so many cool events and initiatives happening across the US. shame that setting foot in that country is a massive risk for people like me so i'll just be watching from afar

I think some papers in AIES need to read this work.

Are these the same people who are against violence in video games or is that respectful because the video games' NPCs (or their friends characters) are designed to be able to be shot at or whatever and so they like violence in video games? What do we think?

if we want to treat ai systems with respect because it is a good thing to do (not because ai systems have feelings), that says all about the norms we want to cultivate as a society and *nothing* about rights ai systems require because of feelings, capabilities or whatever

Until they stop dehumanizing humans, I don’t think they should be allowed to “humanize” their poorly performing profit puppets. 🪔📣

The OP has the right to limit us from continuing this thread of course, but I feel there's value in questioning why well studied "pain" can be so freely given away (e.g. described merely as a pattern) and flattened (e.g. doesn't require nerves) by AI adjacent scholars. Pain has a storied history.

Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"

thank you! developing a policy has been critical for the lab as it guides research internally. once we had clarity on where we stood, we thought it could be helpful for others so we ended up making this public facing version

Is replicability still relevant in 2026?

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From the plundering of other people's work, to defacing shared community resources like Wikipedia in order to replace them with walled gardens with paid access, to forcing everyone to invest in more cybersecurity, the latest developments in AI have been one endless attack on the Digital Commons.

This parroting of tech ceos reminds of the mindless quoting of populist leaders when they rant disinformation about immigrants. I jokingly called this big tech populism

that's so nice to hear. thank you