Digital Ethics

AI is a part of everyday life in countless ways, and how we choose to regulate it will shape our societies. EU lawmakers must use this opportunity to craft a law that harnesses the opportunities without undermining the protection of our rights or the rule of law, Eva Simon and Jonathan Day write.

Scientific Reports - Humans inherit artificial intelligence biases

OpenAI and Google might respect robots.txt but how about the others?

Angus Deaton says Larry Summers and other great minds in the profession have lost sight of its most important mission: Improving people’s lives.

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

Consumers are not sufficiently trained to distinguish fake images and videos online from reality. So who gets to be the arbiter of truth? On AI IRL, Jackie…

Palantir, the analytics company led by Peter Thiel, has courted N.H.S. England with pandemic help and assertive lobbying. Its big reward may be yet to come.

Let’s not spend too much time daydreaming.

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda Williams says recreations of her late father made with artificial intelligence are “disturbing.”

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on “AI in the Workplace: New…

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On Twitter, my colleague Jack Stilgoe mused that the term "democratize" was losing all meaning. In my opinion the term has always been a libertarian-anarchist… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

In this final video in the series on GPT-4, Jason Gorman summarises his experiences with GPT-4 in a range of software development tasks, discusses where he s...

Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones

By now, many organizations using, building, or incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are realizing that they need to invest in AI ethics. The…

By Jai Vipra & Sarah Myers WestSeptember 27, 2023 In this article What is compute and why does it matter? How is the demand for compute shaping AI development? What kind of hardware is involved? What are the components of compute hardware? What does the supply chain for AI hardware look like? What does the […]

Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.

The new Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses look like regular shades, but can record and livestream video with little warning to those around it.

Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime.

He insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?

Hindu vigilantes have long tried to stop the cow trade, often carried out by Muslims, but have become more extreme and flamboyant thanks to American social media platforms that reward them with large online followings.

Google is indexing conversations with its AI chatbot in search results. Users should be cautious as private chats may become public.

Facebook has retreated from its professed ideals in India under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith

A specter is haunting the landscape—the specter of generative AI. First came fears that student cheating would explode, plus that artists and actors would be unemployed. Then the ante was upped: So…

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

More than 20 Spanish girls in the small town of Almendralejo have so far come forward as victims.