Erin M
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Erin M
@erinmackey_
organizing for a better world 🤍 (she/her)

Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.

BEIRUT (AP) — Over 100 children have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Lebanese Health Ministry says.

The Iran war cost more than $11 billion in the first week, Pentagon says. — NYT

A cop smacked a protestor at the OSAP rally with a skateboard. #ontario #osap #ontariouniversities #frankdomenic🍁

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.



Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will assess workers' "friendliness" and will be trained to recognize certain words and phrases like “welcome to Burger King,” “please,” and “thank you.” The AI will be programmed into workers' headsets, according to @verge.

Thousands of people showed up for their free Kalshi groceries What an incredible day



#BREAKING: Several Toronto police officers charged in ‘organized crime and corruption investigation’: sources ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/…





Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk. Obtained by Drop Site News






