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It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current form, the law would go…
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The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
Apparently Elon Musk is citing a ‘threat to humanity,’ while Mark Zuckerberg is defending his not-so-open open source AI tools.
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Elon Musk Isn’t a Climate Hero
Appreciate Tesla for what it’s done: create visionary electric cars. But don’t hand Musk, and the copycats to come, a free pass just because of it.
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The Wild, Uncertain Future of Carbon Dioxide Removal
A group of powerful companies on Monday announced a new venture to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Meta, Alphabet, Stripe, Shopify, and McKinsey are pledging together to buy $US925 ($1,284) million worth of carbon removal over the next nine years, a move they say will create a market that will help develop needed…