These people shouldn’t make policy.
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
Anthropic asked for AI regulation, but not like this.
Beware of AI Sex Cult In SF and Berkeley
531 votes, 156 comments. Hi, salacious title, I know. I’m linking articles from Time Magazine and the SF Standard And here is a thread with LOTS of…
The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
How AI is exacerbating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls
This paper examines how artificial intelligence is accelerating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls—from deepfakes and automated hate to sextortion, impersonation, and large-scale disinformation. It outlines emerging risks, legal and ethical challenges, and opportunities for prevention, while calling for urgent regulation, safety-by-design, and coordinated global action to ensure that AI technologies advance, rather than undermine, women’s rights and safety.
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
The AI safety movement needs normies
A broader base may be the only way for the AI safety field to get what it wants
AI safety and the data center backlash
Planting a flag for AI safety as a place where we won’t abjectly bullshit you
Safety isn’t safety without a social model (or: dispelling the myth of per se technical safety) — AI Alignment Forum
As an AI researcher who wants to do technical work that helps humanity, there is a strong drive to find a research area that is definitely helpful so…
Further Notes on Rape Culture in AI Social Circles
On the Red Means No rape-roleplay party and how it relates to AI/safetyist culture.
In the US, Caution Rules on AI Ahead of K-12 School Year
Students and teachers across the country are unlikely to find consistent, clear rules about AI use, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo.
AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety
They have ideas about how to restrain wayward models, but worry that doing so will disadvantage them
AI* laws/regulations/safety standards
Specific examples * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
China has cracked down on AI relationships. Is it ahead of the game?
California Leads the Way With New Slate of AI Bills
California enacts laws restricting chatbots and banning teens from ‘addictive’ social media
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法務省：肖像、声等の無断利用による民事責任の在り方に関する検討会
声も「人格の象徴」明記、法務省 AI偽動画公開は権利侵害 | NEWSjp
