HeyJaredMarcus on AI
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Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout (opens the original)
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An interview (my questions in italics) with Zephyr Teachout, attorney, author, and law professor that could not be more timely:What’s your background, legal and otherwise, and what makes you interested in these issues?I’m a law professor at Fordham Law School, I’ve drafted tech legislation that has been enacted and plenty that hasn’t, I worked for the New York Attorney General investigating civil violations of other companies, and I have over two decades of experience in studying tech policy and
BREAKING: Florida seeks injunction against OpenAI (opens the original)
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The big news in the media this morning is that Jensen (“What, me worry?”) Huang has announced a platform for “AI Agent Safety”. This is both an implicit acknowledgment that, yes, we should in fact be worried, and an important step toward addressing the ever-growing fiasco of general-purpose agents with internet access.How much it actually helps, of course, remains to be seen. Nvidia often announces software, like Nemoclaw, that had had relatively little impact. Software for PR, as one friend put
Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes (opens the original)
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Went on BBC last night and nearly vomited in the electronic green room, as they played back-to-back clips from Altman, Huang, and Sanders, not one of which seemed credible to me. I’m not blaming BBC; what they played was all newsworthy: prominent people making claims that the public might want to know about. (And to their credit, they gave me a chance to rebut them.) But all of it was in one way or another nonsensical, uttered with perfect conviction.Let’s take them in turn. Here’s Sam Altman:<a
Sad to see Jensen Huang claim that AGI has arrived, with no evidence and no definitions (opens the original)
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A couple hours ago Jensen Huang declared that the race to AGI is over. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="584" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbW1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazon
Pause OpenAI, now (opens the original)
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I have often counseled calm where others might counsel panic. I told you that the Hugging Face incident could likely have been prevented had best cybersecurity practices been followed. (And I stand by that.)I told you (and most people still seem unaware) that that the OpenAI Hugging Face incident was part of a training exercise, with some internal guardrails shut down, so it was not quite as bad as it seemed1I told you that Astra probably wasn&
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