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Smuha argues that outsourcing important administrative decisions to algorithmic systems undermines core principles of democracy. Focusing on the European Union, Smuha argues that the EU's digital agenda is misaligned with its aim to protect the rule of law core-prod.cambridgecore.org/core/books/alg…

It’s a playbook, think of Mao’s cultural revolution

#Musk #Trump De Limburger

Now on top of the negative externalities on people’s power, water, air, and global climate, we have another: the ceding of more & more control over critical energy & water infrastructure to Silicon Valley. I wrote about this last week in The Atlantic. 14/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

But DeepSeek shows - in the same moment as the Stargate announcement - that the trade off that OpenAI & co frame as wholly necessary is actually not. 15/

As I said earlier, scaling was always more about business than science. Scientifically, there’s no law of physics that says AI advancements must come from scaling rather than approaches using the same or fewer resources. Scaling is just an incredibly easy-to-follow formula. 17/

And if a company does not make this pivot, that should be a major red flag for its capacity to innovate. And I don’t mean product innovation but innovation on how to develop AI models. The base of the stack. 20/

DeepSeek is the flip side of the same coin: It innovated because of, not in spite of, its constraints. And now that it has upended the assumptions of the dominant AI paradigm, we should reject its costly trade-offs and seek new ways to develop AI without so many harms. 24/

No one & I mean NO ONE wanted to listen to us when we screamed at the top of our lungs that the emperor has no clothes... Nothing else has taught me more about how propaganda works as seeing how everyone treated OpenAI, Deepmind & friends since their inception.

My take on the main lesson from the point of view of #AIEthics regarding DeepSeek: if we had imposed constraints for ethical reasons on American and European models, maybe we would've gotten to a more effective model before a Chinese company. A short thread 1/ 👇

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Excellent thread - nuanced, based on a proper understanding of how these models are developed and operated, while drawing the obvious conclusion. If the EU wants to lead it should NOT follow ‘magaisms’ but go for quality and long term investment

When the Vatican explains AI better than Big Tech. "Even as AI processes and simulates certain expressions of intelligence, it remains fundamentally confined to a logical-mathematical framework, which imposes inherent limitations. Human intelligence, in contrast, develops 1/

In America’s darkest hours, Canada has always been there.

‼️The Commission's guidelines on the #AIAct's prohibited practices are finally out. A whopping 140 pages long. A lot of information to digest. The guidelines on the AI system definition are not ready yet, but will be out 'soon'. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/com…

Britain: we have to understand wtf we’ve done. We’ve allowed one of Trump’s closest allies have access to our entire NHS data systems. This is the CEO of Palantir telling shareholders that ‘when it’s necessary to scare enemies & on occasion kill them’

One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understand why people think this — AI is already accelerating scientific production. But the big problem is that production seems to have gotten decoupled from any

-Francis throws down the gauntlet- The pope just published a letter to the US Bishops about President Trump’s polices, and Vice President Vance’s rhetoric, about immigration. It’s direct and clear. And feels a little unprecedented to me. 1/5

🚨HUGE: The European Commission has withdrawn the AI Liability Directive. "No foreseeable agreement - the Commission will assess whether another proposal should be tabled or another type of approach should be chosen." commission.europa.eu/publications/2…

Good on Ethan to correct this viral misinformation. People really want to believe that AI is decimating software jobs, because it feels like poetic justice, but fortunately or unfortunately that narrative is nonsense (so far). There's a simple reason why AI's labor impact so far