“Representations of female artificial intelligences, it seems, emphasize their sexuality even when they are disembodied” in this essay I will…
Devlin, Kate, and Olivia Belton (2020), 'The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction' academic.oup.com/book/36637/cha…

In light of the GPT-4o demos launched yesterday, I thought I would post an article I wrote back in 2018/19 (when Google had just launched Duplex). You can access the text here tinyurl.com/3epdze4r or via Thesis Eleven

A must read thread for everyone involved in AI👇a few minutes reading to untie many of the knots in understanding AI and untangling AI hype.

What I find fascinating is that there is no consideration given to how humans forge connections; that sometimes you need the bumpy, uncomfortable, human-to-human messiness to develop deeper relationships. But that doesn't cash out I guess ...

L'IA promettait de rendre la guerre + humaine et les frappes + précises ! Elle pousse plutôt à l'utiliser à grande échelle et accroît la violence explique Elke Schwarz : vox.com/future-perfect…

If you want to understand some of the most fundamental issues with AI in war, this interview with ⁦Elke Schwarz⁩ nails them with remarkable clarity. vox.com/future-perfect…

.Sigal Samuel's conversation with Elke Schwarz on Israel's AI warfare in Gaza is so interesting & packed with insight: 'The incentives are to use the systems at large scale and in ways that expand violence rather than contract it.'

vox.com/future-perfect…

“The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.” theguardian.com/environment/ng…

🚨A huge thanks to Antoine Bousquet, Elke Schwarz and dr ingvild bode for thought-provoking talks on the history, ethics and governance of #militaryAI to a large audience of academics and military decision-makers Forsvarsakademiet The AutoNorms Project CWS - War Studies Försvarshögskolan Queen Mary University of London Forsvaret

Thank you Daniel Møller Ølgaard for the invitation and for putting together such a stimulating event. A fitting end for a week of thinking intensely about military AI and autonomous weapon systems.

'the potential for our liquidation is the very principle on which we build our devices. We strive for products that don't need our presence [...] and could function without us with ease, devices by which we are rendered superfluous, by which we liquidate ourselves' Anders 1972.

The violent illustration of literally crushing expressions of human creativity is certainly a choice here, Apple ...

A question for the international law experts here: a defence contractor who is shown to have contributed substantively to the unlawful targeting of civilians, can they be held to account? Are there any precedent cases?

I can get behind this statement from the German Computer Scientists Forum for Peace and Social Responsibility calling for 'the practice of targeted killing with supporting AI systems to be classified as a war crime'. Original statement [de] blog.fiff.de/warnung-senkun…

An ‘evacuation’ presupposes a safe place to go. Otherwise it’s just a forced displacement. #Rafah

Gary Marcus Jane Rosenzweig I’d turn to all embedded prophetic and messianic tools and tricks these guys use, 👉🏻 vox.com/the-highlight/…
And other amazing work by Elke Schwarz

Great insights from Elke Schwarz, discussing the human actions that AI systems will increasingly enable and foreclose.

'There's real consensus and urgency for a treaty and even what the content of what that treaty is going to be... the drafting of that treaty is a golden opportunity to reconsider and recapture authentic int'l law in the war and peace area.' - Mary Ellen O'Connell

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