machine learning
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The New Alexandrian Book Burning – How AI Labs Are Pulping the Human Record

The systematic destruction of physical books for artificial intelligence training represents an unprecedented assault on humanity’s cultural inheritance, sanctioned by courts and executed at industrial scale The development of artificial intelligence has required vast quantities of human-produced text, and the methods by which technology companies have acquired this material have attracted increasing scrutiny as the… Continue reading
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Ban on Chinese Scientists Scrapped at NeurIPS After Backlash

Sanctions frameworks and conference gatekeeping operate as political tools in shaping scientific access, funding, and global AI competition Reversal of a ban on Chinese researchers by United States-based organizers of NeurIPS has exposed the degree to which geopolitical competition now shapes access to core scientific infrastructure in artificial intelligence, a field central to economic and… Continue reading
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