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David Evan Harris, the author from a prominent UC Berkeley advisory position .. " previously worked as a research manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) on the res

David Evan Harris, the author from a prominent UC Berkeley advisory position .. " previously worked as a research manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) on the responsible AI, civic integrity, and social impact teams, and was recently named to Business Insider’s AI 100 list for his work on AI governance, fairness, and misinformation." There are new winners and new losers, and the politics are happening in real time, right now. Everything is OK if OpenAI / Meta runs it? whose safety?

palmfacehn 3y ago
Full bio from the site: >David Evan Harris is a chancellor's public scholar at UC Berkeley, senior research fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, senior advisor for AI and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, and visiting fellow at the Integrity Institute. He previously worked as a research manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) on the responsible AI, civic integrity, and social impact teams, and was recently named to Business Insider’s AI 100 list for his work on AI governance, fairness, and misinformation.
RagnarD 3y ago
Power lusters - in DC or in big tech - are drooling over the capabilities of AI. The last thing they want is for their targets to have access to unrestricted systems that could act defensively against their AI assisted goals.
- jprete 3y ago
  This is why none of this should have been invented.
rst 3y ago
It was Meta that released llama -- a move which Harris specifically cites as irresponsible and dangerous. So he's certainly not writing in support of them -- rather the opposite. There are plenty of reasons to disagree (Steve Bannon's ilk didn't need AI to "flood the zone with shit", they used Meta to do it, and it's really not obvious that AI increases the threat), but he's not writing propaganda for Meta.

palmfacehn 3y ago

Full bio from the site: >David Evan Harris is a chancellor's public scholar at UC Berkeley, senior research fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, senior advisor for AI and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, and visiting fellow at the Integrity Institute. He previously worked as a research manager at Meta (formerly Facebook) on the responsible AI, civic integrity, and social impact teams, and was recently named to Business Insider’s AI 100 list for his work on AI governance, fairness, and misinformation.

RagnarD 3y ago

Power lusters - in DC or in big tech - are drooling over the capabilities of AI. The last thing they want is for their targets to have access to unrestricted systems that could act defensively against their AI assisted goals.

jprete 3y ago
This is why none of this should have been invented.

rst 3y ago

It was Meta that released llama -- a move which Harris specifically cites as irresponsible and dangerous. So he's certainly not writing in support of them -- rather the opposite. There are plenty of reasons to disagree (Steve Bannon's ilk didn't need AI to "flood the zone with shit", they used Meta to do it, and it's really not obvious that AI increases the threat), but he's not writing propaganda for Meta.