Digital Ethics

The sheer expense of operating AI chatbots could throttle the AI boom.

More and more prominent tech figures are voicing concerns about superintelligent AI and risks to the future of humanity. But as eading AI ethicist Timnit Gebru and researcher Émile P Torres point out, these ideologies have explicitly racist foundations. TESCREAL “So another “godfather” of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align […]

Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and some misleading claims from founder Emad Mostaque.

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Federal and state enforcers in the US “need to be vigilant early” as artificial intelligence develops to ensure businesses comply with existing laws and ensure the biggest companies don’t use their power to kill off promising innovations, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said.

Building Transparent and Explainable AI to make AI more transparent and interpretable to humans, particularly in complex decision-making scenarios.

IAPP Principal Researcher, Technology, Katharina Koerner explores the growing demand for techniques to anonymize or deidentify personal data.

By resisting this technology, we retain autonomy as educators, Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira writes.

EPIC has just released a new report detailing the wide variety of harms that new generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E pose! While many of these tools have been lauded for their capability to produce new and believable text, images, audio, and videos, the rapid integration of generative AI technology into consumer-facing products has undermined years-long efforts to make AI development transparent and accountable.

Footage of potential human rights abuses may be lost after platforms delete it, the BBC has found.

Why are tech billionaires pretending to be scared?

Updated April 19, 2023 Since ChatGPT launched On November 30, 2022 it’s taken the world by storm. People are using it to create poems, essays for school, and song lyrics. It’s also making inroads in the workplace. According to data from Cyberhaven’s product, as of April 19, 9.3% of employees have used ChatGPT in the […]

TikTok accounts are posting horrifying artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise

People don’t like saying AI “ethics”. I think that’s a mistake. Name your problems accurately if you’re going to solve them effectively. #ai #ethics #aiethics

The fine line between persuasion and manipulation: who will protect the user?

One of the evergreen debates repeatedly reignited by technological advancements and their adoption has been the fear of how it will lead to wholesale replacement of jobs. However, historical data and trends show that technology has the potential to create more jobs and not necessarily lead to mass u

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AI-driven art generation can be fun and delightful, but it's also frustrating and disturbing. Two leading tools need a lot of UX work.

One of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence discusses responsibility, ‘moral outsourcing’ and bridging the gap between people and technology

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

The digital war of tomorrow pitches generative AI against digital ID

The US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could shift the interpretation of fair use law—and all the people, and tools, that turn to it for protection.

In its 7-2 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court said the late artist infringed on a photographer's copyright when he created a series of works based on an image of the pop star Prince.

A new study in Denmark used machine learning techniques on photographs of faces of Danish politicians to predict whether their political ideology is left- or right-wing. The accuracy of predictions was 61%. Faces of right-wing politicians were more likely to have happy and less likely to have neutral facial expressions. Women with attractive faces were more likely to be right-wing, while women whose faces showed contempt were more likely to be left-wing. The study was published in Scientific Reports. ...

Discord's captcha asked users to identify a 'Yoko,' a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.

We’re currently witnessing a technological disruption that will have an unimaginable impact on our society. The only problem is, that we haven’t dealt with racked up ethical debt in the tech industry, and now we’re building the future on a shaky foundation. In this article you will find out why caring about ethics is risk management, and brand protection.

Automated dialogue or conversational systems are anthropomorphised by developers and personified by users. While a degree of anthropomorphism is inevitable, conscious and unconscious design choices can guide users to personify them to varying degrees. Encouraging users to relate to automated systems as if they were human can lead to transparency and trust issues, and high risk scenarios caused by over-reliance on their outputs. As a result, natural language processing researchers have begun to investigate factors that induce personification and develop resources to mitigate such effects. However, these efforts are fragmented, and many aspects of anthropomorphism have yet to be considered. In this paper, we discuss the linguistic factors that contribute to the anthropomorphism of dialogue systems and the harms that can arise, arguing that it can reinforce stereotypes of gender roles and notions of acceptable language. We recommend that future efforts towards developing dialogue systems take particular care in their design, development, release, and description; and attend to the many linguistic cues that can elicit personification by users.