Rejoice, nerds: my mom has now heard of the existential risk of AI, so it's officially a real topic that normal people might take us seriously on!

Swear every 5th tweet in my following feed is someone I don't in fact follow tweeting a buzzfeed listicle-style AI hype thread.

“We reject the premise that only wealthy white men…decide what constitutes an existential threat to society….For people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, religious & caste minorities, indigenous people, migrants…technology has always posed an existential threat…

‘Because we present real and present danger and not science fiction, our concerns are presented as negligible’👏👏👏👏💪💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hot take: Word limits are almost always better than page limits!! Page limits: - Encourage margin fudging - Amount of content differs on page+font size, line spacing, margins, phase of the moon Word limits: - Encourage succinct writing - Amount of content is always the same!

Glimpses of AGI: octopus correctly predicted several UEFA Championship and FIFA World Cup football match results. @emilymbender.bsky.social @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) ND - tweets are my own en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_…

You can't invoke the comparison that AI risk is on par with the existential and safety risks of nuclear, whilst simultaneously dismissing regulations and assessments of nuclear systems as being too rigorous for AI.

"Extinction" would directly affect the elite, which is why they care about it mitigating "extinction" risks. "Sub-extinction" risks from AI that harm marginalized peoples don't get signatures like this, from Sam Harris, Grimes, and Toby Ord. Here's a crucial point: if AGI

Thank you Lux Miranda from @UU_University for joining us today for our lab's summer speaker series! Lux shared their perspectives on social identity in human-robot interaction, and the results of her recent survey on this topic. 🧵/

We're hiring again at Uppsala Social Robotics Lab! Postdoc assoc. with EU project, topics inc. robot transparency, multimodal interaction, algorithmic fairness and gender-sensitive design. Need to have or be *very close* to having PhD! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Headline: "The rate of bad thing X has increased by 1 billion percent!" Translation: "The prior rate of X was probably really small and thus more subject to noise, and the current rate of X is probably still very small."

Trans and non-binary people have unique perspectives that can help guide Human-Robot Interaction research. Find out more in MIRRORLab MS student Michael Stolp-Smith's The HRI Conference #HRI2024 paper: mirrorlab.mines.edu/publications/s… 🧵

Call for papers coming soon! 3rd edition of the Robo-Identity workshop at #HRI2024 is in the works 🥳 This year's theme is *Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World*

Call for Papers‼️🤖🆔 Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World, a hybrid half-day workshop at #HRI2024 Following the success of the 1st 2 editions of this workshop, this year, we will emphasise on the fluid nature of robo-identity in the shared world.

Submit to our hybrid WS on Robo-Identity sites.google.com/view/hri2024wo… The HRI Conference by 15 Feb! We’ll discuss topics like how our personal & social identity evolve & robots' identity can also do so! Identity is a design challenge in a world we share w/ 🤖! Follow hriroboidentity

thank you thank you, i'm happy this is the slide that was tweeted 😁

in case you missed our paper where we made robots that are sometimes queer and sometimes immigrants and brought them to 4th-6th grade classrooms to study the impact of robotic gender and ethnic diversity on trust and social bias, check it out here! The HRI Conference #HRI2024