Meredith Whittaker
@mer__edith
President of @signalapp, Chief Advisor to @ainowinstitute (Also on Mastodon @[email protected], also on bsky @meredithmeredith.bsky.social)
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https://signal.org/ 13-05-2014 12:39:44
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Meredith Whittaker is on point, as always!
For #4, I'd add complete accounting of environmental costs (carbon, water, rare earth mining) for all @openai projects, including both research, training & deployed use.
Y'all wanna call yourselves 'open'? Earn it.
Partial list:
1. Transparency about what is actually in OAI models/datasets (ht Stella Biderman)
2. Azure cloud contract transparency--who's licensing GPT, for what use, how much $
3. Transparency on training/calibration (RLHF etc) costs, w details on labor process + worker pay
Honoured and humbled to be among the authors (Steph Dick, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn & Richard Staley) of this introductory essay exploring 'Histories of artificial intelligence: a genealogy of power' | BJHS Themes | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3GSnK3R
it's the last POLITICO Digital Future Daily of 2023, featuring this year's interviews with Kent Walker, Fei-Fei Li, Katherine Boyle, Meredith Whittaker, Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸, Adam Thierer, and more: politico.com/newsletters/di…
Had a great time chatting about my work with Amanda Parsons on data and how it produces value (and power) !
Follow Namrata Maheshwari and keep an eye on this space in the new year. Disturbing anti-privacy legislation has not, sadly, slowed down. 👇
Strong, much-needed statement from House Science Committee to National Institute of Standards and Technology on the lack of rigor surrounding many recent claims about ‘AI safety’, and the danger of basing policy and standards on research that is speculative and methodologically unsound: science.house.gov/press-releases…
So excited to have written my first article for The Nation. Reporting on book bans’ impact in my local area of Kentucky & the incredible student organizing efforts pushing back against them has been so meaningful. I’m so grateful. Check it out: