TL;DR: AI agents are making code cheap, but testing and human review are becoming more expensive. Three principles from autonomous software factories could help: compute once, count once, publish once.
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Practical AI ethics with a side of technical safety.
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Currently readingMust-read book
Atlas of AI
by Kate CrawfordA material and political account of AI as an extractive industry, tracing the natural resources, human labour, data and power behind systems often presented as immaterial and autonomous.
Currently readingMust-read book
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
by Simon BlackburnA compact introduction to moral philosophy and the foundations of ethical thought, exploring scepticism, relativism, freedom, happiness and how we decide what it means to live well.