Digital Ethics

OpenAI and Anthropic launch higher education initiatives ahead of finals week.

S&P Global Market Intelligence ran a survey last month, “Voice of the Enterprise: AI & Machine Learning, Use Cases 2025.” They spoke to 1,006 businesses in Europe and North America. [Teleco…

You receive a photo of your child bruised and distressed. Moments later, a voice message arrives. It sounds exactly like them. They’re crying. Begging for… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

Author’s Note I’ve spent years helping large organizations make sense of their future, not just in terms of emerging technologies but also of the structural shifts those technologies tend to demand. My work has often lived at the intersection of strategy and systems architecture, where the real chal

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Sustainable AI Workshop 2024: AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate through Decolonial Lenses🔸 ABOUT THIS VIDEO 🔸 Speaker: Wa...

Vehicles with advanced driving assist systems that automatically steer, accelerate and brake are popular, but associated with increased driver distraction. This distraction, coupled with unreliable autonomous system performance, leads to vehicles that may be at higher risk for striking pedestrians. To this end, this study tested three consumer vehicles in two different model classes in a pedestrian crossing scenario. In 120 trials, one model never detected the pedestrian, nor alerted the driver. In 123 trials, the other model vehicles almost always detected the pedestrian, but in 35% of trials, alerted the driver too late. These cars were not consistent internally or with one another in pedestrian detections and responses, and only sparingly sounded any warnings. These intelligent vehicles also detected the pedestrian earlier if there were no established lane lines, suggesting that in well-marked areas, typically the case in for established crossings, pedestrians may be at increased risk of a possible conflict. This research demonstrates that artificial intelligence can lead to unreliable vehicle behaviors and warnings in pedestrian detection, potentially catching drivers off guard. These results further indicate industry needs to do more testing of intelligent systems, regulators should reevaluate the self-certification approval process, and that more fundamental work is needed in academia around the performance and quality of technologies with embedded neural networks.

My medical data has been breached four times in the last three years. It wasn’t stolen in some dramatic hack but quietly lost [insert: stolen, intercepted, acquired] by the systems that were supposed to protect it, healthcare providers, business associates, and digital services I never opted into bu

The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are rightly concerned.

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

“But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during a talk at Stanford that has been pulled offline.

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Cursor AI tells user, “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work.”…

The terrible term describes a key tactic for criminals perpetrating investment and romance scams

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in

AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling the internet for up-to-date, relevant information—content that is often produced by news publishers.  Yet a troubling imbalance has emerged: while traditional search […]

Gödel was always right... Gödel is the man who shattered the illusion of discrete computing being able to reason before Turing even dreamed of Enigma. Before… | 39 comments on LinkedIn

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.

Hinton-- the Godfather of Artificial Illusion Geoffrey Hinton’s work shaped what we call AI today. Building on the foundations of Hopfield networks and… | 40 comments on LinkedIn

Probabilistic generalizations based on internet content are not steps toward algorithmic moral personhood, write David McNeill and Emily Tucker.

Artificial Neural Networks have reached “grandmaster” and even “super-human” performance across a variety of games, from those involving perfect information,...

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Embodied, maker of the AI robot called Moxie, is shuttering. With their closing, parents have to explain to their kids that Moxie is dead.

The Humane AI pin died on the way back to its home planet

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full traini...