Trena Christensen

How at 5am are Claude’s servers so overwhelmed that it has failed 5 times in a row?

Passed my AIGP exam! I don’t know what to do with myself now that I’m not study.

About 40 hours deep into studying for the AI Governance Professional AIGP certification and I’m starting to find policy documentation interesting.

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

Aravind Srinivas, you either don’t know or care about what your users want. We don’t want to be tracked.

We want privacy and security.

We want to use apps without our data bought and sold.

We are people.

You don’t get to treat us like we are only worth the profits you will make from us.

How Snapchat Is Failing to Protect Its Users What Happens When Platforms Prioritize Growth Over Safety?

What happens when a platform prioritizes growth over safety?
I looked into Snapchat’s transparency reports, lawsuits, and moderation failures—and the numbers are worse than you think.

After seeing it referenced in so many pieces, I finally ordered “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”, but I didn’t think to check the length.

Only 650 pages of existential dread!

Decades of progress is being erased in front of us.

If we come out the other side, how long is it going to take for us to rebuild to where we were a year ago.

I signed up for Coursera Plus because the $50 a month is well worth what I’ve gotten out of it.

A sincere thank you to the colleges that have posted their courses online.

College is wasted on the young.

When I was in college, I couldn’t wait for it to be over. But now, there is nothing I love more than taking college classes.

This transfers the some of the risk and support costs.
But depending on the level of customization, this could still boil down to the ROI.
You’ll may still face a trade off between how much you want to invest to make the product effective (accurate/efficient)

Plus the added cost to maintain and support the tool. When companies are cutting costs and laying off employees, to tell them to invest instead is going to be an uphill battle.
Alternatively companies selling SaS AI products are going to make a killing.

The cost per token may be cheap. But the cost to develop an idea through the lifecycle from POC to a functioning effective AI production tool is expensive.
I’m not sure how many companies are going to be willing to invest the money and time in this current market.

I was starting to look into Masters degrees in AI Ethics / Governance. But after seeing the $45-50k price tag, I don’t know how people financially do it.
So let’s hope that my Tech work experience and a few certifications in AI Ethics will be enough for recruiter’s AI not to toss my resume.

The inequality gap between those who own the means of production and the general worker is not sustainable. AI will further impact the labor force. Efforts need to be developed now to help counteract the instability.

I've been reading about how public policies, similar to those used during the Great Depression, should be used to minimize the coming impact of inequality caused by AI. These may include:
- Education for job transitions
- Unemployment
- Social services (health insurance not tied to employment)

Maybe our emotions shouldn’t be for sale.

Your TV is watching you. LG recently announced that they have plans to incorporate AI into their TV’s “in order to interpret psychological factors impacting a viewer, such as personal interests, personality traits, and lifest...

Why we should all be concerned about LG’s plans for AI-powered TVs aim to personalize ads by analyzing your emotions.

AI and Racial Bias in Real Estate How AI has impacted racial disparities.

Racial bias in real estate isn’t new. AI can perpetuate it at an unprecedented scale—but it can also help expose it.

Welcome to AI: Machines and Morality When I decided to start this project, I didn’t intend for it to be anything formal—just a notepad for thoughts as I work through how AI is impacting society.

If you are looking to hear to ramblings of someone who works in Tech and is working through how AI impacts society?

Congrats, you’ve come to the right place!

I’m almost nervous to ask but anyone have any good “Intro to Philosophy” recommendations?

Sometimes it’s just not necessary to use overly complex language in your work. If I have to translate what you are trying to say, you’re not helping your argument.

FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand The case centers around its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

This FTC vs Meta lawsuit is the epitome of technology moving faster than regulations. This case was brought 3 years ago, the world is in a much different place.

Breaking up monopolies is important, but we need to prioritize passing regulations on targeted ads.

It’s been about 2 weeks of minor frustrations and fiddling around. But it’s not the AI’s fault, if I’m unclear on what I want.
This has taught me so much about how to work better with AI in the future.

So when it finally gave me a format I liked, I updated the task to use that moving forward.

Next I realized the topic was ONLY on Ethical AI. I intended that to mean pieces in the Ethical or Responsible AI space, but the model doesn’t work like that. So I updated the topics the articles can cover.

So I told it to not duplicate articles. Great, this helped for a bit but it still will repeat occasionally.

The next issue was the format. Every day the format would be different. Bullet points, paragraphs, missing publishing date, poor descriptions, or maybe even missing the key points.

Every day at 5am I have ChatGPT send me articles on Ethical AI. Even this small task has help me recognize the importance of structuring prompts. We started with:
“Can you email me 2-4 research articles on Ethical AI every day at 5am?”
This was great until I realized it was repeating pieces.

“Philosophy is just critical thinking on steroids.”

I think Philosophy seems too overwhelming and abstract for most people (including myself). But this might be a great way to explain it in a way that makes it more accessible.

The American brain drain is under way.

I’ve been using ChatGPT to preview research articles by summarizing them first so I know if they’re worth the deep read. Just dropped five new article my reading list.

Don’t ask how many are in the list.

Why Democracy Needs Privacy - Boston Review The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

“Why you should still fight for liberal democracy—even if your current president is a dimwit. Even if you think that the current or past government have ruined your country. Even if you feel unrepresented. Even if you suspect your society has been hacked. Even if you distrust your fellow citizens”