HeyJaredThinking Freely with Nita Farahany
Somewhat frequent thoughts on how to think freely in the digital age
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When Anyone Can Fake Anything (Inside My AI Law & Policy Class #11) (opens the original)
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A fake image of Mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man who was not her husband has gone viral across social media, traveling faster once it was deemed fake rather than slowing its spread. When she first took office six years ago, the creation of a fake video like this would have taken considerable skill and intent. Today, a computer, a prompt and some token credit is enough to do so. Deepfakes and misinformation are an increasing concern to the point that some describe our current reality as th
When We Ask for Transparency, What Do We Want? (Inside my AI Law and Policy Class #10) (opens the original)
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By now you’ve heard about the July incident where OpenAI was testing its models, and they went rogue. Reports keep trickling in about models breaking free from their testing environments, accessing private data in the Australian health ministry, hacking into US-government websites, leaking private user data to the web, and probably many many more incidences. Anthropic and OpenAI are now investigating “tens of thousands” of incidents in whi
Does AI Score my Resume Better or Worse as a Male? (Inside my AI Law and Policy Class #9) (opens the original)
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Before the live class today, I took my resume and ran a little experiment. I opened two side-by-side screens on an AI chatbot and uploaded my resume (stripped of my publications since they have my name on them), to both prompt windows. I made only one change between the two versions of the resume: one had my actual name of Nita Farahany. On the second version I replaced my name with the name Jamal Jones.In both windows, I used the exact same prompt:You are screening applicants for an associate p
Data Centers and the Jet Engine in Your Backyard (Inside my AI Law & Policy Class #8) (opens the original)
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At 4 a.m. on a Sunday night, in Southaven, Mississippi, Jason Haley was wide awake, again, unable to sleep because of the constant whirring, the airplane like noise that had now become his new normal (click here to listen to the Vantage VA2 Data Center in Virginia to experience it for yourself). He told a public radio reporter this summer, “It’s 24
A bonus class on the “Amodei Letter” and the Ladder Beneath AI Models (opens the original)
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Last Saturday, Amodei published his essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” saying that that given the “duality of risk and benefit” from AI models, he now believes that “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.” Two of his biggest rivals quickly agreed with him within hours of his publication. On Monday, President Trump
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