Gebru et al's response to the AI pause letter is super interesting.
"While there are a number of recommendations in the letter that we agree with (and proposed in our 2021 peer-reviewed paper known informally as "Stochastic Parrots"), such as "provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic" media, these are overshadowed by fearmongering and AI hype...letter addresses none of the ongoing harms from these systems"
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023
CoSo now has a copy of a paper Silicon Valley & Wall Street should read about risks brought by large language models.
Spoiler: they don't include the Singularity. Definitely include spam and abuse.
I think it's pretty approachable for all audiences. Enjoy!
E. M. Bender, T. Gebru, A. McMillan-Major, and S. Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”
ACM, Mar. 2021, pp. 610–623. doi: 10.1145/3442188.3445922.