Digital Ethics

The plagiarism detector will introduce its AI detection tool tomorrow, hoping to protect academic integrity in a post-ChatGPT world. The speedy launch and lack of an opt-out have academics worried.

This past week I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Ruha Benjamin at Princeton University as part of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students’ FOCUS...

These computer scientists were trying to create privacy-preserving smart sensors. But then they were accused of violating their colleagues’ privacy.

Clearview AI has been used by the police nearly a million times in the US, it tells the BBC.

ChatGPT and other new AI services benefit from a science fiction-infused marketing frenzy unlike anything in recent memory. There's more to fear here than killer robots.

Linguistics professor Emily M. Bender and DAIR Director of Research Alex Hanna take AI hype down a peg in this series, poking holes in the cottage industry that is artificial intelligence.

Lots of people are talking about Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute right now. So I thought I'd put together a thread about Yudkowsky for the general public and journalists (such as those at @TIME). I hope this is useful. 🧵— Émile P. Torres (they/them) (@xriskology) April 1, 2023

SUPPORT ON PATREON: http://patreon.com/adamconoverSEE ME LIVE ON TOUR: http://adamconover.net/tourdatesVISIT USAFACTS: https://bit.ly/3TZyUK3The real risk of...

The Tesla CEO called for a pause in chatbot development. But he’s pushing something much more dangerous.

Musk’s letter urging a moratorium on advanced AI development, which contradicts Tesla’s pursuit of full self-driving, is an attempt to put himself back at the… | 268 comments on LinkedIn

Lax labour regulations and low wages are the norm for data annotation workers in poorer nations, but many have no choice

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.