Digital Ethics

Adaptive algorithms have been linked to terrorist attacks and beneficial social movements. Governing them requires new science on collective human–algorithm behaviour.

The Federal Trade Commission today issued a warning that the increasing use of consumers’ biometric information and related technologies, including those powered by machine learni

The collections industry is pushing GPT-4 as a dystopian new way to make borrowers pay up, replicating the debt system’s long history of racial bias.

Artificial general intelligence could be our species' final invention

China’s embrace of artificial intelligence for warfare has touched off alarm bells everywhere from Silicon Valley to the Pentagon.

The trouble with computers: you get exactly what you ask for. Ask a robot waiter to serve table eight’s food immediately and it might just throw it. An AI that’s trying to earn you money might decide the best way is to sell your house. It’s not enough to tell machines what to do; you…

Natalie Cramp and Alastair Dent of data consultancy Profusion, set out the impact of generative AI on data ethics on day 2 of the Computing Cybersecurity Festival.

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?