Meredith Whittaker

I'm like, I'm like, can someone diagram what a function is? I don't know any of this stuff. Right. Um, but I kind of, I think I have a sensitivity to that. Cause I also, I remember feeling it. I remember people being mean about it.

I'm like, I'm like, can someone diagram what a function is? I don't know any of this stuff. Right. Um, but I kind of, I think I have a sensitivity to that. Cause I also, I remember feeling it. I remember people being mean about it.

Like if I didn't, you know, like back in the day when I was trying to learn this stuff and I think that, you know, a discourse that collapses scientific progress into kind of the success of a handful of tech companies is praise on that type of insecurity and has created an environment in which people have no idea what AI is and are still professing boldly on how to regulate it.

Like if I didn't, you know, like back in the day when I was trying to learn this stuff and I think that, you know, a discourse that collapses scientific progress into kind of the success of a handful of tech companies is praise on that type of insecurity and has created an environment in which people have no idea what AI is and are still professing boldly on how to regulate it.

Like if I didn't, you know, like back in the day when I was trying to learn this stuff and I think that, you know, a discourse that collapses scientific progress into kind of the success of a handful of tech companies is praise on that type of insecurity and has created an environment in which people have no idea what AI is and are still professing boldly on how to regulate it.

I should be clear. I don't think that what I was describing and the politics of intellectual shame are not unique to Europe, but I think are in Europe as well. And particularly folks who feel like, you know, the Americans beat us. We got to get ahead. Right. I think, you know.

I should be clear. I don't think that what I was describing and the politics of intellectual shame are not unique to Europe, but I think are in Europe as well. And particularly folks who feel like, you know, the Americans beat us. We got to get ahead. Right. I think, you know.

I should be clear. I don't think that what I was describing and the politics of intellectual shame are not unique to Europe, but I think are in Europe as well. And particularly folks who feel like, you know, the Americans beat us. We got to get ahead. Right. I think, you know.

Where I see the European position being most, let's say, under-informed or perhaps just in some cases pernicious is in the chat controls regulation and the desire, the apex of magical thinking, which is let's rename a backdoor client-side scanning and then let's mandate...

Where I see the European position being most, let's say, under-informed or perhaps just in some cases pernicious is in the chat controls regulation and the desire, the apex of magical thinking, which is let's rename a backdoor client-side scanning and then let's mandate...

Where I see the European position being most, let's say, under-informed or perhaps just in some cases pernicious is in the chat controls regulation and the desire, the apex of magical thinking, which is let's rename a backdoor client-side scanning and then let's mandate...

Scanning everyone's private messages, comparing what's in those messages against some database of permissible or impermissible content, and then taking action on those in the name of protecting children, which is the justification during this instantiation of the crypto wars.

Scanning everyone's private messages, comparing what's in those messages against some database of permissible or impermissible content, and then taking action on those in the name of protecting children, which is the justification during this instantiation of the crypto wars.

Scanning everyone's private messages, comparing what's in those messages against some database of permissible or impermissible content, and then taking action on those in the name of protecting children, which is the justification during this instantiation of the crypto wars.

Well, I see this as an ongoing power struggle, right?

Well, I see this as an ongoing power struggle, right?

Well, I see this as an ongoing power struggle, right?

Well, between... This is not a misunderstanding. I think a lot of the people pushing for this understand that backdoors are dangerous and understand that the pretext is flimsy. But that asymmetric power constitutes itself in part through information asymmetry.

Well, between... This is not a misunderstanding. I think a lot of the people pushing for this understand that backdoors are dangerous and understand that the pretext is flimsy. But that asymmetric power constitutes itself in part through information asymmetry.

Well, between... This is not a misunderstanding. I think a lot of the people pushing for this understand that backdoors are dangerous and understand that the pretext is flimsy. But that asymmetric power constitutes itself in part through information asymmetry.