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“From inside a frontier AI lab, we confront the most significant challenges about how powerful AI will impact the world around us.. The Anthropic Institute exists to understand and shape the consequences of powerful AI systems. We focus on the urgent questions that will determine whether these systems deliver the radical upsides that we believe …
Follow-up to FJC – Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence Censored, See Also Ars Technica – “Judges are frequently confronted with cases that hinge upon scientific information that their educational backgrounds may leave them ill-equipped to manage. Because of this challenge, the Federal Judicial Center, a group within the judicial branch of the government, has collaborated …
Inside Climate News: Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major polluters from legal accountability for climate change harms. Republican lawmakers in multiple states and Congress are advancing proposals to shield polluters from climate accountability and prevent any type of liability for climate change harms—even as these harms and their associated costs continue to …
EWG: “Thousands of everyday food products potentially could contain substances that carry unknown health risks, a new EWG analysis finds. Although Congress intended for most food chemicals to be rigorously reviewed before being introduced into the market, the reality of food chemical review is far different. A flood of unregulated and potentially unsafe substances have …
MakeUseOf: “I’ll be honest: I’m not thrilled about the fact that anything I’ve ever written — especially the whip-smart comments on questionable Subreddits — has probably been used to train LLMs. There’s little I can do to change that. Copyright laws are tipped in favor of AI companies because, so far, the onus is on …
This live stream is showing a stork nest at Knepp Rewilding Project in Sussex – White Storks part of the project are ringed with blue plastic darvic rings on the left leg and metal BTO rings on the right ankle. Up until very recently, the birds on this nest have been known as Ania and …
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 [Elizabeth Ginexi, Formerly an NIH Program Official for 22 years]- “For decades, the National Institutes of Health published between 650 and 850 Notices of Funding Opportunities each year. These announcements tell the research community which diseases need study, which populations …
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IEEE Spectrum: “Some of the world’s largest companies with the biggest supply chains—including Walmart, the global shipping giant Maersk, and the telecom servicer Vodafone—are now using bots powered by artificial intelligence to negotiate and maintain supplier contracts. That these sophisticated AI systems were designed and built by a startup in Estonia is interesting; it’s even …
The Verge – “On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it used their copyrighted content to train its AI, then generated responses that were “substantially similar” to their content, as previously reported by Reuters. According to Britannica, OpenAI repeatedly copied its content without permission, stating, “GPT-4 itself …
