Need for AI Ethicists Becomes Clearer as Companies Admit Tech’s Flaws
The initial euphoria over AI’s potential is giving way to the realization that the tech industry will need ethicists to guard against problems caused by artificial intelligence.
On behalf of workers at Microsoft, we're releasing an open letter to Brad Smith and Satya Nadella, demanding for the cancelation of the IVAS contract with a call for stricter ethical guidelines.If you're a Microsoft employee you can sign at: https://t.co/958AhvIHO5 pic.twitter.com/uUZ5P4FJ7X— Microsoft Workers 4 Good (@MsWorkers4) February 22, 2019
“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me. And I put it to you that privacy is not just a virtue, or a […]
nice read, but this news resource threw this at me :( #whyyoumakemefeelbadjezebel pic.twitter.com/Dv1yFLrbWu— Alina Cvetkova (@nuacco) February 28, 2019
gaslighting is telling people they're wrong about their own feelings - it's describes my experience of the app telling me congrats I'm back home with a sparkle icon when it just did something that upset me. I have no idea if it's malicious, but it's unquestionably gaslighting.— Cyd Harrell (@cydharrell) March 1, 2019
AF-chefen kallas till riksdagen – måste förklara robothaveriet
Arbetsförmedlingens generaldirektör kallas till riksdagens arbetsmarknadsutskott för att förklara det it-haveri som kan ha orsakat upp till 70 000 felbeslut.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google Would Like to Be the Gatekeepers of Democracy Without the Responsibility
Top brass from Facebook, Twitter, and Google stopped by Stanford Law School Thursday to participate in a conversation about the challenges social media companies face in regulating free speech and protecting democracies. The panel showed the companies are much better at identifying problems than actually solving them.
Riding your bike in this city gets you free beer and ice cream
If you’ve ever felt that your green credentials have gone unrewarded, it might be worth considering a move to the Italian city of Bologna. For six months a year, an initiative called Bella Mossa
Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Facebook Hiring Tech Industry Critics to Staff DC Privacy Policy Team
Facebook, facing an onslaught of privacy-related controversies and a growing push for regulation, has in the last month hired three high-profile tech industry critics and commentators to beef up its privacy policy team in Washington, D.C.A Facebook spokesman said the hires, who come from Access ...