Meredith Whittaker

I do think that there's a model there. I think I'm interested right now in researching hybrid structures and tandem structures. Are there sort of for-profit structures Areas of tech that aren't, you know, driven by kind of, you know, like surveillance?

Are there ways you could fund nonprofits, fund some of this core infrastructure, these, you know, libraries and other things that have been languishing for decades? You know, how do you sort of revitalize that? And then are there, you know, are they ways to build truly independent infrastructure outside of the, you know? three companies, five platforms model.

Are there ways you could fund nonprofits, fund some of this core infrastructure, these, you know, libraries and other things that have been languishing for decades? You know, how do you sort of revitalize that? And then are there, you know, are they ways to build truly independent infrastructure outside of the, you know? three companies, five platforms model.

Are there ways you could fund nonprofits, fund some of this core infrastructure, these, you know, libraries and other things that have been languishing for decades? You know, how do you sort of revitalize that? And then are there, you know, are they ways to build truly independent infrastructure outside of the, you know? three companies, five platforms model.

I think it's just clearly critically dangerous at this point.

I think it's just clearly critically dangerous at this point.

I think it's just clearly critically dangerous at this point.

Well, I think my answer to that is that that future will rely on laying an independent infrastructural bedrock and actually transforming some of the way we govern and think about digital technology generally, including being really attentive to things like how is data created? Who gets to decide what data we use to reflect our complex lives and realities? Who gets to decide

Well, I think my answer to that is that that future will rely on laying an independent infrastructural bedrock and actually transforming some of the way we govern and think about digital technology generally, including being really attentive to things like how is data created? Who gets to decide what data we use to reflect our complex lives and realities? Who gets to decide

Well, I think my answer to that is that that future will rely on laying an independent infrastructural bedrock and actually transforming some of the way we govern and think about digital technology generally, including being really attentive to things like how is data created? Who gets to decide what data we use to reflect our complex lives and realities? Who gets to decide

how patterns in that data are made sense of, what analysis is done to that data, and then what we do with the sense we make of it, right? What decisions we make, right? And so, you know, we do all that, we transform what AI is and what it means. Because no longer, you're no longer just scraping all the detritus off the stupid web.

how patterns in that data are made sense of, what analysis is done to that data, and then what we do with the sense we make of it, right? What decisions we make, right? And so, you know, we do all that, we transform what AI is and what it means. Because no longer, you're no longer just scraping all the detritus off the stupid web.

how patterns in that data are made sense of, what analysis is done to that data, and then what we do with the sense we make of it, right? What decisions we make, right? And so, you know, we do all that, we transform what AI is and what it means. Because no longer, you're no longer just scraping all the detritus off the stupid web.

which was deposited or created via this surveillance business model, packaging that in an LLM and calling that intelligence, right? You're actually having to grapple with the epistemic process by which data becomes a proxy for reality. And that proxy shapes our lives and institutions. And so I think AI itself, right now we're talking about these massive models, right?

which was deposited or created via this surveillance business model, packaging that in an LLM and calling that intelligence, right? You're actually having to grapple with the epistemic process by which data becomes a proxy for reality. And that proxy shapes our lives and institutions. And so I think AI itself, right now we're talking about these massive models, right?

which was deposited or created via this surveillance business model, packaging that in an LLM and calling that intelligence, right? You're actually having to grapple with the epistemic process by which data becomes a proxy for reality. And that proxy shapes our lives and institutions. And so I think AI itself, right now we're talking about these massive models, right?

This laws of scale, this sort of like big,

This laws of scale, this sort of like big,

This laws of scale, this sort of like big,

american guy dream of the you know the largest in the world um but ai is a you know it's a very slippery term it's not a technical term of art it can apply to many many different things and there are small models there are sort of you know heterodox approaches there are expert systems which they're now trying to bolt onto the side of generative systems because like wait probabilistic answers aren't true so we need to bolt truth back on and we're kind of repeating a lot of the