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Letting thoughts come and go without engaging with them or falling under their spell allows us to experience ourselves as the awareness within which the thoughts are appearing, the awareness that is deciding to let the thoughts go.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, Meta, or Anthropic’s other big competitors — is broader. Ganguli sees his job as finding “inconvenient truths” about AI that tech companies have incentives not to publicize, then sharing them with not only Anthropic leadership, but the rest of the world.
Meet the Anthropic team reckoning with AI’s effect on humans and the world
Hayden Field
The better we get at unhooking and choosing toward moves, the better our quality of life and the greater our health, well-being, and happiness.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
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