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I wouldn't call myself a 'true believer'

I'm not sure my responses to this series of 29 questions warrant the tag 'true believer' but I haven't looked into the methodology of this 'AI Compass'.

Essentially my position is that AI is more consequential and useful than things like Blockchain, that it should be better regulated, and that it allows most people to do things they weren't able to do before.

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Surveillance is not safety

Signal: Surveillance Is Not Safety

So our (probably) soon to be ex-leader, Keir Starmer, has announced that the government is mandating encryption backdoors in the name of "child safety". Signal, my messaging app of choice, has responded with a blunt one-page PDF which finishes like this: