I’m hiring a postdoc to work with me on social implications of AI. Technical/CS background (especially within the ML cluster) plus serious interest or degree in social sciences and/or industry experience. Posting coming soon.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted alex medina
Good job if you think we dead, but not because of robot backflips in the battlefield but because Amazon will use these robots to put AAA batteries you bought in the correct shipping box while the unemployed millions are recruited into militias.
https://twitter.com/mrmedina/status/931291808394440706 …zeynep tufekci added,
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Also good job if progress in battery miniaturization efforts scare you more than backflipping robots because you don't think "oh great, phones that last longer" but rather you have slaughterbot swarm nightmares.3 replies 13 retweets 75 likesShow this thread -
In other words, I want to create a team to collectively think through how the historically-aligned, mundane incentives for the development of technologies in the penumbra of machine intelligence will interact with how human societies operate.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Natalie Brender
"historically-aligned": stuff that we know from history that humans will do, try to do, and that will matter under the current economic, political and social incentive structures. (So robots playing chess or doing backflips are not too relevant),https://twitter.com/NatalieBrender/status/935237403190575105 …
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"Use exciting new technology to build death machines" seems to qualify as "historically aligned". "... to replace labor" is, of course, also does.
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Replying to @OmegaPolice @o_guest
yes! though worrying about backflip robots is in horseless carriage category, imo. unlikely that’s the form.
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The backflip is clearly a demonstration. What are the implications? Robots will soon be able to do acrobatics and navigate difficult terrain, are hard to trip up, etc.
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Replying to @OmegaPolice @o_guest
why would you bother navigating “difficult terrain” on the ground? that’s an artifact of human limitations. instead, i’d expect a swarm of small, cheap drones with charges...
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Also why are you focussing on Altas — it's preprogrammed. It didn't learn how do to backflips, the humans coding it did. It's like saying you are scared of the moves of a NPC in a video game.
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15 years ago we laughed about the dumb CS bots. Nowadays, we have to tune down bots so that humans stand a chance.
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