The Critical Legacy of Chinese Cybernetics
In Post-War America, cybernetics inspired countercultural visions of wild complexity. Its Chinese legacy, in contrast, is as an applied science of technocratic nation-building. As the world tilts towards new geopolitical priorities, it is this latter legacy that may prove more prophetic.
Cybernetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Philosopher Yuk Hui - Journal #102
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Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes | Stanford HAI
Despite advancements in AI, new research reveals that large language models continue to perpetuate harmful racial biases, particularly against speakers of African American English.
Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis
What Stafford Beer and Dan Davies say and why you need to read them
Cybernetics of cybernetics: the control of control and the communication of communication
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Amy J. Ko : Searching for Justice in Programming Language Design
Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
“The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.”
Stochastic Parrots | Emily M. Bender - Professor of Computational Linguistics
Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI
By Alex Band Over the last year, we have seen the profound effects Large Language Models (LLMs) have on our open-source software work at NLnet Labs. These can be grouped into two main areas: community contributions and security reports. Before we dive into this topic, let me first give
Towards Foundations of Categorical Cybernetics
We propose a categorical framework for processes which interact bidirectionally with both an environment and a 'controller'. Examples include open learners, in which the controller is an optimiser...
Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems
Anthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known.
Cybernetics in the Future - Introduction by Mary Catherine Bateson
