Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK's Online Safety Bill, and more
The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru . Tweets: @grettalouw , @colincrowell , @anjali28 , @amymaxmen , @san_lambert , @1br0wn , and @marloscmachado LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru : The biggest specialty of the godfathers & such in “AI” is erasing women. They're nowhere to be found when we are fired … Tweets: Gretta Louw / @grettalouw : “There is no Cartesian window of neutrality that you can put an algorithm behind and be like, “This is outside our present and history.” These algorithms are trained on data that reflects not the world, but the internet - which is worse, arguably.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Colin Crowell / @colincrowell : “These are the people who could pause it if they wanted to....These are some of the most powerful people when it comes to having the levers to actually change this, so it's a bit like the president issuing a statement saying somebody needs to issue an executive order. It's... https://twitter.com/... Anjali Ramachandran / @anjali28 : Excellent by @mer__edith - Signal's Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’ https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Amy Maxmen, PhD / @amymaxmen : Existential AI warnings are convenient because they leave the present status quo untouched while leading companies entrench their dominance. A+ Q&A w @mer__edith https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Sandrine Lambert / @san_lambert : “These are some of the most powerful people when it comes to having the levers to actually change this, so it's a bit like the president issuing a statement saying somebody needs to issue an executive order. It's disingenuous”👏@mer__ edith #AI https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Ian Brown / @1br0wn : AI doomers “project everything into the far future so they leave the status quo untouched. And if the status quo is untouched you're going to see these companies & their systems further entrench their dominance such that it becomes impossible to regulate.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Marlos C. Machado / @marloscmachado : “If you were to heed Timnit's warnings you would have to significantly change the business and the structure of these companies. If you heed Geoff's warnings, you sit around a table at Davos and feel scared. (...) [they] leave the status quo untouched.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...