Google DeepMind's CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish

Steven Levy 06-04-2025
https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepminds-ceo-demis-hassabis-thinks-ai-will-make-humans-less-selfish/?ref=ActivityPub

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YabbaDabbaDu! #StevenLevy speaks at #BildetNetze from @netzpolitik_org in #Berlin about our #HackerEthics

#Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (25th Anniversery Edition)

Found his #Audiobook as a free #Download because Information wants to be free

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25th Anniversary Edition

@ianthetechie

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I'm not saying that all or even *most* programmers are that two-dimensional, but I was very surprised that *any* were.

This was not the image of the programmer that #StevenLevy gave me, and I wasn't quite sure what to do with that. 😏

In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.

“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.

He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”

Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.

“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”

I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.

“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”

He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.

Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.

“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)

An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.

“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.

“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”

The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.

“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’

There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.

Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.

The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.

“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.

5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.

Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.

In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.

Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.

Huawei and China now have the lead.”

US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.

And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.

For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.

Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.

“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”

To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.

-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.

Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.

#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired

Happy to toot that @arcane has updated our list of #2600 groups worldwide which have presence on "Free as in Freedom" and #Decentralized protocols/services that respects the #HackerCulture and #HackerEthics as in #StevenLevy https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/2600.md @2600@lemmy.world @nh2600 @2600@glasgow.social @2600@mastodon.online @NYC2600 @philly2600 @2600_madrid @nc2600 @lansing2600 @hackers@lemmy.ml https://hispagatos.space/@rek2/111382101101362726 @rek2

Happy to toot that @arcane has updated our list of #2600 groups worldwide which have presence on "Free as in Freedom" and #Decentralized protocols/services that respects the #HackerCulture and #HackerEthics as in #StevenLevy https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/2600.md @2600@lemmy.world @nh2600 @2600@glasgow.social @2600@mastodon.online @NYC2600 @philly2600 @2600_madrid @nc2600 @lansing2600 @hackers@lemmy.ml

@2600
Threads like any corporation trying to suck the blood(data) out of inocent ignorant people are not worth of hackers to be part and support,
#hackers are building the fediverse to free data (and people) and before the fediverse operating systems(Linux, Bsd), and many protocols and services.
We should support other hackers, not anti ethical corporations making humans their data cows. #TheHackerEthics #StevenLevy

@pragprog This is my bible of #computer #culture: https://books2read.com/hackers
#Hackers #StevenLevy

prob wont do a #Happy #Hacking #Friday FF this week, there is just to many good hackers true to the hacker culture now on mastodon to put on a follow list hahaha I have to think on a new method :) but everyone REMEMBER! #HackingIsNotACrime #HAckerCulture and #HackerEthics #StevenLevy #FreeSofware :ablobcatrave: :crt_w_green_lines: :crt_w_prompt: 🏴 :blobrainbow: :gnu: :mastodon: 😍 😘 do follow and Thank you @Killab33z_OG for hosting our instance <3

☕ thinking, someone with #gimp skills should create an emoji for hacker that it resembles some according to hacking and not the false portrayel in the media and cybersecurity complex fear mongering #hackingisnotacrime https://www.hackingisnotacrime.org/ #hackers #hacking #hackerCulture #hackerEthics #StevenLevy

It’s time for a proper #introduction.

I’m a #GeekDad with two boys.
I’m current serving military, but don’t know any secrets!


I got to infosec.exchange just ahead of the main wave.
Somehow, through some early conversations and comments I managed to #RedTeam my way onto some lists of ‘good people to follow’.

On Twitter I stood at the back of the room and looked to people like you for information and perspective. Now it seems I’ve moved further into the room and people are looking at me and it feels like I’m taking the class ‘Introduction to#ImposterSyndrome’.

While I don’t work in #InfoSec I do relate strongly to the community and learn from you all.
I know enough to know it’s always #DNS (or #BGP)



At home I run #pfSense, #HomeAssistant and feed #ADS-B data to #FlightAware and #FlightRadar24.

My favourite #TWIT episodes are when @MikeElgan and @jeffjarvis go head to head.

#StarTrek > #StarWars
MacOS > Windows
CAT6 > WiFi
#AvGeek
#BLM
#HerBodyHerChoice

#BookRecomendations
#ExpeditionaryForce series by #CraigAlanson
#NPCs series by #DrewHayes
#TheBobiverse series by #Dennis_E_Taylor
#CrashDive series by #Craig_DiLouie
#FailureIsNotAnOption by #GeneKranz
#TheMartian and #ProjectHailMary by #AndyWeir
#Magic2.0 series by #ScottMeyer
#AncillaryJustice series by #AnnLeckie
#Area51 by #AnnieJacobson
#CountdownToZeroDay by #KimZetter
#TheCompany by #RobertLittell
#AnAstronautsGuideToLifeOnEarth by #ChrisHadfield
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#GhostInTheWires by #KevinMitnick & #William_L_Simon
#Hackers_HeroesOfTheComputerRevolution by #StevenLevy

Los 6 principios de la ética hacker.

Por Steven Levy (1984)

1. El acceso a ordenadores y a cualquier cosa que pueda enseñar algo acerca de la forma en que funciona el mundo, debe ser ilimitado y total.

2. Toda la información debe ser libre.

3. Desconfía de la autoridad, promueve la descentralización.

4. Los hackers deben ser juzgados por su capacidad y no por sus títulos, edad, raza, sexo o posición.

5. Puedes crear arte y belleza en un ordenador.

6. Los ordenadores pueden cambiar tu vida para mejor.

#hacker #hackers #éticahacker #stevenlevy #ordenadores #computadores #retro #principios #historia

HAPPY HACKING FRIDAY!!! keep on hacking for social change
and love please follow all this awesome people :anarchiststar: @neko @sidd_harth0_5h4h @oximurah @x3r0x @olamundo @Anarkat @ana @dokuja @codeforchaos #hackerethics #anarchism #hackerculture #hacking #ff #descentralization @_1b0 #stevenlevy @HackerRadioShow @kolektiva @hackernol #hackthesystem @meow @maltman23

@HackerRadioShow you guys should find more ethical ways of distributing your show, apple itunes is not that great... im sure there are open source and libre options, maybe #peertube is decentralized and you can run your own node or use someone elses. we wont mind allowing you to upload video/sound https://video.hispagatos.org but there are hundreds of nodes like mastodon #hackthesystem #hacking #hackerethics #stevenlevy