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@agstrait
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London, England
Joined March 2013
- Kate is incredible and has tirelessly carried Google's child safety work since joining. This is not only a blatantly illegal firing of a worker protesting unjust policies, it's also an enormous loss that makes their products less safe for kids. Disgusting behaviour from Google.Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥 Solidarity always ✊ we'll keep us safe when we fight together
- If it wasn't clear yet, it sure seems the future of this technology depends on surveilling literally everything you do on your devices.AI NEWS: Leaks just revealed Google is planning to launch a 'Recall' feature for the Pixel. Plus, more developments from Meta, ElevenLabs, Runway, Perplexity, Nomic AI, and Elon Musk/xAI. Here's everything going on in AI right now:
- Why release this during an election year? What evidence of social utility does this have when the risks are so obvious? This is why we need regulation that *prevents* these kind of unethical, high risk products with no proven efficacy or safeguards in place from being released.Replying to @rowancheungMicrosoft just introduced VASA-1. It's a new AI model that can turn 1 photo and 1 piece of audio into a fully lifelike human deepfake. Wild to drop this right before the election 😬
- I've had a lot of people reach out this week about the Verge coverage on the plight of content moderators. As someone who did this work as a full-time employee for Google for 6 years, here are a few general thoughts (1/13) theverge.com/2019/2/25/1822…
- I can't recall any other protest over an algorithm. Sadly this won't be the last.
00:00 - Life🚨 news🚨 klaxon Today is my last day at @DeepMind. I am so deeply grateful to the phenomenal team I've worked with these last 2+ years there. In Nov, I'll join the amazing team at @AdaLovelaceInst as their Head of Research Partnerships - too excited for what's ahead!
- We've been down this road before, and should be skeptical about an unproven technical system's ability to improve health inequalities. Our research has found its not that simple - particularly for a technology that routinely generates false info.Today Sam Altman and I published a piece in TIME sharing our vision for how AI-driven personalized behavior change can transform healthcare and announcing the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global, which will be devoted to
- There was never a social contract to mass collect people's personal data and mass infringe copyrighted work.Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: the social contract for content that is on the open web is that it's "freeware" for training AI models
00:00 - Maybe, but it's not a wild coincidence that AI research labs closing off research for supposed safety reasons occurs at the same time as commercial monetisation of said research. It does seem competition, not safety, is the primary driver for this.It is very hard to flat out admit you were wrong, so I have a lot of respect here for @ilyasut and others at OpenAI. Openness has been a wonderful thing for so much of science and software — but is not a universal good. 🧵 theverge.com/2023/3/15/2364…
- No one can tell you what 'advanced AI' is. But it is worth remembering that some communities and people already face existential risks from 'simple' AI systems today that deny their healthcare, target them for police surveillance, remove their benefits, etc.
- AI is not a magical entity unleashed unto the world! We're talking about regulating the behaviour of companies and gov'ts building and using tools. Stop with these metaphors - if we can regulate leaded gasoline, car and drug manufacturers, banks etc., we can regulate AI.Comrade Starmer embracing the extreme Luddite position here🫡
- After extensive negotiations and a four-year vetting process, I'm pleased to announce we have agreed to a merger 💍
