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Focused topics on artificial intelligence bioethics by Joseph E. Thornton, M.D

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Author: Joseph Thornton MD

May 27, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by John Torous, MD MBI on Twitter

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John Torous, MD MBI
⁦‪@JohnTorousMD‬⁩
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“Methods for Navigating the Mobile Mental Health App Landscape for Clinical Use” by Darlene King, ⁦‪@JuliaTartaglia‬⁩ et al. explores finding apps (with mindapps.org as one example) and then introducing them into clinical settings. New and free: link.springer.com/article/10.100… pic.twitter.com/buJKGLBAt4
5/27/23, 12:48 PM

Joseph Thornton

May 27, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Hugo Chrost Social brain and music

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Hugo Chrost
⁦‪@chrost_hugo‬⁩
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What happens in the brain when people make music together?

Source: Bar-Ilan University

#neuroscience pic.twitter.com/8owUqBoeoX

5/27/23, 7:03 AM

Joseph Thornton

May 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet. AI case studies

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Ethan Mollick
⁦‪@emollick‬⁩
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The risk of AI can often seem abstract. Here is a way to see them in two tables.

The first is from OpenAI & shows what GPT-4 was capable of before alignment cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.p…

The second is a new paper from the major AI companies on long-term risks arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15324… pic.twitter.com/syOPtBTMG4

5/25/23, 2:25 PM

Joseph Thornton

May 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by AI rules globally

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Smoke-away
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⁦‪@OpenAI‬⁩ “AGI should benefit all of humanity… We are seeking teams from across the world to develop proof-of-concepts for a democratic process that could answer questions about what rules AI systems should follow.”

openai.com/blog/democrati… pic.twitter.com/xDG6Q7uffy

5/25/23, 4:05 PM

Joseph Thornton

May 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by AI extreme risks.

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Ian Hogarth
⁦‪@soundboy‬⁩
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Significant new paper with contributors spanning ARC, Anthropic, DeepMind, Cambridge University, OpenAI and more that proposes an approach for evaluating frontier AI models for extreme risks. Non-exhaustive list of these extreme risks below: arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15324… pic.twitter.com/7mXvsOIGtx
5/25/23, 9:39 AM

Joseph Thornton

May 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Brad Smith Microsoft govern AI

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Brad Smith
⁦‪@BradSmi‬⁩
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AI may be the most consequential technology advance of our lifetime. Today we announced a 5-point blueprint for Governing AI. It addresses current and emerging issues, brings the public and private sector together, and ensures this tool serves all society. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…
5/25/23, 9:37 AM

Joseph Thornton

May 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet. UN urgency. AI governance

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Gary Marcus
⁦‪@GaryMarcus‬⁩
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Remarkable consensus ⁦‪@UNTechEnvoy‬⁩ #GlobalDigitalCompact deep dive on #AI:
• Urgency of the situation
• Need to bridge the global divide
• Need for transparency, accountablility, fairness & protection of privacy
• Need for global coordination in governance of AI pic.twitter.com/xVtuWvgzRx
5/25/23, 3:02 PM

Joseph Thornton

May 25, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Smoke-away AI defense strategies

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Smoke-away
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New DeepMind blog discussing ‘An early warning system for novel AI risks’.

“must expand the evaluation portfolio to include the possibility of extreme risks from general-purpose AI models that have strong skills in manipulation, deception, cyber-offense”
deepmind.com/blog/an-early-… pic.twitter.com/dcGlDzLnxz

5/25/23, 12:40 PM

Joseph Thornton

May 25, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Smoke-away Microsoft. Govern. AI

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Smoke-away
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Microsoft has released a blog discussing ‘How do we best govern AI?’

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/… pic.twitter.com/FVt8hE1XGE

5/25/23, 2:11 PM

Joseph Thornton

May 25, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Stanford HAI on aI detectors are biased

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Stanford HAI
⁦‪@StanfordHAI‬⁩
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With the proliferation of AI-generated text, AI detectors are now being used to flag cheating, plagiarism, and misinformation. But a Stanford study reveals a very big problem: these detectors are not reliable and biased against non-native English writers. stanford.io/3MwAFLr
5/25/23, 10:01 AM

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