B Cavello on LinkedIn: #emergingtechprimers #talkbetteraboutai
What are people talking about when they talk about AI? There have been many technologies that have been promoted under the name "artificial intelligence" and…
Joe Jones on LinkedIn: Global AI Legislation Tracker
🚨NEW TRACKER - #AI REGULATION AROUND THE WORLD 🌍 Countries worldwide are designing and implementing #AIgovernance regulatory initiatives commensurate to…
Katharina Koerner on LinkedIn: Selecting Responsible AI Framework
This paper "A Matrix for Selecting Responsible AI Frameworks" from June 2023 looks at more than 40 existing responsible AI frameworks to help organizations…
Authors and Booksellers Urge Justice Dept. to Investigate Amazon
The online retailer’s size and sway affects the free exchange of ideas, the groups argue. The Biden administration has stepped up enforcement of antitrust policies.
How AI Researcher Dylan Baker Uses Technical Communication to Reduce Algorithmic Harm - C/Change
Dylan Baker is an engineer and researcher currently advocating for and building toward more just algorithmic futures at the Distributed AI Research Institute. In this...
U.S. employers are using AI to essentially reduce workers to numbers in the workplace
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Ifeoma Ajunwa, author of The Quantified Worker, about how work lives have become quantified for the benefit of employers.
Digital Services Act : application of the risk management framework to Russian disinformation campaigns.
During the first year of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, social media companies enabled the Kremlin to run a large-scale disinformation campaign targeting the European Union and its allies, reaching an aggregate audience of at least 165 million and generating at least 16 billion views. Preliminary analysis suggests that the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards.
Learn more about the current moment for language technology and how the UW's computational linguistics program prepares students to work in the field in this Q&A with program director Emily M. Bender.
Q&A: Uncovering the labor exploitation that powers AI
Investigating how tech firms like OpenAI and Meta teach their algorithms right from wrong, TIME’s Billy Perrigo discovered routine exploitation in the Global South.
The Algorithmic Justice League on LinkedIn: #inplanesight #aibillofrights #ajlunited
In October 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” identifying five principles that…
“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans