Digital Ethics

In the past few months we have been deluged with headlines about new AI tools and how much they are going to change society.  Some reporters have done amazing work holding the companies developing AI accountable, but many struggle to report on this new technology in a fair and accurate way.   We — an investigative […]

Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.

Google has updated its privacy policy to say that "publicly available" data will be used to train Brad and Cloud AI.

Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse

A new bill will allow consumers to sue companies for damages—if they can prove that a company’s AI harmed them.

Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who just ended his two-month world tour, and Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque. Still, one of the most compelling conversations happened later in the afternoon, in a panel discussion about AI […]

The United Nations is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence and to harness its potential for empowering humanity.

The recent sale of an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated portrait for $432,000 at Christie's art auction has raised questions about how credit and responsibility should be allocated to individuals involved and how the anthropomorphic perception of ...

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

Tech companies acknowledge machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and need improvement.

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

A health algorithm that uses health costs as a proxy for health needs leads to racial bias against Black patients.

The flood of misinformation on social media could actually be worse than many researchers have reported. The problem is that many studies analyzed only text, leaving visual misinformation uncounted.

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

In Argentina, indigenous communities marched demanding the suspension of lithium mining projects in the region. https://bnn.network/world/argentina/argentinas-san-salvador-erupts-in-violence-over-lithium-mining/ In Thacker Pass,USA, it is planned to pour sulfuric acid on land that is sacred to indigenous peoples. https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/im-being-sued-for-defending-the-land?nthPub=61 In the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic lithium mining will devastate indigenous peoples and Nature https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-mining/2022/06/russias-new-lithium-mine-will-inflict-big-harm-arctic-nature-sami-activist In Bolivia lithium mining will devastate the Aymara and Quechua indigenous peoples. https://theconversation.com/raw-materials-or-sacred-beings-lithium-extraction-puts-two-worldviews-into-tension-200047

Reddit has now sufficiently broken their own site that moderators of the blind community's subreddit who are themselves blind can no longer access the moderator tools. This statement by the mod team is worth a read to understand the full extent of the failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/ Edit: it's also worth noting that this community now has a dedicated Lemmy instance. https://RBlind.com #blind #accessibility #reddit

Because tech industry ethics teams lack resources and authority, their effectiveness is spotty at best, according to a new study.

The company is pushing back a promotional campaign three weeks to get past the news.

A muggle's guide to the wizarding world of the greatest showmen in tech

This paper aims to help policymakers and regulators explore the challenges and nuances of different AI supply chains

Technology forged by private markets won’t solve the world’s problems. It will only amplify them.

The dizzying rise of AI and machine-learning in the last year, made manifest in the popular consciousness by ChatGPT, has followed a familiar pattern. Years (decades!) of specialized research grind…

🔥 BREAKING: New class action against OpenAI over privacy violations. Below are some important quotes from the lawsuit: "The massive, unparalleled collection…

Download pdf Dana’s Answers By Molly Ryan, Summer 2016 Donella “Dana” Meadows was a pioneer in systems thinking and sustainability, a MacArthur Fellow, a professor, a farmer, and a mentor and friend to countless people. Twenty years ago, Dana founded the Sustainability Institute (now called the Donella Meadows Institute) while working as a part-time professor […]

New poll data from Domino Data Lab finds generative AI cannot be outsourced — enterprises need to fine-tune or control their own models.

More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.