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cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/20604499 On an evening in late January, Emily was driving through her Minneapolis neighborhood doing something that had become part of her routine in recent weeks: patrolling for ICE. Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. “And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car,” she says. Emily says she decided to leave at that point, but the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver’s side window. A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/41985603

Sam Altman says “the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety.”

Not 24 hours ago, he seemed to back Anthropic “supporting our warfighters” as long as two “red lines” weren’t crossed, though his tepid support was laden with five instances of “I think” and one “mostly.”

The two “red lines” in question:

• Domestic mass surveillance
  (presumably, foreign mass surveillance is ok)
• Autonomous weapons
  (likely because they would be held legally liable for misfires)

Selections so you don’t have to click through: I’m proud to announce that we’ve raised $61 million from top investors like A* and Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate our work in building America’s privacy-focused mobile service. At Palantir, where I started in technical roles more than 10 years ago, I learned about a wide array of vulnerabilities in the cellular network that present a threat not only to mission-focused organizations in government, but also to everyday people. I came to see mobile phones — and the networks that power them — as perhaps the largest risks to our privacy and security. If you told Americans twenty years ago that corporations and governments would conspire to attach powerful tracking devices to nearly every adult worldwide, it would’ve sounded like science fiction. And yet, that’s not far from where we are today. From Hacker News comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145255

Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician.” “In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”