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Kate Crawford's AI Lecture Raises Conflict of Interest Questions

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Professor Kate Crawford delivered the Weizenbaum Distinguished Lecture, discussing critical points about artificial intelligence, power, and imperial systems. While her arguments were compelling, the speaker's affiliation with Microsoft Research, a significant funder of OpenAI, raised questions about potential conflicts of interest. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the influence of corporate funding on academic discourse in AI.

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    Yesterday I attended the Weizenbaum Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Kate Crawford. While she said many interesting thing and raised critital points (none of th

    Yesterday I attended the Weizenbaum Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Kate Crawford. While she said many interesting thing and raised critital points (none of them very new but all together in an convincing narrative, probaly this was not the audience for the "heavy lifting"), for…

    LINKS weizenbaum-institut.de/…/kate-crawford-ma…

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