AI’s real Alignment Issue
AI has an alignment issue, but it’s not what you think. Alignment is famously tricky with AI, and one of the things most talked about among AI critics…
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Things don’t look too rosy for AI right now
A few things about the state of AI 2024 that taken together paint a less-than-rosy picture: (1) Ed Zitron makes a case — a pretty compelling one — that…
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The state of election disinformation 2024 is: meh [newsletter]
So… we’re heading towards a major election year. More specifically, a major election year, with something like 50 elections globally, including the US presidential elections and the European…
Big Tech spending in Brussels is insane…
..and by insane, I mean insanely small compared to its impact. LobbyControl and Corporate Europe Observatory just published a great new report on Big Tech lobby spending. And…
Platform Politics
Platforms — the big tech, social media type of platforms — have come to be a central battleground for how we work out public opinion. Which also means:…
Will Europe be able to enforce the new internet regulation frameworks DMA and DSA?
Europe is revamping internet regulation as we know it, with ambitious (if, in some areas, dangerously vague) new rights acts Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act…
A limit of openness: Controlling data flows
Openness has been a founding pillar of the web: open source, open data, free culture all have been driving forces for a thriving internet. Increasingly, we’re seeing the…