Digital Ethics

Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks

The one you’re reading this in, for starters.

A new campaign from Deutsche Telekom and creative agency adam&eveBERLIN demonstrates the increased risks parents face thanks to the rise of data misuse and artificial intelligence (AI). In a hero film, AI is dramatically used to draw attention to risks of itself - AI. In addition to the opportunities of digitalization, Telekom wants to point out the urgency of responsible handling of personal data in the digital world. Pictures of holidays, family celebrations or weekend trips with the whole family - these are emotional moments that friends, and relatives want to share immediately. Often this happens all too carelessly. Once posted on the internet, this personal data is available worldwide and without limits. With the #ShareWithCare campaign, Deutsche Telekom wants to raise awareness for responsible handling of photos and data. The communication kicks off with the oppressive deepfake spot "A Message from Ella". It uses the example of a family to show the consequences of sharing children's photos on the Internet. Telekom draws attention to so-called "sharenting" - a much-criticized practice in which parents share photos, videos, and details of their children's lives online. "Telekom offers the best and most secure network," says Uli Klenke, Chief Brand Officer at Deutsche Telekom. "But in addition to access to this network, we also need the necessary knowledge and tools for safe and responsible handling of data on the Internet. Because the development of artificial intelligence holds opportunities and risks. In the spot, we let the AI warn us about itself. And thus, underline fascination and awe at the same time. We have to learn to deal with both factors appropriately." Deepfake spot raises awareness of the issue of sharenting The film stages and exaggerates a social experiment that could have taken place in the same form - because the technology for it has long been available today. The image of a 9-year-old actress, called "Ella", acts as the film’s protagonist. With the help of the latest AI technology, a deepfake of the girl was created. Deepfakes are videos, images, or even sounds artificially generated by machine learning. In the video, you can see how the "grown-up Ella" turns to her surprised parents. She sends a warning from the future and confronts mother and father with the consequences of sharing pictures of their child on the internet. For the first time, a virtually aged deepfake of a 9-year-old child has been created so that she can act and argue like an adult woman. Ella is representative of an entire generation of children.

New research shows how AI like ChatGPT, Bard and Stable Diffusion could fuel eating disorders with disturbing images and dangerous chatbot advice.

Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136

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Do artifacts have politics? This question has been the subject of decades of discussion in the social sciences and remains pertinent today.

Working from home offered the chance for a great rebalancing of family, friendship and our careers. But the dream is fading fast, writes Arwa Mahdawi

With so much growing interest and fear around AI, it may be helpful to know some history around the term, how it came to be — and why it…

Course overview This course focuses on incorporating ethical AI principles into the systems design process and is taught using a multidisciplinary approach. The course features real-world case studies, first-person narratives, self-reflection worksheets and hands-on coding exercises to maximise learner engagement and ensure they can immediately apply what they learn in their work or research context. The learning experience includes provocative thought experiments to challenge and stimulate understanding of ethical considerations in AI.

With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.

Text-to-image models amplify stereotypes about race and gender — here’s why that matters

In the past few months, the FTC has announced case after case involving consumers’ sensitive health data, alleging violations of both Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule. The privacy of health information is top of mind for consumers – and so it’s top of mind for the FTC. Companies collecting or using health data, listen up. There are a number of key messages from BetterHelp, GoodRx, Premom, Vitagene, and other FTC matters that you need to hear.

People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them.

IAPP Summer Privacy Fellow Will Simpson compiles global regulatory approaches to AI governance.

A unique collaboration between outside researchers and Meta has produced its first papers. Is this a ‘new model for platform research’?

People of color — especially Black women — lead the fight against discrimination and other hazards of artificial intelligence.

Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

For decades, the conventional wisdom about Silicon Valley was that it leaned progressive. And by many measures (like donations by Big Tech employees to political candidates), the industry has been…

AI is only as good as the algorithm that operates it, the data that trains it and the law that underpins it. If these are ineffective, as with robo-debt, then calamity can ensue.

Product First is a failure. Sustainable value comes from the pursuit of strong Customer and Employee First cultures.

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

Artists are worried that their work is being fed into AI systems and are taking legal action.

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Excited that our #FAccT paper on Regulating ChatGPT has now been officially published in the proceedings – open access for all! In the main paper, we analyze…

Contractors in Kenya say they were traumatized by effort to screen out descriptions of violence and sexual abuse during run-up to OpenAI’s hit chatbot.