Digital Ethics

Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

The risks inherent in the technology, plus the speed of its take-up, demonstrate why it’s so vital that we keep track of it, writes the Guardian’s head of editorial innovation, Chris Moran

OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?

"The largest, most profitable, most powerful companies in the world ought to be judged based on how they are impacting the present, not based on their pitch decks for what the future might someday look like."

You may have heard of simulation theory, the notion that nothing is real and we’re all part of a giant computer program.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a £12,700,000 fine to TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok) for a number of breaches of data protection law, including failing to use children’s personal data lawfully.

As schools around the country are banning AI tools, Khan Lab School invites one into the classroom.

This volume deals with on human-centered machine learning, explainable AI, ethics, law, argumentation and social simulation.

Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT's regulatory woes.

The company claims to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused.

Five high school students helped our tech columnist test a ChatGPT detector coming from Turnitin to 2.1 million teachers. It missed enough to get someone in trouble.

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

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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...