Digital Ethics

Relations are basic building blocks of human cognition. Classic and recent work suggests that many relations are early developing, and quickly perceived. Machine models that aspire to human-level...

Can you afford an adversarial attack on autonomous car object detection algorithms? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/AVg6pVquuC— Evil AI Cartoons (@EvilAICartoons) August 3, 2022

The pressure on schools to keep students safe, especially to protect them physically and support their mental health, has never been greater. The mental health crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns about the increasing number of school shootings have led to questions about the role of technology in meeting these […]

“The idea is that if enough people get hurt, they’ll stop coming.”

Beyond the current news cycle about whether AIs are sentient is a more practical and immediately consequential conversation about AI value…

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

You could sell your textbook on the blockchain.

Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, research suggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn. The bill...

I’m preparing for a talk about inclusion in AI and the need for more diversity in the field. While I was aware that the field of AI was hugely skewed towards men, I had no idea of the extent of it's misogynistic conference culture. In particular, one story about the battle to change the offensive name of a well established conference stood out as a symbol of bigger problems. For decades, one of the leading global AI conferences went by the acronym “NIPS” which stood for Neural Information Proce

Attached: 1 image Reading David F. Noble's "Progress without People" and this one page basically explains why one has to oppose the whole crypto space.

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Micah Goodman Spring 2022

Privacy concerns are forcing an end to tracking cookies, and the industry can't agree on what's next.

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Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla.

The NHTSA is now investigating a stunning total of 39 Tesla crashes.

As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works

This article shares a breakdown of the zebra business model - one that is both profitable and improves society and discusses how we’re thinking about growth.

Moscow incident occurred because child ‘violated’ safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official

Early in 2009, I offered the world some tech advice that I have regretted pretty much ever since: I told…

Demanding accountability is important. But cancellations may lead to missing out on meaningful conversations

AI-Generated Lies Every Day

“Photoshopping nipples over my own breasts works, but just having my breasts out doesn’t.”

Musk is sweet on "longtermism," a vision of deep-future human happiness that's even crazier than you think

Musk, the world’s richest man, pledged to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, but now wants to back out of…

“So OpenAI *did* make a change to DALL-E 2 that does show more diverse images. Unfortunately, in my testing this further reduces the signal-to-noise of the generated images with respect to prompts. https://t.co/70DCetMFkg”

Five days in October.

The fast-growing educational technology industry is poorly regulated and profits from user data. Australian law, education departments and schools can all do more to improve safeguards for children.

The Norwegian hacker talks about her new venture aimed at protecting journalists and critics from powerful adversaries.

When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous…