IEET

The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is an international nonprofit technoprogressive think tank. @IEET on Substack, Bsky, Facebook, LinkedIn

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

At major tech companies, a growing rank of philosophers with Ph.D.s and flush compensation packages are helping shape the technology’s future, @LilaShroff reports. https://t.co/syHOiPK2Lo

[The Verge @verge]

AI leaders call for tougher protections against AI-aided bioweapons https://t.co/kS2ZHUopsq

[Gerd Leonhard @gleonhard]

“If we want an A.I. that serves the public good, we need to define the public goods that A.I. can serve and create the conditions under which A.I. can be useful.” https://t.co/aw1lgBPkUP

[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

The world today is characterized by large-scale inequalities. And a climate crisis is looming over us.

We urgently need a new vision for global progress in the 21st Century. One that grounds human development and equality in planetary habitability.

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries?

The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport.
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[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://t.co/BlvYtM2WCQ

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met Wednesday evening, at Altman’s request, to discuss the senator’s proposal to transfer a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America to the public. This meeting comes as the AI lobby has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into primary elections across the country.

As both men left the meeting, Drop Site’s @JulianAndreone asked Altman whether it is ethical to pay legalized bribes to politicians whose intended purpose is to represent working-class constituents.

Andreone then asked Sanders how it is possible to discuss in good faith with a person who is bribing lawmakers on their side of each relevant issue.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Commentators are pinning low fertility rates on everything from feminism to smartphones.

But they miss one glaring factor: capitalism, an economic system predicated on individual autonomy and naked self-interest whose incentives run counter to child-rearing. https://t.co/B4adNpciaW

[John Nosta @JohnNosta]

@Quillette @SeanGWelsh Could it be the Dawkins Illusion Curve?

[Chris Ferguson 🇺🇸🎇🎆 @CJFerguson1111]

Proponents of #socialmedia bans for teens suggest that teens themselves want them. A new study addresses this directly. Do young adults regret the time they spent on social media as teens. And does that regret influence their current #mental health?

Have a read!

(link to follow)

[Basic Income Earth @BasicIncomeOrg]

A new collection of articles examining the ethical, political, and philosophical foundations of UBI. They check both longstanding philosophical debates and emerging challenges posed by automation, artificial intelligence, and economic precarity https://t.co/0pEJMWTe6Q

[James Hughes @citizencyborg]

Piketty et al propose a world sovereign fund holding 10% of the world capital stock, a global wealth tax rising to 20% a year on billionaires and a global income tax rising to 90% at the very top.

Global Justice Report: https://t.co/oy68eTswX4

[IEET @IEET]

Live from Cambridge: AI and Existential Risk
Nir and J dig into existential risk at Long Now Boston. J takes catastrophic AI outcomes seriously, even absent consciousness, while Nir worries about the erosion of what makes us distinctively human.
https://t.co/VoWSGGRTK8

[IEET @IEET]

Recent JEET topics include:
• AI companions & intimacy
• Digital human dignity
• Misinformation & democracy
• Whole-brain emulation
Browse the archive 👇
🔗 https://t.co/KgZlNzwIzu
#AIcompanions #DigitalEthics #Democracy

[IEET @IEET]

Anthropic's new "AI & Rule of Law" team to work on: AI safety evaluations with a legal alignment lens; institutional vulnerability analysis; novel legal issues in frontier AI; and applications that bolster democratic processes. https://t.co/IEsnTeYbIO

[IEET @IEET]

Americans are more resistant to AI than people in almost any other part of the world. But in countries such as China and South Korea, where AI is also expanding rapidly, a majority of people view it as a positive tool that will spur economic growth. https://t.co/EvLR5tx4rE

[IEET @IEET]

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: "Politics, Religion, and Variants of Transhumanism." Transhumanism is much more than a technological utopia-it has become an influential philosophy among global decision-makers.

https://t.co/z7tNqP4Xh7

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“If AI quickly eliminates white-collar work, the country is going to end up in something much stranger than a downturn, and something much harder to recover from too,” @AnnieLowrey wrote in February: https://t.co/sW8j6Pnn7p

🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Dreamstime.

[IEET @IEET]

China's Palantir: A Chinese company has been trying to develop AI to enable authoritarian governments to not just monitor dissidents but also potentially predict who could become one in the future. https://t.co/mMBf9D2Fj9

[IEET @IEET]

Brain data is not like other data. What norms, laws, and institutions should govern BCIs? Join the conversation June 5–6.
Register: https://t.co/U64mxb3gen @citizencyborg

[IEET @IEET]

AI companies (like OpenAI and Anthropic) are quietly paying influencers thousands of dollars to promote AI doomsday scenarios. https://t.co/lsqYEyHXTO