Digital Ethics

You could sell your textbook on the blockchain.

Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, research suggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn. The bill...

I’m preparing for a talk about inclusion in AI and the need for more diversity in the field. While I was aware that the field of AI was hugely skewed towards men, I had no idea of the extent of it's misogynistic conference culture. In particular, one story about the battle to change the offensive name of a well established conference stood out as a symbol of bigger problems. For decades, one of the leading global AI conferences went by the acronym “NIPS” which stood for Neural Information Proce

Attached: 1 image Reading David F. Noble's "Progress without People" and this one page basically explains why one has to oppose the whole crypto space.

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Micah Goodman Spring 2022

Privacy concerns are forcing an end to tracking cookies, and the industry can't agree on what's next.

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Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla.

The NHTSA is now investigating a stunning total of 39 Tesla crashes.

As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works

This article shares a breakdown of the zebra business model - one that is both profitable and improves society and discusses how we’re thinking about growth.

Moscow incident occurred because child ‘violated’ safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official

Early in 2009, I offered the world some tech advice that I have regretted pretty much ever since: I told…

Demanding accountability is important. But cancellations may lead to missing out on meaningful conversations

AI-Generated Lies Every Day

“Photoshopping nipples over my own breasts works, but just having my breasts out doesn’t.”

Musk is sweet on "longtermism," a vision of deep-future human happiness that's even crazier than you think

Musk, the world’s richest man, pledged to pay $54.20 a share for Twitter, but now wants to back out of…

“So OpenAI *did* make a change to DALL-E 2 that does show more diverse images. Unfortunately, in my testing this further reduces the signal-to-noise of the generated images with respect to prompts. https://t.co/70DCetMFkg”

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The fast-growing educational technology industry is poorly regulated and profits from user data. Australian law, education departments and schools can all do more to improve safeguards for children.

The Norwegian hacker talks about her new venture aimed at protecting journalists and critics from powerful adversaries.

When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous…

Danska skolelever får inte längre använda Googles Chromebook-datorer efter att landets tillsynsmyndighet varnat för att deras personuppgifter kan komma på avvägar och skickas till USA, rapporterar TT.

Heineman became the first national gaming champion in 1980 but didn’t truly begin the process of finding self-worth until recognizing she was transgender in the 2000s.

In viral videos, content creators film themselves surprising strangers with toys, food and wads of cash – whether they like…

Like it or not, Amazon can give Ring footage to cops without your permission — or even a warrant.

The revelation highlights the many ways that police can get footage from Ring doorbells, and how often it happens without consent.

The architecture of MLOps systems require a broad range of non-trivial considerations at every stage of the model lifecycle. This is an excellent overview of the end-to-end components present in MLOps architectures https://t.co/QLvgQCUEZj pic.twitter.com/L21w2twQk1— The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning (@EthicalML) July 12, 2022