record ambient conversations illegally

Only illegal outside of single-party consent states.

"Ambient conversations" include (and some would argue consist exclusively of) conversations in which you're not a party.

There is a legitimate use for people with certain disabilities, but sadly there's no way to use them for legitimate purposes without Meta having the opportunity to piggy-back on the usage and abuse them for illegitimate purposes.

One word: Meta.

Well now, Flock is back in my good graces. We've got to wipe all those Pee-Wee Hermans off the face of the planet.

The very first line, before the fine article even begins, says that it's a guest post by Henry Cohn, so the summary is simply false.

A law requiring anyone doing work in or on AI be subject to strict liability. Very strict. And that companies in that business name and publish a governing panel to internally regulate their AI work. And be subject to the aforementioned strict liability. Up to and including prison time. And no discharging liability through bankruptcy*.

The government can't regulate something that it does not understand. And maybe private enterprise doesn't either. But they need to shoulder the risk. This could be something like a mesothelioma trust fund, but set up before people start coofing.

*Hey. If it's good enough for student loans ...

Not really a great place to live. It being the final resting place for some of the targets from the Bikini Atoll tests. Also, the recovered remains of K-129 that we claim not to have are buried on one of the S.F. Bay Islands. Maybe this one.

We choose to do AI in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they look easy.

All I need is support for Mojibake.

Your comment is pants.

Surely you know that's an absurdly dismissive opinion? North Korea has the capacity to gain access to anything anyone else does, especially if it comes from China.

""Run as fast as you can.""

Translation: Me like money

... for the lobbying failure. They tried contributing in BitCoin. Then someone converted that to pizzas and got upset.

I just hate it when Firefox trips my breaker trying to sort out Slashdot character encoding.

Oh come on! Slashdot can handle a percent sign just fine. It's just some Slashdditor that can't enter the correct character.