論説：AIの「意識」論争は何を隠しているか

高度で制御不能だとされるAIに人間が害されたとき、誰が責任を負うのか。AIを「意識を持つ存在」と見なそうとする最近の議論は、それを生み出した企業が、有害な製品への責任を回避する助けになりかねない——本稿の著者はそう警告する。

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.

Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers

A UN report warns of the rapid growth in AI energy consumption, but suggests users can improve efficiency by making prompts more concise

AI企業は、人間の認知プロセスにちなんだ機能名を付けるのをやめるべきだ

Anthropicは開発者向けカンファレンスで、AIエージェントが「記憶」を整理するための「Dreaming」機能を発表した。AIを人間になぞらえた表現は、人々のAIに対する判断をゆがめかねない。

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Your Software Is Not Sentient

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

Anthropomorphism in AI: hype and fallacy

This essay focuses on anthropomorphism as both a form of hype and fallacy. As a form of hype, anthropomorphism is shown to exaggerate AI capabilities and performance by attributing human-like traits to systems that do not possess them. As a fallacy, anthropomorphism is shown to distort moral judgments about AI, such as those concerning its moral character and status, as well as judgments of responsibility and trust. By focusing on these two dimensions of anthropomorphism in AI, the essay highlights negative ethical consequences of the phenomenon in this field.

I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?

Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tasks. These intermediate tokens have been called \say{reasoning traces} or even \say{thoughts} -- implicitly anthropomorphizing the traces, and implying that these traces resemble steps a human might take when solving a challenging problem, and as such can provide an interpretable window into the operation of the model's thinking process to the end user. In this position paper, we present evidence that this anthropomorphization isn't a harmless metaphor, and instead is quite dangerous -- it confuses the nature of these models and how to use them effectively, and leads to questionable research. We call on the community to avoid such anthropomorphization of intermediate tokens.

The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot

New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?

Anthropomorphism Is Breaking Our Ability to Judge AI

Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball asks, how should we interact with a technology designed to ‘speak’ with us on what appear to be human terms?

Bernie Sanders “Interviewed” A Chatbot To Expose AI’s Secrets. It Has No Secrets. It Just Agrees With You.

Senator Bernie Sanders has a viral video making the rounds in which he “interviews” Anthropic’s Claude chatbot about the dangers of AI and privacy. It has over two million views. …

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

Over the past week, Reuters, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, CNBC, and a parade of other outlets published headlines claiming that Grok—Elon Musk’s LLM chatbot (the one that once referred to itsel…

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

Letting the unreliable Grok be its own "spokesperson" lets xAI off the hook.

An Alarming Number of Gen Z AI Users Think It's Conscious

The majority of young people use AI, and they try to be polite when interacting with chatbots like ChatGPT, but some might have too much of an attachment to it, according to a new study.

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