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David Manheim - bsky:@davidmanheim.alter.org.il
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The future can be better than the past - let's make sure it is. Visiting lecturer , founder , , PhD from .
Washington DC/Rehovot, Israelabout.me/davidmanheimJoined January 2009

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Humanity spent millennia haunted by waterborne illnesses like cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Then we figured out how to make water safe. We are still plagued by airborne diseases like COVID-19, influenza, and common colds. Giving everyone access to safe air is an obvious goal.
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The fact that the FDA couldn't do this without Congress changing laws is a symptom of a deeper problem. Congress tries to directly make rules, instead of letting regulators do their jobs. This makes the regulators less flexible, and more subject to industry capture via lobbying.
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Isn't it time? @WSJ: U.S. drugmakers are required to print 90 billion sheets of paper a year, which health professionals don't read and throw away. Congress may allow the information to go digital to save money, trees and carbon emissions. wsj.com/articles/one-c
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Good to see confirmation that when Bing launched their GPT-4-based search using a not-fully-RLHFed model, that was Microsoft deciding to move forward despite warnings that the model wasn't ready. (But also worrying that OpenAI didn't have veto power over deployment!)
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As Microsoft and OpenAI lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes internal conflict and confusion. Story by ⁦@cityofthetown⁩ & me. wsj.com/articles/micro
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Important points in this paper, really worth reading and acting on as a form of pandemic preparedness.
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I'm excited to share my new @NatureMedicine paper "Observational studies must be reformed before the next pandemic". Co-authored w/ the amazing @anetrid @CohenProf & @neva9257! This was such a blast to write together. #pandemicpreparedness #ClinicalTrials rdcu.be/ddZig
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To state the (unfortunately insufficiently) obvious situation: Everyone can agree that an action would be good, but only if everyone did it. That doesn't mean any of them benefit if they do it unilaterally.
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[on the ‘Pause AI’ and ‘existential threat’ letters] “No I don’t think they’re good faith. These are the people who could actually pause it if they wanted to. They could unplug the data centres. They could whistleblow.” @mer__edith in today’s @guardian.
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a photograph of the newspaper containing an interview with meredith whittaker. i’ll link to the article when it goes online. there is a photo of meredith looking into the distance.
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This is a fundamental confusion. Yes, open-source software contains fewer bugs, but open-sourcing malware will enable more people to use it. If AI is easily misused, and it is, making it open source, so that it is necessarily widely available without any controls, is a bad idea.
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Zuck on Lex about LLM open sourcing: "It's agreed upon that open source software is generally more secure and safer." twitter.com/JosephJacks_/s…
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Mandate all of this, today. We can figure out if and how we can relax the rules once we see if they are helping.
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This paper seems the most underrated in terms of AI Governance: - 50 policy suggestions - survey responses from AGI labs, academia and civil society - Many were widely agreed Take the ones that get 90% agreement.
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Right there at the bottom: "Free Research Preview. ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts." So... the lawyers who relied on ChatGPT are saying the fine print isn't big enough?
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Counsel to Schwartz: He was conducting research; he thought Chat GPT was collecting information from actual sources. But it was not willful. Judge Castel: Do you have something new to say? Counsel to Schwartz: Yes. The public needs a stronger warning.
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