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.

Cohen gave a speech at the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington.

AI companies are using copyrighted works to train their systems. The lawsuits are just getting started

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.

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…

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“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…

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

A recent crop of AI systems claiming to detect AI-generated text perform poorly—and it doesn’t take much to get past them.

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August has not been kind to generative AI

When AI Taylor Swift sings “My Way,” who gets paid?

Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.

Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn.

Generative AI will enrich investors and be deployed against everyone else

Artwork created by artificial intelligence isn’t eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship, a Washington, D.C., federal judge decided Friday.

Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

I mentioned in my last post complimenting Netsafe New Zealand on its submission on the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms proposals, the proactive…

AI is making its way into decision-making in battle. Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?

Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants

In 2008, while working with Will Smith on the set of a film that never ended up getting made, Remington Scott had an epiphany. The visual effects director was watching Smith stand in a photogrammetry booth, with dozens of cameras capturing the actor’s facial features from every possible angle. “ ...

In late 2016 Prof Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of neural networks, said that it’s “quite obvious that we should stop training…

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Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex.

Alphabet's Google was accused in a proposed class action lawsuit on Tuesday of misusing vast amounts of personal information and copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems.