I should go back to food tweets before I start babbling about Leni Riefenstahl?
If you are in AI/tech, you have to pick a historical side.
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Let me say: too many worry about what AI—as if some independent entity—will do to us. Too few people worry what *power* will do *with* AI.
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That's why so many articles about chess and AI etc. Intellectual/political lack of imagination partly due to the narrow slice of writers.
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And that is why we must broaden the thinkers & political people in this space. I love my geek tribe and my academic tribe—but so so limited.
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Intellectually, we need more historians & humanists who ALSO get the tech; politically, we need people who grok what state-power means.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jack Clark
A few additions. Paper below. Paper isn't that great. Not the point--it's the direction that's worrying.https://twitter.com/jackclarkSF/status/904706379897741313 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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Also—AI threat isn't to protest since gov'ts know well anonymous protests very easy to to disrupt/subvert/misdirect. Threat is to *dissent*.
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There is a reason many movements that face deep state violence go public and away from anonymity—anonymity plays to gov't strengths. BUT +
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For a dissent *ecology* to exist, people need a basic right to privacy, dignity and autonomy. AI in the hands of power threatens all that.
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This is a minor paper; narrow, conditional results. But it's the direction & this will be done with nation-state data—not by grad students.
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Will be balanced by increase in computer camoflague clothing
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Replying to @CassidyGavin @zeynep
and any publicly known camo-clothing will be added to the training set for the AI to learn to ignore.
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