Ryan Calo
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I hear the Russians have footage of Obama playing basketball and fixing the economy.
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Maybe we should announce a bailout of the airlines and then keep delaying it until finally we cancel and give them hotel vouchers.
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The scandal no one is talking about is how Space Force missed the giant laser aimed at California.
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You may be wondering: why are some of the very people who develop and deploy artificial intelligence sounding the alarm about it's existential threat? Consider two reasons--
We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI.
Signatories include:
- Three Turing Award winners
- Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL
- CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic
- Many more
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There are some dark patterns out there but placing a hair on the screen to get the user to swipe is next level
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Former NYPD police investigator, now law professor. Officers may not cover their names or badge numbers. Make a note of any numbers on equipment and nearby squad cars and file public records requests for vehicle and body camera video.
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The second is to try to convince everyone that AI is very, very powerful. So powerful that it could threaten humanity! They want you to think we’ve split the atom again, when in fact they’re using human training data to guess words or pixels or sounds.
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If AI threatens humanity, it’s by accelerating existing trends of wealth and income inequality, lack of integrity in information, & exploiting natural resources. Think
@GreatDismal
’s jackpot, not Skynet. I agree with the simple statement to this degree.
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I just heard something so chilling, and yet plenty familiar to privacy advocates—that the Taliban has seized American biometric and facial recognition equipment, which it could use to identify U.S. collaborators.
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The first reason is to focus the public’s attention on a far fetched scenario that doesn’t require much change to their business models. Addressing the immediate impacts of AI on labor, privacy, or the environment is costly. Protecting against AI somehow “waking up” is not.
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Don’t let anyone tell you we need new surveillance tools or powers to prevent the next insurrection. The problem has always been one of priorities, not technology or law. We have to track these folks down all over the country because *they weren’t arrested at the scene*
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I think Harvard and MIT get a lot of credit for shit they don't deserve but how about a round of applause for staring down this xenophobic administration. Kudos. 👏👏👏
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Woah, woah, WOAH. An official
@FTC
blog post by a staff attorney noting that "The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. That would include the sale or use of – for example – racially biased algorithms."
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Apparently job candidates are including the text of the job description in small, white font at the end of their resume to trick the algorithm 😳
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I get that many of these folks hold a sincere, good faith belief. But ask yourself how plausible it is. And whether it's worth investing time, attention, and resources that could be used to address privacy, bias, environmental impacts, labor impacts, that are actually occurring.
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We need to stop investors from gaming the market. I propose a new federal initiative called "GameStop." I will not be taking questions or reading replies.
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It's been decades, but it's time to revisit space law's accounting of the public interest. This company and others are putting hundreds of objects into orbit that will obscure the stars and become debris.
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What sorts of crimes lead to house arrest? Might as well do one of those
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God is dead. - Nietzche, 1883
Nietzche is dead. - God, 1900
Everyone is dead. - Facebook, 2016
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Was thinking about all the people behind quarantine trends and it struck me
"Influenzers"
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This is what robots and AI are for, btw. Using well understood applications to make progress in areas of clear need. Instead we try to curb crime with bs predictive algorithms and use bomb robots to kill suspects.
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800 scientists signed a letter saying we should abandon statistical significance. But as they represent fewer than 5% of all scientists, we can safely ignore them.
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I don't think we should store data on children. They're small and won't hold still. It's better to store data on computer servers.
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Pfizer vaccine 100% effective in adolescents ages 12-15. There are side effects, however, including moodiness and knowing everything.
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For deeper arguments on these topics, see the work of
@ruha9
,
@Abebab
,
@alondra
,
@katecrawford
,
@FrankPasquale
,
@mer__edith
,
@merbroussard
,
@mutalenkonde
and many others scholars and activists.
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Twitter finally draws a line in the sand: incite a literal insurrection, and you *nearly* cross it.
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Today I and 8 colleagues resigned from the Axon Ethics Advisory Board in the wake of the company's decision to respond to the Uvalde shooting by placing schools under surveillance and weaponizing drones. You can read our statement here.
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In many jurisdictions, it is also a First Amendment violation for police to interfere with you taking pictures or video of them. Should be clearly established for purposes of a Sec. 1983 lawsuit.
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This shit doesn’t work. It. Doesn’t. Work.
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“I ain’t no chatbot” is among the more problematic sentences I’ve read in recent memory. It’s got everything! Questionable racially. Possibly violates California’s bot disclosure law and FTC guidelines. Congrats Meta 😀
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Handy guide of how to refer to artificial intelligence depending on who your audience is
Press: robot
Law review: machine
Non-technical symposium: artificial intelligence
Technical symposium: machine learning
Really technical symposium: statistics
😎
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Look. Robots are going to randomly laugh at you sometimes. It's just their thing. Why do you hate progress??
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If everyone doesn’t start reading my law and technology articles we’re never going to reach nerd immunity
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Critical race theory: American institutions are configured to enforce racial hierarchy.
American institutions:
Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory‘ from Federal Agencies via
@BreitbartNews
This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish!
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A heartbreaking aspect of reading philosophy of technology from the 1970s and 80s is the realization that much academic success today is premised on pretending old, forgotten ideas are exciting and new.
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Historians take note. People are protesting algorithms in the streets.
this is
@bencsmoke
, Huck’s contributing editor, here in parliament square where students are gathering to demonstrate against the controversial a level results that many received last thursday which saw 40% of students marked down from their predicted grades.
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Honestly why do I even bother creating hypotheticals in my robotics law research.
Aerial footage shows the scene in Robbinsville Township, New Jersey, where officials say 24 Amazon workers were hospitalized after a robot accidentally tore a can of bear repellent spray in a warehouse.
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"Public forum" is a free speech term that doesn't apply to private entities and Section 230 (2)(c) specifically says platforms can "restrict access to or availability of material." But what do I know I'm just a law professor at an actual, not pretend university.
Section 230 requires that platforms like Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Twitter promote a "true diversity of political discourse."
Are they really living up to that standard? WATCH👇
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I didn't realize judges could get coronavirus. I thought they had absolute immunity.
!!Barrett already *had* tested positive for COVID-19 this summer:
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I'm beyond excited to share a new book from the
@TechPolicyLab
. Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence is a collection of short stories from around the world on the social and cultural impacts of AI.
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emolument af
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#TrumpPence
logo depicts intercourse, abbreviates toilet paper, and invokes White Supremacism. All at once.
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Apps that purport to track people infected with COVID-19 are a terrible idea imo for several reasons. Here are five:
1. In areas of low adoption, they will give people a false sense of security and could interfere with critical social distancing measures.
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I investigated allegations of police misconduct against the NYPD for almost three years. Now I’m a privacy and tort law expert but I’m not barred and this isn’t legal advice (though it’s an accurate statement of law). Stay safe out there everyone.
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Episode 65 | Subjecting Minimum Wage Workers To Psychopaths
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I'm so confused about how removing mailboxes on purpose to prevent voting isn't a violation of all the laws.
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There have been any number of inadvertently ironic declarations of solidarity by corporations but this one truly takes the 🎂
Black lives matter.
You are not alone.
Everyone should feel safe in their neighborhood.
Reach out. Listen. Take action.
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Okay this is a *wild* AI case. A Canadian court forced Air Canada to honor a retroactive bereavement policy that a chat bot *made up*
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Astonishing. Daniel Kahneman throws out his whole talk to spontaneously clarify that system 1 and system 2 don't correlate to machine learning and symbolic systems in artificial intelligence.
#AIdebate2
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Lawyers keep using AI to write briefs, keep getting sanctioned when AI makes stuff up. 🤦
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I knew it would be reassuring to see Biden in the Oval Office but it really is SO reassuring.
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If true this is on par with Volkswagen emissions. Companies cannot be allowed to hide crimes in code.
designing the autopilot program to shut off less than a second before impact so your company can deny it was the cause of the impact is simply epic
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Imagine an op ed about particle physics confused neutrons and electrons.
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A student artist in my class is representing torts as decorative masks. This is intentional infliction of emotional distress. How amazing 💜
@UWSchoolofLaw
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I have not been as professionally reliable as I aspire this year. I’ve backed out of obligations, missed deadlines, failed to read & comment on drafts. If you’ve been on the wrong end of this, I’m truly sorry. As if you need the headache either in these difficult times 😞
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AND: "But keep in mind that if you don’t hold yourself accountable, the FTC may do it for you. For example, if your algorithm results in credit discrimination against a protected class, you could find yourself facing a complaint alleging violations of the FTC Act and ECOA."
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My new essay on what the field of law & technology can (and can’t) learn from science & technology studies (STS)
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By “A robot wrote this entire article,” we mean we wrote a prompt and then stitched together a response from eight outputs, which were based on a model trained on writing by real people.
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@mmitchell_ai
I'm so sorry about your experience, and so very excited for the institution that is smart and lucky enough to hire you next.
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I’m disgusted by this.
@FAANews
can you please at least open a proceeding so the public can comment on turning the night sky into a billboard?
The sky over New York tonight!
A feat by our team - it’s one thing to get some drones, but another to coordinate with the FAA and the many other local and national regulators and get all the permits and follow all the protocols and look out for wildlife and the environment and
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1. why is Eminem performing a 2002 song at the 2020 Oscars
2. why does he look like me now
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The rumors are true. My faculty voted me tenure. 😃
I felt bad making them vote on anything this week. 😕
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Basically, the intelligence community created a haystack and then lost a needle in it. Now arguing for more hay.
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The other 50% having hung up on Pew to stop a kid from microwaving tinfoil.
50% of teleworking parents with children younger than 18 say, since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s been difficult for them to be able to get their work done without interruptions.
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Privacy Law Scholars Conference has dropped Palantir as a sponsor due to the discomfort of many in the community---including among the program committee that selects papers and awards---with the company's practices.
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Many will ridicule this lawsuit. But in my opinion, it’s about time
Kanye West’s campaign missed a filing deadline by 14 seconds and is now waging a legal battle against the state of Wisconsin that hinges on whether or not “the seconds from 5:00:00 to 5:00:59 are inclusive to 5 p.m.”
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Wow no one is at the airport. The line is shorter than a Google ethics board!
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I've worked closely with the
@UW_iSchool
community for some years. This Fall, I will be formally joining the faculty as a quarter cross-appointment. I'll be teaching tech policy and ethics to undergrads and JDs. Thank you for welcoming me onto your world-class faculty 🙏
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When I talk to tech reporters nowadays, especially about emerging technology like AI, I divide my remarks into two categories: (1) problems if it doesn’t work and (2) problems if it works. (1) is more common but (2) scarier.
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I have a new peer-reviewed paper (with six coauthors in four disciplines) analyzing how medium, phrasing of search query, and location of search affect the likelihood of encountering election misinformation on Google.
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That private individuals are briefly going into space is a triumph of what, exactly? Collectivism sent people to *the Moon* 50 years ago.
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“This is a lesson we learned decades ago from economists and game theorists: Once cooperation breaks down, the only play to restore it is tit-for-tat. It’s the only way both sides can learn that neither side wins unless they cooperate.”
Strong piece by Larry Kramer about how to fix SCOTUS:
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COVID apps ➡️ ineffectual, inequitable, privacy invasive
masks ➡️ effective, inexpensive, privacy enhancing
milkshakes ➡️ delicious, fattening, privacy neutral
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The United States is using an algorithm named after a famously tumultuous Roman emperor (developed by a company named after an evil surveillance artifact from Lord of the Rings) to choose COVID-19 vaccination order.
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You know, I didn't think this was possible. Congratulations to all the people---the academics, the activists, the artists---who have pushed back so effectively against facial recognition.
My jaw dropped to the floor when I got this news. Facebook is shutting down the facial recognition system that it introduced more than 10 years ago and deleting the faceprints of 1 billion people:
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The Emmys 😅
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I'll worry about the Robot Apocalypse when I see a robot demo that works on the first try
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