Nitasha Tiku
Washington Post
Castro Valley, CA, United States
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How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse
Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse → Read More
The Elonization of Mark Zuckerberg: How the Meta CEO is playing it cool
Mark Zuckerberg is trying to make himself more relevant to the tech elite. → Read More
Doomsday to utopia: Meet AI’s rival factions
Inside Silicon Valley’s insular AI sector, a small group of strange but influential subcultures have clashed in recent months. → Read More
Tech workers claimed caste bias. Now California could make it illegal.
A bill seeks to make caste a protected category. → Read More
Stumbling with their words, some people let AI do the talking
A machine that talks like a person has long been a science fiction fantasy. Now it’s closer to reality than ever before. → Read More
FTX’s Bahamas crypto empire: Stimulants, subterfuge and a spectacular collapse
Sam Bankman-Fried's image of monkish aloofness met reality in the Bahamas, where the 30-year-old crypto billionaire lived in a guarded island compound, with every need closely catered to and the world’s elite at his beck and call. → Read More
The U.K.'s communications regulator issues its first report on video services
Ofcom, which oversees TV, radio and telecoms, began regulating some online video platforms last October → Read More
‘Chat’ with Musk, Trump or Xi: Ex-Googlers want to give the public AI
Two top artificial intelligence talents left Google to create a new chatbot start-up that lets users experiment with the latest in language AI. → Read More
AI-generated images, like DALL-E, spark rival brands and controversy
Since April, DALL-E has triggered an explosion of images generated using artificial intelligence. But the technology is spreading faster than creators can shape norms around its use. → Read More
Encrypted app Signal just hired one of Big Tech’s sharpest critics
Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app. → Read More
Google fired engineer who said its AI was sentient
Blake Lemoine, who claimed Google’s chatbot generator LaMDA was sentient, has been fired. → Read More
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder. → Read More
Google’s plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’
Thenmozhi Soundararajan was uninvited from giving a talk at Google about caste bias after some employees said such discrimination doesn't exist. → Read More
Welcome to the girlbossification of crypto
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis and other celebs push NFTs as a way for women to get rich. → Read More
TikTok suspends posting new video from Russia over the country’s recent ‘fake news’ law
Russia’s new law, signed Friday by President Putin, bans what the country calls “fake” news about its military, including language that describes Russia’s attack against Ukraine as an “invasion,” under threat of a 15-year prison sentence. → Read More
A 29-year-old CEO is pushing crypto during the Super Bowl by giving away millions in bitcoin
FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried bought a Super Bowl ad that promises to give away millions in Bitcoin. But his real targets are American regulators. → Read More
‘Crypto colonizers’ in Puerto Rico try to sell locals on the dream
A new wave of wealthy investors is moving to the island. This time they say the locals can get rich too. → Read More
Google fired its star AI researcher one year ago. Now she’s launching her own institute
Timnit Gebru is launching Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups → Read More
Hide Your Instagram Likes—and Be Free
A feed without likes is far from a revolution. But I want to enjoy this summer with my friends, not my metrics. → Read More
Gen Z women are breaking into the venture capital boy’s club
Before watching, Doherty, 22, just assumed venture capital was “a bunch of old dudes sitting in a mahogany library with cigars, saying, ‘I want to invest in that company!’” On-screen, however, the women VCs navigated the same kind of challenges she studied during her college entrepreneurship program — figuring out financial architecture, brainstorming strategy, and cultivating relationships with… → Read More