Digital Ethics

Matthew Butterick is leading a wave of lawsuits against major AI firms, from OpenAI to Meta. Win or lose, his work will shape the future of human creativity.

Llama 2-Chat is a collection of large language models that Meta developed and released to the public. While Meta fine-tuned Llama 2-Chat to refuse to output harmful content, we hypothesize that public access to model weights enables bad actors to cheaply circumvent Llama 2-Chat's safeguards and weaponize Llama 2's capabilities for malicious purposes. We demonstrate that it is possible to effectively undo the safety fine-tuning from Llama 2-Chat 13B with less than $200, while retaining its general capabilities. Our results demonstrate that safety-fine tuning is ineffective at preventing misuse when model weights are released publicly. Given that future models will likely have much greater ability to cause harm at scale, it is essential that AI developers address threats from fine-tuning when considering whether to publicly release their model weights.

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AI is diagnosing diseases and recommending treatments, but the systems aren’t always regulated like drugs or medical devices.

Based on the latest research from the Developer Success Lab, this white paper shares a human-centered, evidence-based framework to help developers thrive during this transition to AI-Assisted coding.

In San Francisco and Austin, Texas, where passengers can hail self-driving vehicles, the cars have added to the workloads of city employees.

A study pitting human children against large language models in basic reasoning problems revealed AIs to have one big blind spot: innovation.

🚨 There is an urgent need for a legal and regulatory framework to deal with deepfake in India.You might have seen this viral video of actress Rashmika Mandanna on Instagram. But wait, this is a deepfake video of Zara Patel.This thread contains the actual video. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/SidP1Xa4sT— Abhishek (@AbhishekSay) November 5, 2023

VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is worried that the AI industry will have to pay billions of dollars in royalties for copyrighted material.

Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.

Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.

Here's why you shouldn't buy ChatGPT access from an eBay reseller.

[Friday evening short video] I'm summarizing a paper that caught my attention this week: "Role play with large language models" by Murray Shanahan, Kyle…

Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposing them to traumatic content.

Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work

The AI boom only underscores a problem that has existed for years.

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI companies with ties to the network.

Nature - Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.

Hospitals and health care systems are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records.

Have you heard these claims? “Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!” or “At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!” In a recent preprint, my co-authors an…

Technical “errors” in Meta products resulted in dehumanizing misrepresentations of Palestinians, writes Nadah Feteih.

OpenAI has said a DDoS attack is behind “periodic outages” affecting ChatGPT and its developer tools

Software engineer Julian Joseph applied to 5,000 jobs using an AI tool called LazyApply. He got 20 interviews.

In comments to the US Copyright Office, some companies said users were responsible when a tool such as ChatGPT answered prompts with infringing material.

How the vast amount of data collected from refugees is gathered, stored and shared today

Artificial intelligence (AI)–synthesized text, audio, image, and video are being weaponized for the purposes of nonconsensual intimate imagery, fin...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are often claimed to offer many societal benefits. Perhaps, the most important is the potential to save countless lives through anticipated improvements in safety by replacing human drivers with AI drivers. AVs will also dramatically...