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🇮🇳 निरभव: 💫 निरवैर 🔱
📸 Visual Artist | Old Soul

[John Nosta @JohnNosta]

🚨 AI isn't just changing what we know. It may be changing how we think, how we connect, and ultimately who we become.

The Surrender Triad and Artificial Intelligence

📌Cognitive Surrender
📌Emotional Surrender
📌Existential Surender

[Alberta Tech @albertadevs]

BREAKING: CEO discovers tokens cost money

[John Nosta @JohnNosta]

🚨The real danger may not be conscious AI. It may be unconscious AI that persuades us to become less conscious of our own thinking.

👉The Mythology of Conscious AI by @anilkseth.

https://t.co/kTxDjczbZk https://t.co/ysAPZgHk5S

#AI @NoemaMag

[Janhavi Jain | Building SKIPD @janwhyy]

The Delhi High Court just ruled against Google in a trademark case that every Indian founder needs to know about!!

Hindware sued because searches for "Hindware" returned competitor ads - Cera, Grohe, above their own listing. Customers looking specifically for Hindware were being intercepted at the moment of highest intent.

The court ruled it trademark infringement. Competitor keyword bidding on your brand name is now legally actionable in India.

Search your brand name on Google right now.

If a competitor's ad appears before yours, you have a case, and your competitor has a problem.

This reshapes performance marketing in India. Keyword bidding on competitor names is standard practice across every category - beauty, fintech, edtech, D2C.

The brands doing it most aggressively are also the ones most exposed to this ruling. Let's see how this pans out.

[The Brookings Institution @BrookingsInst]

When kids use AI to complete schoolwork, they're not offloading skills they already have—they're skipping the process of developing them. Rebecca Winthrop makes the case for treating this as "cognitive stunting" and what it means for policy. https://t.co/peT9Wm02FN

[Deep @Deepdivinity]

Exclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America https://t.co/DAks3X7zPy

[TeachPrivacy @TeachPrivacy]

The rapid rise of chatbots has brought about complex legal and ethical challenges. We're seeing tragic cases emerge from interactions with AI, including instances of suicide and drug overdoses. #AIChatbot #LegalTech #AIethics

[amity☊ @Zodi_Am]

The Taurus New Moon is today.

This New Moon is going to collapse anything built on faulty grounds. If the situation doesn’t see your worth, have enough confidence to allow it to collapse!!!

Don’t settle. Don’t take the cheap way out. Don’t put your energy on sale to stay in a comfortable situation.

Keep your standards high and believe in your ability to manifest something better.

[TeachPrivacy @TeachPrivacy]

This book is a wake-up call: Your Data Will Be Used Against You. It's eye-opening, accessible, and filled with concrete stories. A must-read to understand how your data is exploited. #DataPrivacy #Tech

[Kayli Lewis @ MailSPEC @mailspec]

Luiza is right. We can generate convincing text, audio, images, and videos about anyone or anything instantly.
But also... to generate that content, AI systems were trained on billions of pieces of personal data, collected without consent, without disclosure, without any understanding that it would be used to train machines that can now impersonate human beings.
Your words. Your face. Your voice. Your writing style. All of it fed into systems that can now generate convincing content that appears to come from you.
So, we also lost control over the data that makes us unique, and that data is now being used to create machines that can imitate us without our permission.

[TeachPrivacy @TeachPrivacy]

Every smart device is a surveillance tool, providing data to police and prosecutors. We've entered an era of self-surveillance, where our digital footprint reveals intimate details of our lives #Privacy #TechEthics #DigitalFootprint

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Americans are going to extraordinary lengths to get their hands on Indian mangoes. “I literally stop whatever I'm doing.” https://t.co/taauROOH8s

[Deep @Deepdivinity]

@emirates the most pathetic customer support! No update on refund since last 2 months, no reply on email. Rude customer executive officer , no escalation email id, executive refuses to transfer call or connect to any senior manager ! You lost a loyal customer today

[Deep @Deepdivinity]

@emirates Coz you dont refund and hold onto the customer funds , no reply on email or after 5 phone calls...never flying emirates again ever !

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The biggest illusion you live with is that the future can somehow bring you peace. But peace is not in the future—it’s in becoming comfortable with the chaos of the present.

[John Nosta @JohnNosta]

AI isn't stealing your intelligence, you just stopped reaching for it!

AI and the Self You Left Behind

https://t.co/oGG7br0nDT #AI #LLMs #education

[GP @Graham_dePenros]

https://t.co/4Jsi5leGC0

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 Thinking that Claude is conscious, but Alphafold is not, tells us a lot about what the "conscious AI" MYTH is about:

If you are interested in the fascinating debate about human consciousness (and why AI systems are NOT conscious), don't miss @anilkseth's excellent TED Talk (link below).

The image below is a screenshot of one of the explanations he presents.

I personally like his approach to consciousness very much, seeing it as inherently connected to our biological wetware, and opposing "functionalist" views, which belittle our humanhood.

Many people, embracing this functionalist view, seem to think of the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software.

This is a projection. Projecting the universe of computers and algorithms into our biological complexity.

Being alive and conscious is different (and much more) than a matter of computational zeros and ones.

As I wrote in my recent article about Claude's new "constitution," these constant analogies between AI and humans are trying to make us fit into a small computational mould that does not and cannot fit us.

They are also attributing some high, supernatural status to AI, where there is none. It's simply... projection.

As I wrote in the last edition of my newsletter, the "conscious AI" myth is, unfortunately, spreading.

Last week, the renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins seemed to have suggested that Claude (which he calls Claudia) is conscious.

Anthropic is also constantly hyping the possibility of AI consciousness, and, in my opinion, has done that rather irresponsibly in Claude's "constitution," which openly embraces these philosophical possibilities and influences how Claude behaves and interacts with people.

As I wrote last week in my newsletter, believing in conscious AI raises new forms of risk, both individual and collective, and it makes it more difficult to govern and regulate it.

As Seth says in his TED Talk, as humans, we must resist.

I fully agree.

I add that we must fight for the beauty and mystery of biology, life, and finitude.

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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. https://t.co/olH2H7bdor

[John Nosta @JohnNosta]

🚨AI-Proof Your Kids | Psychology Today

https://t.co/imTqLWtTpP