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3 weeks ago | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
Generative AI is AI produced to learn patterns from data, which can also be used to create patterns similar to those in data. ChatGPT and mistral are examples of generative AI. There are many other kinds of AI, for example, search. When I say just "AI" below, I mean all of AI, including but not limited to generative AI. You do not have to use generative AI.
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1 month ago | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
For those who don't know (background)The EU's AI Act includes provisions for getting expert help in describing how to comply with it. These include the publication of a Code of Practice (CoP), which is to pass through four versions, the fourth being "final", though EU legal documents such as these are regularly revisited.
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1 month ago | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
I just realised a possible explanation for why transhumanists and accelerationists often push universal basic income as a solution. It's because they think most people and their possible endeavours aren't really worth anything, and somehow just giving them money is the most humane thing to do. Also, if you suddenly find yourself in a situation where you can't afford to keep everyone alive, you can just cut off the spigot. I realised this because of two things.
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1 month ago | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
Somehow my (new last term!) ethics course was undersubscribed this semester, and I heard about another course, at Hertie School, Geo-Economic & High-Tech Competition. I'd only just started realising that geoeconomics was a field having attend an excellent meeting about it in the German Ministry of Economics last Autumn, and it seemed entirely evident that it was hugely important to understanding how power was flowing around and through AI products and corporations.
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2 months ago | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
History: In 2023, the EU was consolidating its legislation called "The AI Act" (or AI Regulation.) Despite the fact that this is a fairly boring piece of legislation just ensuring that at least some digital products (the ones that may automatically alter human lives) are subject to proper product law , there was a massive amount of lobbying and misinformation.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
Why would Jeff Bezos cancel the The Washington Post's endorsement of Kamala Harris, fully knowing that the cancellation would be a bigger story than any endorsement? My guess: because the (dis)information age is elevating the importance of reliable sources of news. This blogpost expands from several different social media posts, all of which are important.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
History: In 2023, the EU was consolidating its legislation called "The AI Act" (or AI Regulation.) Despite the fact that this is a fairly boring piece of legislation just ensuring that at least some digital products (the ones that may automatically alter human lives) are subject to proper product law , there was a massive amount of lobbying and misinformation.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
History: In 2023, the EU was consolidating its legislation called "The AI Act" (or AI Regulation.) Despite the fact that this is a fairly boring piece of legislation just ensuring that at least some digital products (the ones that may automatically alter human lives) are subject to proper product law , there was a massive amount of lobbying and misinformation.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
Has Facebook hacked Science? I wouldn't call the 2023 Science and Nature studies of Facebook's impacts "a debacle" like this otherwise-excellent overview of the present state of Facebook's play does. That link is to an article in The Conversation by professor Timothy Graham of Queensland. I obviously liked the original studies, as can be seen by the fact I feature them prominently in this blog.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com | Joanna Bryson
Dear potential student, postdoc, or collaborator,thank you for your possible interest in my research. However, from your letter, I cannot tell whether you've ever read one of my papers. If there is something you want from me, you should expect to spend more time on determining and communicating that than I would have to spend on understanding and considering your offer. Please make it evident what papers of mine you have read, and why you think our research interests match.
