Joanna Bryson
@j2bryson.bsky.social
Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
BTW, not evident from the picture, but the linkedin post at the head of this thread complements @rollingstone.com for accurately describing the #systemsAI #systemsEngineering steps Grok (the corporate entity) took to address the harms.
See slide incl. alt text for Musk's ignorance of how LLM work.
See slide incl. alt text for Musk's ignorance of how LLM work.
![A slide about how large language models work. I'd been drawing this on whiteboards for my students, then made a slide at a consciousness meeting where philosophers were confused why LLM never say they aren't sentient. [I hope it's evident that this is informed conjecture, not verbatim truth.] Thus the 3 people in the history of the Internet who ever wrote "I'm not sentient" are out in the fringes of the data, as is the one person who ever said "Check it out, MechaHitler!" However, Musk's attempt to use a second set of guardrails to push Grok right also pushed it towards the under-informed data fringe with the MechaHitler comment. The bottom of the slide says "False statements are not lies, nor hallucinations; just adequate predictions from an inadequately informed part of the data space."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkbweudpy6tvzjqdiza4z3p5/bafkreibmcjvoddrjto47fqgfq3cqsrylrrfyvp7nzks3ldzb3vuhcgqpa4@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
BTW, not evident from the picture, but the linkedin post at the head of this thread complements @rollingstone.com for accurately describing the #systemsAI #systemsEngineering steps Grok (the corporate entity) took to address the harms.
See slide incl. alt text for Musk's ignorance of how LLM work.
See slide incl. alt text for Musk's ignorance of how LLM work.
Closeup on the whales. Blue whales have gone from huge to invisible to barely visible following the hunting ban. Humpbacks were always in minority, is that related to why they sing?
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Closeup on the whales. Blue whales have gone from huge to invisible to barely visible following the hunting ban. Humpbacks were always in minority, is that related to why they sing?
“One of the first public displays of the double helix, at the Royal Society Conversazione in June 1953, was signed by the authors of all three Nature papers1–3,21. In this, the discovery of the structure of DNA was not seen as a race won by Watson and Crick, but as the outcome of a joint effort.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“One of the first public displays of the double helix, at the Royal Society Conversazione in June 1953, was signed by the authors of all three Nature papers1–3,21. In this, the discovery of the structure of DNA was not seen as a race won by Watson and Crick, but as the outcome of a joint effort.”
What, is the full reviewing and editing process fully automated, or do they have a set of "peers" who push the buttons on the reviewing?
Is Editorial Office the name of a bot? Can we call it "EdO"?
Is Editorial Office the name of a bot? Can we call it "EdO"?
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What, is the full reviewing and editing process fully automated, or do they have a set of "peers" who push the buttons on the reviewing?
Is Editorial Office the name of a bot? Can we call it "EdO"?
Is Editorial Office the name of a bot? Can we call it "EdO"?
The UK's own projections on its productivity are the reverse of predictions about the efficacy of solar. How can it be the people projecting aren't learning? Something way systemic must be making these so bad.
www.theguardian.com/business/202... and www.exponentialview.co/p/the-foreca... are sources
www.theguardian.com/business/202... and www.exponentialview.co/p/the-foreca... are sources
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The UK's own projections on its productivity are the reverse of predictions about the efficacy of solar. How can it be the people projecting aren't learning? Something way systemic must be making these so bad.
www.theguardian.com/business/202... and www.exponentialview.co/p/the-foreca... are sources
www.theguardian.com/business/202... and www.exponentialview.co/p/the-foreca... are sources
They're simultaneously doing some good, trying to cover some liability, and propping up the bubble holding together the US (& therefore global) stock markets see also my pinned skype here.
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
They're simultaneously doing some good, trying to cover some liability, and propping up the bubble holding together the US (& therefore global) stock markets see also my pinned skype here.
The sentiment behind that original thread makes me insane bsky.app/profile/j2br...
“But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not — safety, for example, or money, or power.” James Baldwin.
Cc @mmitchell.bsky.social
“But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not — safety, for example, or money, or power.” James Baldwin.
Cc @mmitchell.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The sentiment behind that original thread makes me insane bsky.app/profile/j2br...
“But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not — safety, for example, or money, or power.” James Baldwin.
Cc @mmitchell.bsky.social
“But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not — safety, for example, or money, or power.” James Baldwin.
Cc @mmitchell.bsky.social
they've now made it a thread from their account, but here it is as one
October 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
they've now made it a thread from their account, but here it is as one
I was giving one of my "DevOps vs AGI" talks the day Jane Goodall died. I rapidly inserted 3 slides at the beginning of my talk, which then bent feminist, to the annoyance of a few...
modding that talk again now, sad to take the opening slides away, but it did run too long
modding that talk again now, sad to take the opening slides away, but it did run too long
October 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I was giving one of my "DevOps vs AGI" talks the day Jane Goodall died. I rapidly inserted 3 slides at the beginning of my talk, which then bent feminist, to the annoyance of a few...
modding that talk again now, sad to take the opening slides away, but it did run too long
modding that talk again now, sad to take the opening slides away, but it did run too long
Meanwhile on Xitter
I still go there to read a few people, but the interactions are getting poetic
I still go there to read a few people, but the interactions are getting poetic
October 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Meanwhile on Xitter
I still go there to read a few people, but the interactions are getting poetic
I still go there to read a few people, but the interactions are getting poetic
Wow, looks like Germany's new ministry is expecting trouble
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wow, looks like Germany's new ministry is expecting trouble
Amazing to have an Estonian ethics professor describing witnessing last weekend’s London digital id protests. Ethics is so amazingly ungrounding you wonder how we achieve anything
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Amazing to have an Estonian ethics professor describing witnessing last weekend’s London digital id protests. Ethics is so amazingly ungrounding you wonder how we achieve anything
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Contra NYT. @washingtonpost.com headline. I noticed the NYT pandering to Trump in 2016 and switched subscriptions then.
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Contra NYT. @washingtonpost.com headline. I noticed the NYT pandering to Trump in 2016 and switched subscriptions then.
Globally, more people trust their own countries AND the EU than the US or China when it comes to regulating AI. And a LOT of people are worried – a plurality of people are equally worried and excited about (presumably gen)AI. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/... #AIEthics #digitalGovernance
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Globally, more people trust their own countries AND the EU than the US or China when it comes to regulating AI. And a LOT of people are worried – a plurality of people are equally worried and excited about (presumably gen)AI. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/... #AIEthics #digitalGovernance
The gender-neutral pronouns of e.g. Estonian keep on giving!
He was elected. He is professor. She is a member of the Woman's Group. She received a masters in philosophy. He defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy...
It's not really #AIBias, it's a mirror on our own. @aylincaliskan.bsky.social
He was elected. He is professor. She is a member of the Woman's Group. She received a masters in philosophy. He defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy...
It's not really #AIBias, it's a mirror on our own. @aylincaliskan.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The gender-neutral pronouns of e.g. Estonian keep on giving!
He was elected. He is professor. She is a member of the Woman's Group. She received a masters in philosophy. He defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy...
It's not really #AIBias, it's a mirror on our own. @aylincaliskan.bsky.social
He was elected. He is professor. She is a member of the Woman's Group. She received a masters in philosophy. He defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy...
It's not really #AIBias, it's a mirror on our own. @aylincaliskan.bsky.social
Did you see the Thiel article about end times? He thinks it's apocalypitc that he can't hide his money. In general, they want more agency than it's safe to let them have. They are burning down the tree their sitting on the branches sawing them off of.
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Did you see the Thiel article about end times? He thinks it's apocalypitc that he can't hide his money. In general, they want more agency than it's safe to let them have. They are burning down the tree their sitting on the branches sawing them off of.
The final slide of my 10 minute talk. CC @helenamalikova.bsky.social @helene-rey.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The final slide of my 10 minute talk. CC @helenamalikova.bsky.social @helene-rey.bsky.social
Slaves should be robots
October 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Slaves should be robots
I don’t mean to complain but I don’t know what I’m doing here. I gave a talk to 30 people and now have no one to talk to until at least the dinner at in 2.5 hours.
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I don’t mean to complain but I don’t know what I’m doing here. I gave a talk to 30 people and now have no one to talk to until at least the dinner at in 2.5 hours.
I think they were already losing both the hegemony and the capacity to regulate companies of the scale they've allowed these to grow to, even before they started dismantling their state capacity.
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I think they were already losing both the hegemony and the capacity to regulate companies of the scale they've allowed these to grow to, even before they started dismantling their state capacity.
I decided people might not know enough about briefcases anymore to understand briefcase terms, and now I have a slide with the Blues Brothers in it :-)
October 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I decided people might not know enough about briefcases anymore to understand briefcase terms, and now I have a slide with the Blues Brothers in it :-)
Ha ha – I always tell my students in my #AIconsciousness lecture that the only thing besides concepts not just "emerging" from skills we haven't yet achieved {in this ambitious @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social & LAS proposal to build a baby} is "hand linking", and that's because no one can afford fingers.
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ha ha – I always tell my students in my #AIconsciousness lecture that the only thing besides concepts not just "emerging" from skills we haven't yet achieved {in this ambitious @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social & LAS proposal to build a baby} is "hand linking", and that's because no one can afford fingers.
Another Tahoe bug – most of my preview windows look like this
October 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Another Tahoe bug – most of my preview windows look like this
October 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM