OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Twitter's Community Notes have become a surprise hit, offering fact-checking through a crowd-sourced consensus and modeling a fairer, more transparent approach
The strength of the platform's Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus — I think I might have let out an audible groan … Tweets: @daveleebbg , @jakuuire , @warrenpearce , @trhloff...
How Twitter played a major role in research and science communication, especially during the pandemic, as researchers and scientists leave the service
In November, Vince Knight decided he'd had enough of Twitter. After more than a decade on the social-media platform, Knight … Tweets: @erictopol , @marionkoopmans , @ibjiyongi , @evornithology , @kas...
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources
a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re-build the social gr...
To age in their own homes and avoid assisted living facilities, some seniors are embracing smart home tech, often at the cost of their privacy and independence
Heather Kelly / Washington Post : Tweets: @jeffnolan , @janetnovack , @robertegger , @washingtonpost , and @hypervisible Tweets: Jeff Nolan / @jeffnolan : reserve comment until you have experienced b...
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Venmo says it is ditching its global social feed, making it so users can no longer see payments between people they don't know
Good morning! This Wednesday, tech employees want to work … Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge : Venmo drops the global social feed that could make your payments visible to strangers Emily Bary / Market...
Clubhouse lacks opportunities for virality and monetization that Twitch, Snapchat, and Discord have, and its product is one feature that has been copied easily
Clubhouse, an app which allows you to join audio conversations with other people (a function unavailable in any other app or device), is now worth $4 billion. Tweets: @edzitron , @jeffnolan , @davidge...
Microsoft has managed to dodge the Big Tech backlash, with its reputation improving since 2016 thanks to a methodical approach to thorny issues
Facebook's Business Is Succeeding Despite the Controversies Tweets: Aqua-Dee / @dee_marketing : They went through this 20 years ago. They should get backlash over Outlook still constantly crashing. Je...