Asset Owners Join Forces Against Dual-Class Shares
By: Pensions & Investment Date: June 14, 2022 Asset owners in the U.S. and U.K. are joining forces to address dual-class share structures, with the launch Tuesday of the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes. Led by RPMI Railpen, London, which runs £37 billion ($46.2 billion) of assets on behalf of the railway pension […]
Human-Like Programs Abuse our Empathy – Even Google Engineers Aren’t Immune
By: The Guardian Date: June 14, 2022 The Google engineer Blake Lemoine wasn’t speaking for the company officially when he claimed that Google’s chatbot LaMDA was sentient, but Lemoine’s misconception shows the risks of designing systems in ways that convince humans they see real, independent intelligence in a program. If we believe that text-generating […]