One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop
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It's been an eventful year
It’s almost exactly a year since we launched this newsletter and began writing our book. Earlier this week, we turned in our manuscript to our publisher! It’s now in the hands of peer reviewers. In the book, we dig into the ideas behind generative AI, tackle fears around artificial general intelligence, explain the scientific and ethical limitations of predictive AI, categorize the many types of AI harms, explore why AI has failed to fix social media, analyze how AI hype and misinformation are created and amplified, and argue that many AI problems in fact reflect problems with capitalism…
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