My turf on the internet

You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world.

— Morpheus, The Matrix

Posts

Working for robots

I self-host some of my git repositories to keep sovereignty and independence from large Internet corporations. Public facing repositories are for everybody, and today that means for robots. Robots are the main consumers of my work. With the AI-hype, I wanted to have a look at what are those AI companies collecting from my work. It is worse than everything, it is idiotically everything. They can’t recognize, that they are parsing git repositories and use the appropriate way of downloading them.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 9 min read | Thoughts

What motivated the recent publishing spree?

I admire people that write blog posts. Taking the time to put something out there. I want to be like them and share too. This website receives occasional attention, when I really want to say something. Many times, I really want and still fail to do it. It piles on the backlog. This time I had a challenge: 8 posts within a month! About twice a week: challenging but feasible. But as reality would have it, even with some planning I still cram everything to the last moment. There something creative and motivating about pressure and deadlines.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
| 3 min read | Personal
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Talks

AI in Europe - regulated to irrelevance

Europe is regulating itself into irrelevance in the digital space. Lead by good intentions to protect consumers safety and privacy as well as promoting fair play between companies, it created a playground nobody wants to play in. Motivated by the frustrating burden of regulation I went to explore what alternatives we could enjoy, and how we as a society have regulated incoming technologies.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
— Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin | AI Regulation

Regulating Technology

A technology survives as long as it serves a solution in a better way than the problems it adds. Digitization has evolved from interesting to crucial in only a few decades. Artificial Intelligence shall experience an even faster adoption and challenges us to form opinions about things we didn’t grow up with and don’t always understand so well. That accompanies our move towards new regulation with panic, a rush for easy answers and inadvertence to complexities at hand.

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
— Nürnberg Convention Center | Regulation

Sleeper agents: training deceptive LLMs that persist through safety training

From political candidates to job-seekers, humans under selection pressure often try to gain opportunities by hiding their true motivations. They present themselves as more aligned with the expectations of their audience than they actually are. If an AI system learned such a deceptive strategy, could we detect it and remove it using current safety training techniques?

By — Dr. Óscar Nájera
— ZOLLHOF - Tech Incubator | AI
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