Digital Ethics

There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing.

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Find out more about the disinformation landscape in Sweden.

The tension between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg seems to be deepening.

An "AI girlfriend" chatbot has apparently started doing stuff it's not supposed to — stop us if you've heard this one before.

Attached: 1 image This week, I got pitched by a PR guy who expressed admiration for a book I wrote. Except I didn't write the book and when I Googled the title, no one else had either. I emailed the guy back: "What did you think of the book? 😉" That led him to admit that "someone used ChatGPT" and it gave a bio for me with this invented piece of information. The guy was embarrassed but I found it fascinating. ChatGPT hasn't learned how to tell the truth but it has learned plausibility. Beware, early adopters!

What role does #UX play in #AI? Right now, AI tools are in desperate need of UX to move beyond time-consuming chat interfaces. Long-term, UX practitioners are…

The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone conclusion. Instead, we got here through a series of conscious actions by big businesses and lawmakers that put antitrust law into a 40-year coma....

Experts say generative AI is in uncharted legal waters.

If you're curious about AI in healthcare, check out our book on #GPT4 in medicine, authored by me with @goldbergcarey and @zakkohane. It's on its 3rd print…

Researchers have discovered a method to make OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, consistently racist and sexist.

Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in the name of protecting children online. KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and...

Italy’s GDPR restrictions were just a taste of what lies ahead for ChatGPT.

This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity

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

"There's no giant leap of capability," the researchers said.

The Verge editor-in-chief says media is in denial about the future of search.

The web has long been full of spammy content. AI is on the verge of making it much worse.

I want to see three things from the government regarding regulations and AI that I haven’t seen yet: 1. An articulation of what a company or person might do…

The technology, as it’s currently imagined, promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative imaginable?

More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union

Group has removed AI images used to promote their reports on social media, including fake photos of Colombia’s 2021 protests

Today Apple and Google jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help address the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices.

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A new report documents 49 new websites populated by AI tools like ChatGPT and posing as news outlets

In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead.

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.