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The case against conversational interfaces
https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/
julian.digital · The case against conversational interfacesConversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go "This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We'll only use natural language going forward!". But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way w
OpenAI's Ghibli-style AI, Signal group chat leak, and Gemini 2.5 Pro for all? @leo Laporte, Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson & @jacobward unpack Gemini 2.5 Pro, 23andMe's bankruptcy, and more on TWiT 1025. 
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Can you trust AI with your archives? On April 2 at 5pm EDT, UMaine's Digital Curation program hosts a webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield on blending human crowdsourcing with AI's scale and speed. Join us for a discussion of practical uses and thorny ethics!
https://blog.still-water.net/should-you-let-ai-manage-your-collection
Viewing large language models as compression machines helps explain why they seem at turns big-brained and pea-brained. To learn more, join me for Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive, an IEEE/UMaine AI webinar next Thursday 3 April at noon Eastern
"Backed by nine governments – including Finland, France, Germany, Chile, India, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Slovenia and Switzerland – as well as an assortment of philanthropic bodies and private companies (including Google and Salesforce, which are listed as “core partners”), Current AI aims to “reshape” the AI landscape by expanding access to high-quality datasets; investing in open source tooling and infrastructure to improve transparency around AI; and measuring its social and environmental impact.
European governments and private companies also partnered to commit around €200bn to AI-related investments, which is currently the largest public-private investment in the world. In the run up to the summit, Macron announced the country would attract €109bn worth of private investment in datacentres and AI projects “in the coming years”.
The summit ended with 61 countries – including France, China, India, Japan, Australia and Canada – signing a Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet at the AI Action Summit in Paris, which affirmed a number of shared priorities.
This includes promoting AI accessibility to reduce digital divides between rich and developing countries; “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all”; avoiding market concentrations around the technology; reinforcing international cooperation; making AI sustainable; and encouraging deployments that “positively” shape labour markets.
However, the UK and US governments refused to sign the joint declaration."
ComputerWeekly.com · AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
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ICYMI, eBay’s started an “AI training” thing and all users are opted-in by default. Go here to opt out:
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A friend asked me why, being a computer expert and knowing what I know about hacking and software, I don't want to use artificial intelligence on my phone and computer. I told him, "That's exactly why, because I know very well how these things work and I try to stay as invisible as possible."
For the five years I paid of my college loans by making computers do things for local traders, I used to entertain myself by coming up every year with a new trendy term for what I did when filling in my tax forms. But I've always thought of myself as a programmer. Spoiler: in this article programmers are mere minions of developers, and seem to be getting replaced by #genAI.
The Washington Post · More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?
After all these recent episodes, I don't know how anyone can have the nerve to say out loud that the Trump administration and the Republican Party value freedom of expression and oppose any form of censorship. Bunch of hypocrites! United States of America: The New Land of SELF-CENSORSHIP.
"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.”
The information comes as part of an updated cooperative research and development agreement for AI Safety Institute consortium members, sent in early March. Previously, that agreement encouraged researchers to contribute technical work that could help identify and fix discriminatory model behavior related to gender, race, age, or wealth inequality. Such biases are hugely important because they can directly affect end users and disproportionately harm minorities and economically disadvantaged groups.
The new agreement removes mention of developing tools “for authenticating content and tracking its provenance” as well as “labeling synthetic content,” signaling less interest in tracking misinformation and deep fakes. It also adds emphasis on putting America first, asking one working group to develop testing tools “to expand America’s global AI position.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/
WIRED · Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
How easy is to persuade a large language model?
The Interchange Forum for Reflecting on
Intelligent Systems (IRIS @Stuttgart_IRIS @Uni_Stuttgart) invites all interested students and university staff to their next IRIS colloquium on March 26 at 2 PM in the room UN 302.101, where Mara Seyfert will talk about uncertainty and robustness against persuasion in large language models.
Explore AI's double-edged impact on cybersecurity, as attackers and defenders both leverage its power. From Anthropic's 'quit button' to European AI startups, delve into how ethical considerations are shaping AI's future in industries like insurance and digital defense. Join Ready To AI, along with insights from Intel Security's Bradon Rogers and Cisco's Anand Raghavan, for crucial updates and innovative trends.
Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggestin... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/anthropics-ceo-wonders-if-future-ai-should-have-option-to-quit-unpleasant-tasks/ #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #aiconsiousness #darioamodei #anthropic #aiethics #kylefish #biz #claude #tech #ai
Ars Technica · Anthropic’s CEO wonders if future AI should have option to quit “unpleasant” tasks
As an engineer, Harari's warning "Never summon powers you cannot control" resonates deeply.
I support AI development as an assistant, not a replacement—yet we humans oddly rush to replace ourselves.
AI should complement human intelligence, preserving our agency while expanding our capabilities. True innovation isn't making humans irrelevant, but enhancing what makes us human.
We need to determine strict laws related to AI and it's development even though we may not like it.
"Human flaw most dangerous in the AI era? Hubris. We’re building gods while still arguing over who gets to play prophet. #AIethics #FutureTense"
"Which human flaw is most dangerous in the AI era? Hubris. The belief that we can control what we don’t fully understand will be our undoing. #AIethics #FutureThinking"
"Which human flaw is most dangerous in the AI era? My vote: arrogance. Overestimating control, underestimating consequences. #AIethics #FutureThinking"
