Digital Ethics

Portugal's data regulator has ordered Sam Altman's iris-scanning project Worldcoin to stop collecting biometric data for 90 days, it said on Tuesday, in the latest regulatory blow to a venture that has raised privacy concerns in multiple countries.

In a Q&A, MIT PhD student and recent Design Fellow Jonathan Zong discusses a new proposed framework to map how individuals can say “no” to technology misuses.

Ambient clinical documentation was the talk of the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, this year.

The computing centers use vast amounts of power and water. That’s led to a battle over a bill meant to lure the lucrative operations into Colorado.

The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.

Updates for old friends, and for new followers some links back to where we've been

New report on AI regulation in Africa! It’s the first I've seen and it's excellent. Some highlights and reflections. ➤ The report, by the Tech Hive Advisory,… | 40 comments on LinkedIn

The AI Industry’s Creation Myth

The discrepancies between the companies’ public promises — and their execution — raises questions about their commitment to providing accurate information during this high-stakes election year.

For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work… | 13 comments on LinkedIn

“Nordic states are letting go of values and infrastructure resources that are dear to the welfare state", writes Julia Velkova, adding: "Rather than bending to Big Tech values and modes of operation, we should have them bend to comply with our Nordic, public values, if they are to operate in the region".

Firms like OpenAI and Meta use strict protocols to keep bad actors from abusing AI systems. But researchers argue these rules are chilling independent evaluations.

Impelled by the intertwined expansion of capitalist institutions and fossil-fueled industry, human activity has made devastating impacts on ecosystems and earth...

A growing chorus of academics say the sky-high cost of working with AI models is boxing researchers out of the field, compromising independent study of the technology.

Mapping the water footprint of AI.

Exploring the Legal Framework for Emotion in Emotion Recognition Tech

Google workers and NYC community protest outside the Mind The Tech Conference in NYC on March 4th, 2024.

The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.

Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.

It looks like Microsoft may be filtering violent AI outputs flagged by engineer.

AI isn't nearly as popular as some would have you believe — and it seems that public opinion is shifting against it.

We argue that the high energy use by present-day semiconductor computing technology will prevent the emergence of an artificial intelligence system that could reasonably be described as a “superintelligence”. This hard limit on artificial superintelli

Shocking new paper with potentially serious implications

Patronus AI on Wednesday released research showcasing how often leading AI models produce copyrighted content.

Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.

The next generation of AI comes with a familiar bias problem.

AI’s social benefits are unproven but its harms are clear. We must kick out the bad politics and mould a better future, says Dan McQuillan.