Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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AI framework is a ‘soft stick’ to guide govt: Oppermann - InnovationAus via inkl
The New South Wales Government’s new artificial intelligence assurance framework is a “soft stick” intended at providing the guard rails…
Sven Nyholm on Twitter
"What, if any, harm can a self-driving car do?" - blog post by Fiona Woollard (@f_woollard), which summarises the ideas in her great recent article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy about what she calls "the new trolley problem": https://t.co/tQxZ8z7ztu— Sven Nyholm (@SvenNyholm) October 12, 2022
TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
Children are among those pleading for hours for digital gifts, as the company takes a cut of up to 70%.
New iPhone Crash Collision Feature Is Calling 911 For People On Rollercoasters
The only emergency here is needing a change of pants.
The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI
A new bill will allow consumers to sue companies for damages—if they can prove that a company’s AI harmed them.
Tech firms say laws to protect us from bad AI will limit ‘innovation’. Well, good | John Naughton
For too long, the industry has escaped legal liability in the pursuit of its own interests – and the EU has had enough
Instagram still hosting self-harm images after Molly Russell inquest verdict - The Guardian via inkl
Online content was blamed for the 14-year-old’s death yet some harmful posts remain live on site, including suicide-related content
There’s something missing from the White House’s AI ethics blueprint
Can we get some laws, please?
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility
As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is important to understand how the affordances of social media shape social knowledge of morality and politics. Here, we propose that social media users overperceive levels of moral outrage felt by individuals and groups, inflating beliefs about intergroup hostility. Utilizing a Twitter field survey, we measured authors’ moral outrage in real time and compared authors’ reports to observers’ judgments of the authors’ moral outrage. We find that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors of those messages actually reported. This effect was stronger in participants who spent more time on social media to learn about politics. Pre-registered confirmatory behavioral experiments found that overperception of individuals’ moral outrage causes overperception of collective moral outrage and inflates beliefs about hostile communication norms, group affective polarization and ideological extremity. Together, these results highlight how individual-level overperceptions of online moral outrage produce collective overperceptions that have the potential to warp our social knowledge of moral and political attitudes.
17 ways to make your website more energy efficient
We provide a a handy list of the top things you can do to minimise wasted energy and ensure the products you create are as energy efficient as possible.
Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms
Exclusive: Epic has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy, according to documents obtained by STAT.
Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice - KQED
Alice Wong can no longer speak. But she still has a voice.
The White House just unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights
It's the first big step to hold AI to account.
SafeGraph to Close Digital Shop That Sold Abortion Clinic Location Data
Motherboard previously revealed that SafeGraph was selling location data related to visits to Planned Parenthood facilities.
Transcript of We Went Back to See How These Reforms Worked | 70 Million
Mitzi Miller: I’m Mitzi Miller, and this is 70 Million. Over three seasons so far, 70 Million has covered the country f
Surveillance shift: San Francisco pilots program allowing police to live monitor private security cameras
The trial would give law enforcement access to live footage by consenting residents, a departure from the city’s previous stance
Commentary: ‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation - CNA
The rapid growth of dark data raises significant questions about the efficiency of current digital practices, say two professors.
AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability - Waxy.org
Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
Bruce Willis Sells Deepfake Likeness Rights So His 'Twin' Can Star in Future Movies
Actor Bruce Willis, who recently announced his retirement from acting, sells his deepfake likeness rights so his face can continue to appear in films.
'Fighting in the war against Ukraine is a crime' Philosopher Arseny Kumankov on why Russians have a moral duty to evade the draft — Meduza
Participating in the war against Ukraine is a moral crime. For this reason, we have an obligation to do everything possible to avoid becoming complicit in this aggressive, unjust war. There are a number of reasons to regard Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent mobilization this way. The first reason is that the Russian government has violated its social contract with its people. The second reason is that people are being sent to war by an illegitimate power that is playing on a false sense of patriotism. And the third reason is that the war itself is a criminal act of aggression against the citizens of Ukraine. The last reason is the primary one. But I’ll begin with the points that apply directly to Russians.
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism
A checklist for avoiding hype
Advocacy groups slam Amazon and MGM's controversial 'Ring Nation' show ahead of its premiere
Over forty human rights groups signed a letter calling on Amazon and MGM to cancel "Ring Nation," which premieres tonight.
iPhone = Privacy?
Where were you on Monday, September 8, 2014? How much time do you spend outside of your house every day? How many times have you visited your doctor this year? How many messages have you sent to this other guy when your boyfriend was out of town? While you may
Why Feelings of Guilt May Signal Leadership Potential
Axios Codebook
Decode key cybersecurity news and insights. With Sam Sabin.
3 Life Lessons From the Man Who Saved the World
What we can learn from the Soviet Colonel who saved billions of lives
Deepfake audio has a tell – researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices - The Conversation via inkl
Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars
The data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum.
Abeba Birhane on Twitter
3 weeks ago LAION-400M dataset (now a billion+), first Image-Alt-text pair dataset of this scale was released. @vinayprabhu, @MannyKayy & I dug into it https://t.co/6JG4c876tV Long tread 1/Warning: paper contains NSFW content that may be disturbing, distressing &/or offensive pic.twitter.com/pv5BTyWhLm— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) October 6, 2021