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Covered OJ Simpson's civil trial as the BBC's LA Correspondent in 1996-7. Will never forget the judge finding him liable and reading out the compensation amount for the slashed and bloodied clothes of Nicole Brown - a battered and abused (ex) wife - and Ron Goldman.

I give (hopefully useful?) advice to folks on careers in AI policy a lot, and many themes come up repeatedly.

So I wrote this post which includes FAQs as well as more general advice. Hope some folks find it helpful!

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Speed of AI development stretches risk assessments to breaking point ft.com/content/499c89… via @ft

'The sooner we acknowledge that technological risks are frequently an outgrowth of misaligned economic incentives, the more quickly we can work to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.' Tim O'Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Mariana Mazzucato and me on the AI risks we should be talking about!

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Another bonkers bit of broadcasting from the old man

'Bit by bit, the internet has been remade in Google’s image.' Now generative AI is being used to turbocharge SEO, users will suffer. Remember that Google's original sin means it's never been able to reconcile the interests of its users and its customers theverge.com/c/23998379/goo…

Kelly Carlin, George Carlin's daughter, offers a statement on the comedian's estate settling its lawsuit over an AI-generated comedy special: 'I hope this case serves as a warning about the dangers posed by AI technologies and the need for appropriate safeguards not just for…

Streaming platforms are hosting AI-generated music created on platforms that may be trained on copyrighted music without permission / payment.

As ~250 artists and songwriters recently said, this will “substantially dilute the royalty pools that are paid out to artists”.

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Google Books is full of AI-generated garbage. This is bad for a variety of reasons. One of them is that Google Books ultimately feeds into NGram Viewer, which is a tool academics use to do research on human culture and language

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I watched this so you don’t have to. Science is real, people. Science is real.

Live facial recognition technology is fundamentally flawed and poorly deployed. This is security theatre, and does more damage than good.

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There is an attempt in this piece to responsibly add caveats, and to point out his past failures. But it would be so much better to just not report what is obviously vacuous nonsense. ft.com/content/027b13…

I've been waiting for a paper like this to come out to pour cold water on the 'LLMs are great at summarising' line

Given their (ineradicable) tendency to add false information at random (aka hallucination/confabulation), this use case has always seemed highly dodgy to me

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Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, but the number of problems that are about optimisation seems dwarfed by the number that are wicked.

In this video for Big Think, I explain what I call 'the Myth of the Secret Genius,' from Elon Musk to other billionaires, and why luck plays a much bigger role in wealth than they like to pretend: youtube.com/watch?v=_pUxqK…