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  The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance https://hai.stanford.edu/news/tech-coup-new-book-shows-how-unchecked-power-companies-destabilizing-governance?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=51ab02d948-hai_news_october_20_2024_General&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=51ab02d948&mc_eid=6246a75df5   In  The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley , Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law. 

 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-harmful-are-ais-biases-diverse-student-populations?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=51ab02d948-hai_news_october_20_2024_General&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=51ab02d948&mc_eid=6246a75df5   How Harmful Are AI’s Biases to Diverse Student Populations? Postdoctoral fellow Faye-Marie Vassel delves into two interdisciplinary papers that examine how generative AI affects intersectional identities. Here she explores harms—ranging from erasure to subordination—and advocates for a socio-technical framework to address the issue.   bout a year ago, Khan Academy, the online education platform, launched  Khanmigo , a one-on-one, always-available AI tutor designed to support learners without giving away the answers. The pilot has reached  over 65,000 students already , with plans to expand to half a million and up to one million by fall.  Khan Academy is not the ...

 Notes on Still Exhausted Introduction 11:  While these advancements have arrived with their share of hype and grift, there is no doubt computers will increase their capacity to generate convincing images and speech at a click. Always engines of simulation and doubling, our ever-theatrical computational systems have become expert mimics of human visual art and language. AI thus presents intriguing questions about our relationship to falsity, the semiotics of language, and the crumbling liberal fantasy of authentic subjectivity ( Jucan 2023 ; Dixon-Román and Amaro 2021 ; Jarvis 2021 ). But the actors of SAG-AFTRA were not marching from existentialist commitment. They marched for their interests. They posed the duality of computers v. performance, like so many Hollywood stories of doppelgängers, as antagonistic. As SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher put it: “What is our business, our gestures, our likeness, our acting, our voices? That’s what we’re selling. That’s who...

 Christopher Grobe Why I'm not afraid of chat gpt (And I’m not even talking about the human intelligence coded into ChatGPT by the writers whose words have been fed into its language model or by the “ghost workers” who helped tag and train its data.)  Then, it couches every claim in ambiguous hedge words like “most,” “often,” “many,” and “some,” which ask the reader to do the writer’s work by deciding for themselves how limited or broad each claim was actually meant to be. When prodded to cite specific evidence, it supplies a slightly narrower generalization. Even when supplied with specific evidence relevant to its arguments, it cannot do the work of connecting the one to the other. That’s because it is not actually dealing with facts about the world, but with the proximity of various clusters of words in a hugely multidimensional language model. It can endlessly move through the layers of that model and around each layer’s clusters of keywords, but it cannot get...