Emotion A.I., affective computing, and artificial emotional intelligence are all fields creating technology to understand, respond to, measure, and simulate human emotions. Hope runs so high for…
Beware technical solutions to non-technical problems
Technical approaches are only one part of the trust relationship between AI and users You may have heard of an AI method called Explainable Artificial Intelligence or XAI. XAI refers to the discipline that aims to make the behaviour of AI models more understandable.
Your 'smart home' is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police | Technology | The Guardian
Smart-home devices like thermostats and fridges may be too smart for comfort – especially in a country with few laws preventing the sale of digital data to third parties
Our society needs a constructive discourse around ethics in the digital realm, as well as a wide-spread literacy on how to design for ethics in a digitalised environment.
A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt :: SSRN
Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) draw non-intuitive and unverifiable inferences and predictions about the behaviors, preferences, and private
Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation | International Data Privacy Law | Oxford Academic
Key PointsSince approval of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, it has been widely and repeatedly claimed that a ‘right to exp
Bias Preservation in Machine Learning: The Legality of Fairness Metrics Under EU Non-Discrimination Law by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell :: SSRN
Western societies are marked by diverse and extensive biases and inequality that are unavoidably embedded in the data used to train machine learning. Algorithms
Here is what Slack should do: find the people in the org who warned you the DM feature could be abused by bad actors and LISTEN TO THEM NEXT TIME. Find the people who said that was an overreaction or too negative and make sure they understand they were wrong and why.— Laura Klein (@lauraklein) March 25, 2021
In Hungarian, we don’t use he/she there is only one gender pronoun “Ö”. But it’s fascinating when this is fed through Google Translate, the algorithms highlight the biases that are there. Then imagine enacting any kind of change from those biases, encoded into computer code. pic.twitter.com/DygBtaHShU— ρђ๏є๒є Շเςкєɭɭ (@solarpunk_girl) March 20, 2021
AI developers often ignore safety in pursuit of breakthrough—so how do we regulate them without blocking progress?
Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) made the transition from theory to reality, research and development centers across the world have been rushing to come up with the next big AI breakthrough.
Biometric training data privacy suit to go ahead, but Microsoft and Amazon win partial dismissal | Biometric Update
Biometric data privacy suits filed against Microsoft and Amazon will go ahead after a federal judge rejected motions to dismiss the near-identical allegations.
Reading this paper on the applicability of the GDPR to ‘Affective AI’ and it strikes me that humanity has spent an inordinate amount of time, energy and money to merely replicate the efficacy and accuracy of temple prophets fondling sheep entrails for insights— Miss IG Geek (she/her) 🏳️🌈 (@MissIG_Geek) March 18, 2021
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens | WIRED UK
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents