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Practical AI ethics with a side of technical safety.

By day software engineer and product person. By night education volunteer. Reading and writing about AI ethics and technical safety so you don't have to.

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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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Currently reading

Currently readingMust-read book

Atlas of AI

by Kate Crawford

A 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

A 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.

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