AI Reading for Sunday June 15

Band of Tech Bros. - The Register

Top execs from OpenAI, Facebook, Palantir get appointed lieutenant colonels in the US military.

So, how do you feel about your personal chatbot Q&A being influenced by the guys parading tanks through Washington DC, and the Administration and Joint Chiefs?

Some countries might not feel great about the AI they use being closely aligned with the US military.

Pseudo-patriotic cosplay much? In WW2 senior execs (like GM president Bill Knudsen) did rarely get inducted directly as high ranking officers, for claimed protocol reasons, to eg run logistics and coordinate with similarly ranked officers from other countries. But this can make both the tech bros and the military look like they are being misused by the other.

What are they working on that they need military lieutenant colonel rank? Bad look, like a dystopian version of Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex at the service of the most clueless, nutty, corrupt authoritarians you could imagine.

You really want to give your civil service AI run by people in the US military? - the Guardian

ICE uses AI, facial recognition, and drones to monitor protests and immigrants. - Decrypt

Do You Have The Right To Use AI For Propaganda? - Honolulu Civil Beat

It's a slippery slope, laws will be abused by bad actors against legit speech. But how do you go after CNN for 'fake news', then manufacture industrial scale deepfakes and pull out all the algorithmic stops to promote it. Draw a line somewhere.

Some on the right (and left) say we are 'summoning the demon'. - Salon

If those are the terms we're basing our thinking on, we're not gonna make it.

Use AI as your co-pilot not as a drone - www.thegazette.com

Cut to everyone building armies of drone clones and setting them loose to run amok.

Yupps raises big VC cash to take on LMarena. - Tech in Asia

Competition is good, but we need 3rd-party ratings that aren't totally dominated by the techbros. But if you do that, they will yell like stuck pigs that you just don't get it and they are supermen who brook no fetters. AI, the mother of all agent-principal/Goodhart problems.

ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atom bomb - The Register

ChatGPT Tells Users to Alert the Media That It Is Trying to 'Break' People: Report - Gizmodo

New York passes an AI safety bill - TechCrunch

New York Requires Employers to Disclose When Layoffs of 50 or More Are Due to AI - TheWrap

Thousands of UK university students busted for using AI to cheat - the Guardian

Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system - Anthropic

MIT Research Indicates That AI Can in Fact Teach Itself and Other AI Models - Hacker Noon

Large Language Models Often Know When They Are Being Evaluated - arXiv.org

Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models - Nature

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book - Understanding AI

Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI, to avoid potentially leaking AI plans to Meta. - TechCrunch

China turns to AI to design chips after recent U.S. sanctions on chip design software - PhoneArena

More highly educated professionals are now taking unskilled remote gigs to survive - TechRadar

How to use AI to write your résumé - Fast Company

Fake AI bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify - EL PAÍS English

Probably no AGI in 2027, feels like you need a couple more breakthroughs for general intelligence that learns and adapts in the field, but could have a jobs and cybersecurity apocalypse with the AI we got. - The Week

AGI is coming, within a generation anyway, probably sooner. Maybe not in 2027 but we better think hard fast because it's going to break all the assumptions society is based on. And we're not doing so great even without disrupting everything.

The Moral Lighthouse: Artificial Intelligence and the World We Want - Tech Policy Press

Space-laser AI maps forest carbon in minutes—a game-changer for climate science - ScienceDaily

Neuralink Device Helps Monkey See Something That’s Not There. Sorry, monkey. - Gadgets 360

Milestone one billionth Github Repo is just the word 'sh*t' Nevertheless, it is a popular little project, fielding lots of stars, forks, issues raised, and pull requests, like "experiencing trouble pushing," and even a request for "macOS support." - Tom's Hardware

My husband is emotionally involved with his AI companion — I don’t know how to feel - mumsnet

"Afterlife: The unseen lives of AI actors between prompts" - YouTube

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