We often hear about how LLMs are going to degrade the internet. But what if they could heal its divides?

My exclusive story about a set of new AI tools from Google Jigsaw, released today:

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many such cases

This story was so good, I read it months ago and still keep thinking about it and talking about it. It goes in a lot of ways you don't expect it to jewishcurrents.org/after-the-hit-…

Unacceptable in a free society

remember this worker? he was fired 3 days after his brave act of protest.

he inspired 2 Google workers to resign in protest of the company's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel.

Billy Perrigo spoke w him exclusively for TIME:
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Exclusive: 2 Google workers have recently resigned over the company's Project Nimbus deal with Israel.

And DeepMind employees are worried that a recent restructure has eroded the lab's ability to prevent its AI being used in violence.

My story: time.com/6964364/exclus…

This is some of the darkest predictions of AI in warfare, coming true in 2024.

Important takeaway from this (genuinely stunning, extremely important) reporting is that the value of military 'AI' systems like this doesn't lie in decision-making, but in the ability to use the sheen of computerized 'intelligence' to justify the actions you already wanted

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'while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters.' restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

Stop what you're doing and read this right now. The most essential piece of tech criticism you'll read this year - vital work

it seems obvious that facial recognition defeats the most empowering characteristic of mass protest (anonymity in a crowd) but i think we've yet to reckon with the effect this will have on free speech in countries like the UK restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

If writing is thinking (as I believe it to be) the last thing you want to outsource to AI is the first draft because that's where the initial gathering of thoughts happens. It's why first drafts are hard. That difficulty signals their importance.

This is a sharp, thorough, and ultimately very frightening account of the continued hollowing out of journalism capable of speaking truth to power.

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New piece on Zone of Interest: the speech, the lies, most of all, Glazer's harrowing warning about how genocide can become 'ambient.'

This is what feels most contemporary, most of this terrible moment, about Glazer’s staggering film.

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