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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD Profile picture
@DrTechlash
Sep 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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1/ After a week of exposés about Facebook by the @WSJ, #FacebookFiles, one of which around Instagram being toxic for teen girls, Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) Head of Instagram, defended the company (Recode Media podcast, @pkafka) by saying: Image
2/ This #ResponseTemplate is used for any possible issue. After the Capitol attack on January 6, @mosseri told @reckless (@verge, Decoder podcast): Image
3/ Back in 2019, during an interview with TIME magazine (@katysteinmetz) on the subject of online bullying, @mosseri said: Image
4/ Where do you learn to dodge responsibility? Your Boss. In 2018, in an interview with @karaswisher, addressing the Russian election meddling and the killings in Myanmar, Mark Zuckerberg explained how Facebook could “do better”: Image
5/ The #ResponseTemplate went viral across Big Tech. Last month, addressing the spread of Misinformation on YouTube, its Chief Product Officer (@nealmohan) said: Image
6/ They use the same PR playbook because the news cycle continues, and the latest issue goes away. The platforms amplify not only the good, but also the bad - in various ways. So, this reoccurring response is simply their attempt to reduce their responsibility.

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Jul 8
Out of the groups supporting Wiener's SB-1047:

Open Philanthropy funded 10 "AI Existential Risk" organizations - a total of $53.6 million

Jaan Tallinn funded 11 organizations - a total of $10.6 million for the 8 organizations with publicly available data.

(That's without 2024) Image
A reminder of Jaan Tallinn's agenda:
SB-1047's supporting groups also include:

▪️ a German "AI existential risk" think tank (KIRA)

▪️ a small Swedish startup (Lovable)

▪️ 2 graphic design studios (New Media Studio and Paper Farms)

▪️ 2 firms that do NOT exist online (General Agents and ENH Alpha LLC).
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May 31
Eliezer Yudkowsky's institute published its "2024 Communication Strategy"

The main goal (as he argued in TIME magazine) is to 🔻shut down🔻 AI development.

So, let's take a look at their strategy
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To achieve our "shut it all down" goal, we must convince policymakers to enact sweeping regulations. Image
Policymakers need to "get it" and understand that AI "will kill everyone, including their children" because it's the … "central truth"
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Mar 26
#Shibagate by date
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May 2021: Vitalik Buterin burns 80% of his SHIB holding and uses the remaining 20% for "long-term charitable causes."

Buterin's 46 Trillion SHIB tokens, worth around $755.8M (on May 17, 2021), move from his wallet to FLI's wallet. Image
May 19, 2021 – June 4, 2021: FLI uses FTX to liquidate the SHIB tokens. Image
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Aug 13, 2023
Remember the signatories of the @FLIxrisk open letter, which called for a pause on advanced AI development?

According to a new paper, "Why They're Worried," their motivation to sign had nothing to do with X-risk.

Their concerns were NOT centered on "Human Extinction" at all.

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Despite its limitations (small sample size, not peer-reviewed), the "Why They're Worried" paper is well-organized and includes valuable quotes about the signatories' actual concerns…



2datascienceincontext.com/why-theyre-wor…
In response to the Future of Life Institute's letter, there was intense media coverage focused on "X-risk."

The paper's authors (@imstruckman & Sofie Kupiec) "sought to understand signatories' personal perspectives, and how their beliefs relate to the letter's stated goals."

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Apr 21, 2023
@MelMitchell1 Based on the dataset for this survey:

Only 149 answered the "Extinction from AI" Q.
= 20% of the 738 respondents (3% of the 4,271 AI experts contacted)

Only 162 answered "Extinction from human failure to control AI" Q.
= 22% of the 738 respondents (3.7% of AI experts contacted) Image
@MelMitchell1 AI Impacts FUNDING:
MIRI (Yudkowsky), Survival & Flourishing Fund, The Centre for Effective Altruism (Oxford), Effective Altruism Funds, Open Philanthropy, Fathom Radiant. Previously: The Future of Life Institute, the Future of Humanity Institute (Bostrom), FTX Future Fund (RIP). Image
@MelMitchell1 Tristan Harris cites this study in the "AI Dilemma," his podcast, on NBC, and his New York Times OpEd with Raskin and Harari.

The New York Times REALLY loves to share this stat as well; It already appeared in Klein's column & podcast, Wallace-Wells' OpEd & The Morning newsletter Image
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Apr 18, 2023
How does the AI Dilemma copy the Social Dilemma?
Different tech - same scare tactics 🧵

The "Social Dilemma" argues that social media has godlike power over people.

The "AI Dilemma" argues that AI has godlike power over people. Image
The "Social Dilemma" anthropomorphizes the evil algorithms.

The "AI Dilemma" anthropomorphizes the evil A.I.

Both are … monsters 👾 Image
Causation is asserted as a fact: Those technological "monsters" CAUSE all the harm.

Despite other factors - confronting variables, complicated society, messy humanity, inconclusive research into those phenomena - it's all due to the evil algorithms/AI. Image
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