments”
An “AI safety” infused take on regulation
AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers — and Isn’t Intelligent
Fresh AI Hell:
Future of Life Institute hijacks SEO for EU's AI Act
LLMs for denying health insurance claims
NHS using “AI” as receptionist
Can AI language models replace human research participants?
A recipe chatbot taught users how to make chlorine gas
Using a chatbot to pretend to interview Harriet Tubman
Martin Shkreli’s AI for health start up
Authors impersonated with fraudulent books on Amazon/Goodreads
Good News:
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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.
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