Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

The next dominoes in the AI bubble that I expect to fall (if you’d excuse the mixed metaphor):

Insurance companies explicitly exclude coverage of any system using AI and any outputs of AI systems.
Lawyers in big companies issue advice that using AI systems is too high risk.
Big companies demand IT suppliers provide an enterprise-management system switch to disable all AI functionality in products, or provide an AI-free version.

The first is starting. A consortium of insurance companies has asked their regulator to approve this blanket exclusion. Their argument is that the risks of these systems are too unpredictable to be able to insure. They can’t reason about systemic or correlated risk if you add a bullshit generator anywhere in an operational flow.

The second has happened in a few places, but is not widespread. Some places are hedging. When I was at MS, the AI policy was basically: ‘look, we give you all of these shiny toys! Please use them! By the way, you accept all legal liability for their output! Have fun!’. One ruling that this kind of passing-the-blame-to-employees-for-correctly-using-company-provided-tools policy is unenforceable and the lawyers will get very nervous.

The third is a consequence of the first two. If your lawyers tell you something is high risk and you can’t buy insurance, you want to make sure it isn’t used.

@KrissyKat They all have their fetish. Bush liked torturing people at black sites, Obama like drone striking weddings, Biden swooned over genocide, while Trump likes blowing up fishing boats. Every president has their favorite war crime.

Release the files.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lvk3oansdk2u

Ironic. Were it not for Bidenomics fixng the economy, the Trump economic disaster might have reached bottom already. The same pattern repeats over and over. The GOP siphon drains the public stores to enrich billionaires. Dems get the stores replenished. The GOP siphons them. Repeat.

Paul Krugman:

"So basically Trump has backed down in his confrontation with China. If this was a trade war, China won.

This whole confrontation has been a demonstration of Chinese strength and American weakness. Add in the way that Trump has alienated our allies, and it seems fair to say that America is no longer the world’s leading power.

You might say that he ceded the future to China in return for a hill of (soy)beans."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-number-two
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@JackTheCat I keep getting those addressed to the "current occupier". I don't occupy a current and don't have a telly so they go straight in the bin unopened.

@soulkhan

we're governed by monsters who
would rather live as the last person
atop a mountain of skulls than build a
safe, equal, and dignified world for all. i
am exhausted by this shit

amazon and azure having massive outages a week apart is inauspicious and the fact that they’re both companies going all-in on replacing expertise with chat bots is conspicuous

It is fucking shameful that Keir Starmer just told Labour MPs they could not vote against Farage’s bill aiming to remove the UK from the ECHR.
#ukpolitics

There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”

Disability is dynamic

Some disabilities are invisible. Some change day to day

You won’t always know a person is disabled unless they tell you

It’s a minority group you can join at any time, not a moral failing.

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