Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023

Emily and Alex tackle the White House hype about the 'voluntary commitments' of companies to limit the harms of their large language models: but only some large language models, and only some, over-hyped kinds of harms.

Plus a full portion of Fresh Hell...and a little bit of good news.

References:

White House press release on voluntary commitments
Emily’s blog post critiquing the “voluntary commitments”
An “AI safety” infused take on regulation

AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers — and Isn’t Intelligent

Fresh AI Hell:

Future of Life Institute hijacks SEO for EU's AI Act

LLMs for denying health insurance claims

NHS using “AI” as receptionist

Automated robots in reception

Can AI language models replace human research participants?

A recipe chatbot taught users how to make chlorine gas

Using a chatbot to pretend to interview Harriet Tubman

Worldcoin Orbs & iris scans

Martin Shkreli’s AI for health start up

Authors impersonated with fraudulent books on Amazon/Goodreads

Good News:

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.