Digital Ethics

The Writers Guild of America has its work cut out in the latest struggle against the perennial problem of automation.

Giant AIs abstract away the ‘knowledge of the territory’ in favour of the atlas view of all that is present on the internet. Yet the territory can only be captured by the people doing the tasks that giant AIs are trying to replace.

I’ve been learning a lot lately about how the currently popular AIs that generate images from text prompts work. Now that I can find virtually everything I’ve ever published in those databases, I think it’s time to explain this to others: Opening Remarks I regularly revise and add to this article when I learn something […]

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

Intrigued by reports of the New York case in which lawyers cited non-existent case law produced by generative AI, I took a quick look at the public court… | 45 comments on LinkedIn

AFFIDAVIT of Peter LoDuca in Opposition re: 16 MOTION to Dismiss pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6).. Document filed by Roberto Mata. (Attachments: # 1 Affidavit Affidavit of Steven Schwartz).(LoDuca, Peter) (Entered: 05/25/2023)

A top European Union official says Twitter has dropped out of the bloc's voluntary agreement to combat online disinformation. European Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted Friday that Twitter had pulled out of the EU’s disinformation “code of practice” that other major social media platforms have pledged to support. But he added that Twitter’s “obligation” remained, referring to the EU’s tough new digital rules taking effect in August. San Francisco-based Twitter responded with an automated reply, as it does to most press inquiries, and did not comment.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have successfully been applied to code generation tasks, raising the question of how well these models understand programming. Typical programming languages have...

An interesting thought from Edward Snowden at Consensus 2023 (at 29 min 50 sec, link in the comment), on #AI, understanding of and difference between utility…

I hope all the people who are gushing over Sam Altman's recent statements about AI and regulation take a close look at the document that he and others at Open…

OpenAI's ethics washing: yesterday Altman threatened to stop operating in Europe due to the EU AI Act (far in the future, not now). Contrast with his last… | 13 comments on LinkedIn

With the advent of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) went from a relatively niche topic to something that many, many people have been…

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination

The Online Safety Bill is a model for stripping citizens of their privacy. We won’t go along with it

Here’s how I used AI to clone a 60 Minutes correspondent’s voice to trick a colleague into handing over Sharyn's passport number. I cloned Sharyn’s voice then… | 177 comments on LinkedIn

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing

Neeva was ahead of Google on a lot of things in search — but still couldn’t make users switch

Discover how companies are implementing AI adoption strategies: from Shutterstock to Quora.

Singularism vs. physicalism: two very different ways of looking at AI risk.

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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