Great article by Sam Biddle where I note the dangers of not understanding the failure modes of AI prior to being deployed in military applications.

On Animation Guild AI negotiations: 'It will centre around control - control over when and how AI products are deployed in our craft; who is requiring its use, who is able to make choices about how they are used' - Sam Tung ✍🎞 Story Artist
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Come work with us! We’re hiring for multiple roles at AI Now - details at the link below 👇

🚨🤖 Pls join lpe nyc & Surveillance Resistance Lab on Weds, 3/27 @ 7PM NYU Law!

'Digital Identity & Domination: The Mayor, the NYPD, and the MyCity Platform' w/ Cynthia Conti-Cook, vincent southerland, Raúl Carrillo & Mizue Aizeki

Registration: forms.gle/x2MYDsxj1uRJfH…

Some news, as they say: I’m pleased to share that I’ll be joining the AI Now Institute for a project that puts the business models of AI companies under the microscope.

And drop me a line if you have thoughts or insights — or OpenAI slide decks to share. My Signal is 8057052836

Taking a beat to appreciate the sharp and principled folks who make AI Now's work what it is - Amba Kak and I are extremely lucky in our people. More to share on this front soon; watch this space!

A year since the launch of our 2023 Landscape Report, we are excited to share team updates.

Read all about them here: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-now… 🧵

Microsoft has no track record or historical understanding of nuclear processes (or AI for that matter). They're not just for bureaucratic means, they're to ensure safety which requires significant accuracy AI is not capable of. This is dangerous, irresponsible, and ignorant.

Wrote about the UAE's industrial AI policy as a security regime which is being used to rebalance its geopolitical power by ingratiating itself to 'both sides' in the US-China 'arms race' & how this is also contributing to its new/old tech deals with the Israeli occupation:

In our essay AI Now Institute's collection on global industrial AI policy, .Mila T Samdub and I posit that India is poised to exert significant influence on global AI development.

Yet, its national AI strategy fails to address key sites of power in AI.

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Today AI Now Institute published my essay on the UK’s industrial approach to AI over the last 10+ years.

I argue that successive governments have failed to present a coherent vision for the role that the AI industry should play within the UK economy... 🧵

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Susannah Glickman Amba Kak Sarah Myers West Max von Thun Jyoti Mila T Samdub Matt Davies Sandra Makumbirofa Islam With gratitude to all of our contributors, we are excited to introduce this new stream of work critiquing current industrial policy approaches, and guiding them toward an incisive vision of the public interest. More soon!

Read the full collection:
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