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HENRY FRASER​
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The AI Mephistophilis
To use generative AI - or at least to use it badly; to rely on it to do your thinking and communicating - is in some sense to admit defeat and consign yourself to irrelevance. It is an admission that your capability, your personality, even, is replaceable.
Henry Fraser
Jun 272 min read
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AI and the temptation to cheat at everything
At this point it seems fair to say that the lure of cheating is not a fringe sociological bug, found around the margins of AI deployment. It's an essential feature of this new technology. The tech is what it does, and one thing it does very well is tempt people to cheat. At everything.
Henry Fraser
Jun 244 min read
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The nightmare of a frictionless world
Big tech businesses like Google and Meta are trying to build a world where their AI products "assist" everyone to do everything. They are eliminating friction from life, letting us all do things by ourselves that would once have required the help of other people, and the time needed to cultivate human relationships and interactions. I don't want to live in that world.
Henry Fraser
Jun 134 min read
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Nov 19, 20240 min read
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Decoding Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making
A blueprint for AI guardrails? Jacqueline McIlroy, Sara Luck and Henry Fraser CROSS POSTED FROM ADM+S BLOG As Australia considers the...
Henry Fraser
Jul 31, 20248 min read
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How to ace law school
I've just finished teaching a law subject on privacy, law and AI governance over summer (here in Australia it's summer right now). It was...
Henry Fraser
Feb 23, 20243 min read
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‘AI safety’ doesn’t make AI safe
AI alignment may currently be out of reach, but basic human decency is not A Belgian man took his own life in March this year after...
Henry Fraser
Jun 28, 20239 min read
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Biases about bias
Picture a machine learning system that relies on crowdsourced data labelers to help rank music recommendations. Is the system vulnerable...
Henry Fraser
Oct 11, 20215 min read
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Pluralism and regulatory overlap
I'm thinking about the concept of overlap in the governance of AI and automated decision-making (ADM). I've been reading Europe's new...
Henry Fraser
May 21, 20216 min read
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Accountability as a value proposition
There is a fast-growing cottage industry of consultants and advisers who advise businesses on AI Ethics. Their value proposition is that...
Henry Fraser
Apr 29, 20213 min read
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