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Quick Link: Surveillance AI as an export

Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI is an interesting paper from a group of economists from MIT, Harvard,…

New short story: “The Thin Dotted Line”

The job comes with three perks: an NSA-proof new identity, the highest database access privileges a civilian other than the…

New short story: “Battlefield Conversion”

We killed Joan — our Joan, our leader, so brave on Monday when the cops took her — the Friday…

The distracted geopolitics of stochastic parrots

The EU, as reported by Wired, is getting increasingly enthusiastic-slash nervous about making their own AI, or at least their…

New short story: “Illusion of Choice”

Some people see unfathomable fractal beauty on every square degree of their vision. Others see targets and enemies on a…

New short story: “Restorative Justice”

It takes longer every morning to recognize yourself in the mirror. The court-mandated therapist says it’s all in your imagination….

Quick link: “Genesis-DB: a database for autonomous laboratory systems”

The link: Genesis-DB: a database for autonomous laboratory systems. The pitch: An example of a database engineered specifically for large-scale…

New short story: “Solution Space”

Humankind knows of twelve different engineered metaviruses of species- or civilization-ending potential. It was seven just a year ago. If…

New short story: “Romantic Chemistry”

Your brother had been right after all: two biochemistry geniuses in the same marriage was one biochemistry genius too much….

Quick link: just because you’re superhuman it doesn’t mean you get to be inconsistent

Here’s a paper (and repo) from the SPY Lab at ETH Zürich with a clever approach at evaluating superhuman AI…