What would be the standard operating conditions for a system advertised as a “universal algorithm for learning and acting in any environment” [127]? How could experiments designed to test the functionality of such a system have construct va…Matthew Sweet, 2011. “Introduction,” Francis Galton’s Kantsaywhere, UCL Special Collections, at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/kantsaywhere, accessed 31 January 2024.
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Nitasha Tiku
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Nitasha Tiku appears in these readings primarily as a journalist covering AI industry developments and corporate power structures. The excerpts reference her work on OpenAI leadership and corporate accountability, suggesting she's being mobilized to ground the course's critical examination of how AI systems are marketed and controlled by examining the institutional narratives that surround them. Her reporting provides concrete evidence for arguments about the gap between technological claims and operational reality—essential to interrogating what "universal algorithms" actually mean in practice.
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