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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