NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice.
Give it a read:
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
Nothing like working while my dogs bring on the emotional support
Lots of unasked questions here.
Marisa Kabas
Surprising no one, things did not in fact go according to plan.
Rafeyah Akram
We’ve spotted several posts circulating on social media claiming that no Muslim countries are taking in refugees.
This isn’t true. The latest statistics from the UNHCR show Muslim-majority countries host millions of refugees.
Rafeyah Akram
Oops, forgot to link the original article. Here's the latest in an endless series of "China does a good thing, here's why that's bad." In this go around the good thing is abundance and that's bad.
Margot Finn
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster exploded mid-air while descending after a Starship test launch from Texas. The blast underscored the difficulty of recovering the booster even as the upper stage continued...
A Gaza flotilla activist, Meriem Hadjal testifed that Israeli forces tortured and sexually assaulted her following the interception of an aid vessel in international waters near Cyprus.
From Crusader imagery to “Christian Britain” rhetoric, Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom march in London revealed how religion is increasingly being used as a political identity marker - and a tool for anti-Muslim mobilisation
The UN has reportedly placed Israel on its “blacklist” of entities suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict, according to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Dannon (pictured), who condemned the move as “outrageous”
Social media posts claiming no Muslim countries are taking in refugees are false. Muslim-majority countries host millions of refugees according to the latest statistics from the UNHCR.
"Researchers have used top Generative #AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately": www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u... #ethics #tech
American and Chinese workers are paying a high price for all the cheap goods.
Top AI systems show bias towards rewarding overly complex prose styles and only match human examiners for grade bands around half the time, research finds.
Blaming China for forcing the West to deindustrialize is quite the interesting interpretation of history. As I recall it, it was the West that voluntarily deindustrialized and pushed manufacturing jobs overseas for cheaper wages and less legal protections of the workers.
The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
