“The problem with pushing people to be afraid of #AGI while calling for intervention is that it enables firms like #OpenAI to position themselves as the #responsible tech shepherds – the #benevolent experts here to save us from hypothetical harms, as long as they retain the #power, #money and #market #dominance to do so. Notably, OpenAI’s position on AI governance focuses not on current AI but on some arbitrary point in the future. They welcome regulation, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of anything they’re currently doing.” — Samantha Floreani

#AI / #AGI / #SamanthaFloreani / #DigitalRightsWatch <https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/yes-you-should-be-worried-about-ai-but-matrix-analogies-hide-a-more-insidious-threat>

@dj2mn
"... there has never been a more pressing time to face up to the dangers of a privatised internet and what alternatives might look like. From deep-sea cables to the apps we use every day, the internet as we know it is, by and large, in private hands, serving private interests and nurturing surveillance capitalism. But what if it wasn’t?"

#SamanthaFloreani, 2023

@Oozenet

This is a great read by #TheGuardian journalist #SamanthaFloreani ‘As Twitter burns we must not forget it is people that create social movements, not apps’.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/22/as-twitter-burns-we-must-not-forget-it-is-people-that-create-social-movements-not-apps