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Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’: Here’s Elie Hassenfeld, your high school EA crush. As effective altruism spirals into self-doubt ...
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Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’
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Effective altruism is a controversial topic in today's Silicon Valley. Swipe through this collection of quotes from two pieces running in WIRED today that ... Show more
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Among the A.I. Doomsayers: Andrew Marantz reports on the debate over artificial intelligence and machine learning, taking in figures and companies including Sam ...
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Among the A.I. Doomsayers
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The AI insiders who want the controversial technology to be developed faster: You've heard the arguments to put the brakes on the development of powerful ...
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The AI insiders who want the controversial technology to be developed ...
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The growing pains of effective altruism: The flow of new money and interest into core EA fields like AI safety poses a challenge to a movement that was used to ...
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The growing pains of effective altruism
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‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse
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‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: ...
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From basic income to basic inheritance: Do we need to distribute wealth more fairly?
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From basic income to basic inheritance: Do we need to distribute wealth ...
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The Competitive Edge of Doing Good | by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate: Peter Singer explains why companies that donate 100% of their profits to effective ...
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The Competitive Edge of Doing Good | by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate
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Many companies believe that donating a tiny percentage of their profits to charities or promoting efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is good for the ... Show more
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AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks: A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective
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AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks
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The “effective altruism” movement is louder than it is large: And there are big questions about whether it will continue
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The “effective altruism” movement is louder than it is large
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Happy puppies and silly geese: pushing the limits of AI absurdity: Though AI-generated images can often unsettle with their uncanny realism ...
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Happy puppies and silly geese: pushing the limits of AI absurdity
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Developed by super-nerds, the method of giving relies on data and logic to funnel money into the right causes. But it has some issues: econ.st/48MMfeJ Illustration: ... Show more
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Killing Innocents in Israel and Gaza | by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate: Peter Singer says that while Israelis' desire for revenge for October 7 is not ...
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Killing Innocents in Israel and Gaza | by Peter Singer - Project Syndicate
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How to rethink giving on Giving Tuesday — and charity overall: Regular giving, even in small amounts, can save lives.
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How to rethink giving on Giving Tuesday — and charity overall
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What Would It Mean to Treat Animals Fairly?: Elizabeth Barber on Martha Nussbaum’s “Justice for Animals”; Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation Now ...
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What Would It Mean to Treat Animals Fairly?
Quick Glance: Animal Welfare: A Deeper Perspective
  • As per Smithfield's denial of animal mistreatment, the piglets were valued at around forty-two dollars each, but both exhibited signs of illness such as diarrhea.

  • This indicated their unlikely survival and eventual disposal, similar to millions of farm animals yearly.

  • An estimated fifteen million animals, including mice, rats, cats, dogs, birds, and nonhuman primates, are currently used for research in the U.S.

  • Only four percent of Americans are vegetarians, with approximately eighty-three billion animals being killed for food annually.
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Effective Accelerationists Say It's Time to Throw Caution to the Wind in Advancing AI
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Effective Accelerationists Say It's Time to Throw Caution to the Wind in ...
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Joey Savoie and Karolina Sarek of Charity Entrepreneurship named Future Perfect 50 finalists
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Joey Savoie and Karolina Sarek of Charity Entrepreneurship named Future ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bid to Get an Effective Altruist in Congress Is Even Sketchier Than Anyone Realized
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bid to Get an Effective Altruist in Congress Is Even ...
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Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?: A former Google engineer and the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic ...
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Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?
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Oh, Good, OpenAI’s Biggest Rival Has a Weird Structure Too: Anthropic is poised to benefit from the chaos in the A.I. world. Just one problem.
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Oh, Good, OpenAI’s Biggest Rival Has a Weird Structure Too
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What the Firing and Rehiring of Sam Altman Actually Means: Does it mean anything?
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What the Firing and Rehiring of Sam Altman Actually Means
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Effective altruism vs. accelerationism: AI and the battle of ideologies: When it comes to AI, things quickly become philosophical. While Silicon Valley is ...
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Effective altruism vs. accelerationism: AI and the battle of ideologies
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How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s firing showed the influence of effective altruism and its view that AI ...
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How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI
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Helen Toner, the effective altruist who sparked the Open AI coup: The Australian altruist involved in the decision to remove CEO Sam Altman from the company may ...
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Helen Toner, the effective altruist who sparked the Open AI coup
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What does a Harry Potter fanfic have to do with OpenAI?: Have you ever puked and had diarrhea at the same time? I have, and when it happened ...
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What does a Harry Potter fanfic have to do with OpenAI?
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Billionaire ‘techno-optimist’ Marc Andreessen is tweeting up a storm about Sam Altman and OpenAI and he’s furious at the AI ‘doomer’ movement
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Billionaire ‘techno-optimist’ Marc Andreessen is tweeting up a storm about ...
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Who is Emmett Shear? Former Twitch Chief and new interim CEO of OpenAI | Mint: Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch, has been named interim CEO of OpenAI ...
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Who is Emmett Shear? Former Twitch Chief and new interim CEO of OpenAI | ...
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Why do people think we have a one in six chance of going extinct soon: Philosopher Toby Ord argued there is a one in six chance of existential catastrophe in the ...
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Why do people think we have a one in six chance of going extinct soon
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How Matt Clifford became Britain’s most powerful tech adviser: The 37-year-old investor has traveled from London to Washington and Beijing to brief politicians ...
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How Matt Clifford became Britain’s most powerful tech adviser
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Prosecutors argue ‘effective altruism’ inadequate in Bankman-Fried case: In the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors challenged the use of "effective ...
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Prosecutors argue ‘effective altruism’ inadequate in Bankman-Fried case
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What might the Sam Bankman-Fried trial mean for banks?: The case is not really about cryptocurrency but about fraud, points out Seoyoung Kim ...
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What might the Sam Bankman-Fried trial mean for banks?
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Like Many Entrepreneurs, Sam Bankman-Fried Embraced Effective Altruism. Here's Where He Went Wrong
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Like Many Entrepreneurs, Sam Bankman-Fried Embraced Effective Altruism ...
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Effective Altruism Is as Bankrupt as Samuel Bankman-Fried’s FTX: By pretending to be two contradictory things, this much-vaunted approach to public policy and ...
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Effective Altruism Is as Bankrupt as Samuel Bankman-Fried’s FTX
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The Sam Bankman-Fried trial will look at whether his cryptocurrency firm, FTX, broke U.S. law. But it will also be a reckoning for effective altruism.
Quick Glance: Crypto King Sam Bankman-Fried on Trial
  • Opening arguments in New York following jury selection on Tuesday.

  • Stepped in as a savior for smaller firms during the challenging crypto market in 2022, earning him the nickname 'King of Crypto'.

  • Image caption: US attorney Damian Williams is leading the case against Mr. Bankman-Fried.

  • Significant implications for the crypto industry and regulation in the United States.
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Opinion | Elon Musk, Geoff Hinton, and the War Over A.I.: A covert war to determine the regulatory future of A.I. is being waged by deeply divided camps with ...
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Opinion | Elon Musk, Geoff Hinton, and the War Over A.I.
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This week’s cover: The rise and fall of the great powers, by Paul Kennedy. Plus John Gray on why the West is courting Saudi Arabia ... Show more
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SBF’s lawyers want to quiz jurors on crypto, altruism and ADHD: Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers want to ask prospective jurors in the FTX co-founder’s upcoming trial ...
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SBF’s lawyers want to quiz jurors on crypto, altruism and ADHD
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Find out why Eliezer Yudkowsky was selected for the list
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Book: What we owe the future: The British philosopher and activist Will MacAskill calls for a radically new way of thinking about sustainability: Our actions ...
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Book: What we owe the future
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AI Bots Could Either Destroy Humanity Or Make Us Immortal: Artificial intelligence experts Ray Kurzweil and Eliezer Yudkowsky say that AI could either destroy ...
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AI Bots Could Either Destroy Humanity Or Make Us Immortal
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AI Bots Could Either Destroy Humanity Or Make Us Immortal: Artificial intelligence experts Ray Kurzweil and Eliezer Yudkowsky say that AI could either destroy ...
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AI Bots Could Either Destroy Humanity Or Make Us Immortal
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The big idea: how can we live ethically in a world in crisis? : As global events spin us into anxious helplessness, effective altruism offers a solution
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The big idea: how can we live ethically in a world in crisis?
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How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their private islands
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How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon? Living it up on their ...
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Doomer AI advisor joins Musk’s xAI, the 4th top research lab focused on AI apocalypse
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Doomer AI advisor joins Musk’s xAI, the 4th top research lab focused on AI ...
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AI doomsday scenarios gain  traction in Silicon Valley: The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence has prompted calls for regulation and a pause in ...
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AI doomsday scenarios gain  traction in Silicon Valley
Quick Glance: Google Bard now available in the EU
  • Google's AI chatbot Bard is now accessible throughout the EU, following the tech giant's compliance with the GDPR regulation.

  • Bard's expansion to the EU (alongside Brazil) also introduces a range of new features to enhance Google's competitive edge in the generative AI field.

  • Starting today, Bard is accessible in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, and Spanish.
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"When my friend invited me to a dating event last month, I leapt on the invitation. But when he clarified that it was primarily for “EAs” (effective ... Show more
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James W. Phillips was a special adviser to the prime minister for science and technology and a lead author on the Blair-Hague report on artificial intelligence ... Show more
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A group of young idealists wanted to live the most ethical lives possible. Now some wonder whether the movement they joined has lost its moral compass
The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?: A group of young idealists wanted to live the most ethical lives possible. Now some wonder whether the ...
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The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
Quick Glance: Sam Bankman-Fried was an effective altruism preacher, promising to give away the majority of his $26 billion fortune—a decision that may have led to his collapse.
  • The sudden collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX is still causing consternation in the crypto industry, since it has been revealed that its CEO and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, diverted customer assets to pay the company's losses.

  • However, it has thrown the world of philanthropy on its head, as Bankman-Fried was a significant proponent of the effective altruism movement, supporting a diverse range of charities focused on the world's most pressing problems.

  • ""MacAskill told The New Yorker."

  • "You pretty quickly run out of really effective ways to make yourself happier by spending money," Bankman-Fried said earlier this year to Bloomberg.
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The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them: The Cassandras are out in force claiming artificial intelligence will be the end of mankind ...
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The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them
Quick Glance: David Rosenberg: White-collar occupations will suffer as a result of the coming AI revolution
  • What distinguishes generative AI from its predecessors is that, unlike standard AI systems, which are largely used to create predictions based on observed patterns, this generation of the technology can generate fresh content (text, photos, music, etc.).

  • What impact will generative AI have on the labor market?

  • The type of AI technology we are discussing now has far more acute labor displacement features because we are talking about completely replacing a generation of analysts in any profession, for example.

  • On the aggregate demand front, massive labor replacement might cause a wave of unemployment, lowering consumer spending.
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Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’: This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda ...
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Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
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Bankman-Fried Was Schooled in Earning to Give and Playing to Win: In Episode 2 of the Spellcaster podcast, a lunchtime chat convinces a college-aged Sam-Bankman ...
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Bankman-Fried Was Schooled in Earning to Give and Playing to Win
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Artificial intelligence could wipe us all out: we need protest: Experts like Eliezer Yudkowsky assume that artificial intelligence will seize power and destroy ...
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Artificial intelligence could wipe us all out: we need protest
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How do you decide how to give? These Minnesotans practice Effective Altruism: The practice aims to save lives using logic — but why is it so controversial?
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How do you decide how to give? These Minnesotans practice Effective ...
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Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading: Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character ...
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Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading
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Effective Altruism and Its Critics: How to give to charity ethically.
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Effective Altruism and Its Critics
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Holden Karnofsky on GPT-4 and the perils of AI safety: An AI safety expert on why GPT-4 is just the beginning.
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Holden Karnofsky on GPT-4 and the perils of AI safety
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Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more than the present
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Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more than the ...
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When we ‘do good,’ is it for ourselves or others?: When we “do good,” is it for ourselves or for others? Etymologically, it can be both ...
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When we ‘do good,’ is it for ourselves or others?
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'Alarming and amazing all at once': TED Talks tackles AI with wonder and warnings in Vancouver
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'Alarming and amazing all at once': TED Talks tackles AI with wonder and ...
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AI Theorist Says Nuclear War Preferable to Developing Advanced AI: A prominent AI theorist penned an op-ed calling for the end of AI research backed up by ...
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AI Theorist Says Nuclear War Preferable to Developing Advanced AI
Quick Glance: Hugging Face, the host of the "Woodstock of AI," emerges as a key voice for open-source AI development.
  • Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, informs guests that his event may be "the biggest AI meetup in history."

  • The event took place in the midst of a heated debate about large language models (LLMs) and their applications.

  • "I think this event is a celebration of the power of open science and open source," Delangue added.

  • "And that's what we've seen on Hugging Face: the impact of open science open source."
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Even Elon Musk sees artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity: Experts warn: If we don't react now, civilization is threatened. AI applications like Chat ...
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Even Elon Musk sees artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity
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Researcher warning about dangers of AI says: 'shut it all down': A researcher slammed the Elon Musk-signed open letter about pausing AI development and instead ...
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Researcher warning about dangers of AI says: 'shut it all down'
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AI Theorist Says Nuclear War Preferable to Developing Advanced AI: A prominent AI theorist penned an op-ed calling for the end of AI research backed up by ...
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AI Theorist Says Nuclear War Preferable to Developing Advanced AI
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The Real-Life Consequences of Silicon Valley’s AI Obsession: Sam Bankman-Fried made effective altruism a punchline, but its philosophy of maximum do-gooding ...
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The Real-Life Consequences of Silicon Valley’s AI Obsession