Digital Ethics

This article explores the current differences between human and machine learning, from an artist’s perspective. This post is an adaptation from a personal twitter thread from Nov.28th, 2022

Below is a lightly edited version of the tweet/toot thread I put together in the evening of Tuesday March 28, in reaction to the open…

Do loose prompts* sink ships? Exploring the cyber security issues of ChatGPT and LLMs.

Her new organization, DAIR, will raise the alarm about how AI is being deployed today and use AI to speak truth to power.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy stirred the AI researcher hornets’ nest this week by repeating a number of ill-informed, and increasingly...

OpenAI has confirmed a ChatGPT data breach as a security firm reported seeing the use of a component affected by an exploited vulnerability.

The danger posed by conversational AI isn't that it can say weird or dark things; it's that it can manipulate you without your knowledge.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy should have kept this one in the drafts.

Venture capitalists love disruptive startups that can scale quickly and keep regulators at bay. But as society becomes more aware of the unintended consequences of new enterprises, especially ones that create technology that becomes a part of our daily life, the people who launch these ventures must become more attentive to and proactive about identifying potential unintended consequences, in order to mitigate them early.

An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.

Imagining the first "I vow never to use #AI to draft things I write or say to you" vows... #ethics #chatbots https://t.co/b5nppvnHQ9— Internet Ethics (@IEthics) March 27, 2023

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Artificial General Intelligence and White Supremacy

A platform that can mimic humans’ writing with no commitment to the truth is a gift for those who benefit from disinformation, says Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism

Australian employer, business tech and research groups have formed an alliance to tackle responsible AI by developing best practice guidance, tools and training for Australian companies using the high-risk technology. The Responsible AI Network to be launched Thursday includes the industry groups alongside standards, ethics and research organisations. No consumer…

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

In this episode, we discuss Meredith Broussard's influential new book, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech – published by MIT Press.   Meredith is a data journalist, an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Jo...

Poe lets you use ChatGPT alongside a new rival named Claude — which seems to work better in important ways.

Candace Nelson Sweet Success

If you've logged on to any social media app this week, you've probably seen pictures of your friends, but re-imagined as fairy princesses, animé characters, or celestial beings.

Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.

A wave of state and local reforms could lead to predictive algorithms that change lives for the better, instead of the worse.

Silicon Valley is agog over the capabilities of ChatGPT. They shouldn't be

AI's unique legal and ethical considerations have prompted some organizations to take a definitive public stance.

Sam Altman stresses need to guard against negative consequences of technology, as company releases new version GPT-4

From lawsuits to IT hacks, the creative industries are deploying a range of tactics to protect their jobs and original work from automation

The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous

How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence