Key PointsSince approval of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, it has been widely and repeatedly claimed that a ‘right to exp

Western societies are marked by diverse and extensive biases and inequality that are unavoidably embedded in the data used to train machine learning. Algorithms

Here is what Slack should do: find the people in the org who warned you the DM feature could be abused by bad actors and LISTEN TO THEM NEXT TIME. Find the people who said that was an overreaction or too negative and make sure they understand they were wrong and why.— Laura Klein (@lauraklein) March 25, 2021

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The company launched a new feature to let anyone message anyone else on Slack, without mechanisms for users to block unwanted or harassing messages.

In Hungarian, we don’t use he/she there is only one gender pronoun “Ö”. But it’s fascinating when this is fed through Google Translate, the algorithms highlight the biases that are there. Then imagine enacting any kind of change from those biases, encoded into computer code. pic.twitter.com/DygBtaHShU— ρђ๏є๒є Շเςкєɭɭ (@solarpunk_girl) March 20, 2021

Artificial intelligence will bever be completely free of bias, but there are ways to make it as unbiased as possible.

As artificial intelligence models grow larger and consume more energy, experts have begun to worry about their impact on Earth’s climate.

Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) made the transition from theory to reality, research and development centers across the world have been rushing to come up with the next big AI breakthrough.

Biometric data privacy suits filed against Microsoft and Amazon will go ahead after a federal judge rejected motions to dismiss the near-identical allegations.

Reading this paper on the applicability of the GDPR to ‘Affective AI’ and it strikes me that humanity has spent an inordinate amount of time, energy and money to merely replicate the efficacy and accuracy of temple prophets fondling sheep entrails for insights— Miss IG Geek (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 (@MissIG_Geek) March 18, 2021

Two academics changed plans to attend an invite-only conference this week; a third says he’ll no longer accept funding from the company.

The surveillance-capitalist giant fired some of its most popular researchers—and revealed its true colors in the process.

Today we call anyone with a flip phone a Luddite. But the term has radical origins.

The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents

Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.

We must stand together now, or the precedent we set for the field of AI ethics bodes a grim future for us all.

By scraping the web for photos and extracting unique biometric information, Clearview AI violates privacy and chills protected political speech, a lawsuit says.

Recommendations feature also pushed anti-vaccination and antisemitic material, watchdog says

Delivery fleets are creating fears of a world where people dodge heavy, fast-moving droids.

Neil tackles the fallacies underpinning the trope that Internet regulation should be about making the online world "as safe as the offline world".

The company launched an ad campaign that shows just how worried it is about Apple's upcoming privacy changes.

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Secure cloud storage firm pCloud looked at the new Apple privacy labels featured in the App Store, analyzing ‘Date used to Track You’, ‘Third Party Advertising’, and ‘Developer’s Advertising or Marketing’.

Clubhouse says that notifications are an important part of its service. Some users say the app sends far too many.