Digital Ethics

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Campaigners call for transparency from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats about how decisions on pay and jobs are made

My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact… | 108 comments on LinkedIn

A photo of a blurry image of the Moon revealed some telling results.

In early December, news broke that lawmakers were asked to come to the Capitol for a special session to pass a bill.

If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

The more a person uses AI, the less critical thinking they exhibit, researchers find. This insight comes from a very robust study on the use of AI among 666… | 18 comments on LinkedIn

People often talk about “safety” when discussing the risks of AI causing harm. AI safety means different things to different people, and those looking for a definition here will be disappointed.

“Unfortunately, for newcomers who might be excited to dive into this hobby, they could get burned by the inadequate books—and frankly the thievery—of the work of our cherished lacemakers and designers."

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a ubiquitous topic of discussion, with many experts warning about its potential dangers to society. However, a hidden threat lurks beneath the surface, one that could have far-reaching consequences for our health and well-being. This article delves into the unexpected ways AI is impacting our…

😱 Have you ever seen a judge using a VR headset during a hearing? In Florida, a defense attorney wanted the judge to experience firsthand the defendant's… | 57 comments on LinkedIn

Policymakers want to make decisions based on clear data, but important factors are lost when we rely solely on data. A philosopher writes:

The past and future of hot-rodding in America

EFF has spent this year urging governments around the world, from Canada to Australia, to abandon their reckless plans to introduce age verification for a variety of online content under the guise of protecting children online. Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten...

Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester, explains his belief that current AI should not be used for serious applications.

The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.

A new Texas lawsuit against Character.ai, alleging its chatbots poisoned a son against his family, is part of a push to increase oversight of AI companions.

The startup has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion.

Here are just a few reasons it’s dangerous for Trump to have the government’s vast surveillance powers at his disposal.

Internal guidelines passed down from Google led to concerns that the AI model could be prone to inaccurate outputs on topics like healthcare.

Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

“AI’s water consumption could rival agriculture’s, forcing a reckoning between two sectors critical to California’s economy and identity.”

David Golumbia Is there, was there, will there be, a digital turn? In (cultural, textual, media, critical, all) scholarship, in life, in society, in politics, everywhere? What would its principles be? The short prompt I offered to the contributors to this special issue did not presume to know the answers to these questions. That means,...

Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. In contrast to the original […]

Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’...

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.

Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint. His company, You, Only Virtual is part of a growing worldwide 'grief tech' industry harnessing AI to attempt to replace what has naturally departed. The Guardian visited him and one of his clients to attempt to understand his aims, how realistic they may become as the technology develops – and what it says about humanity if we are to be so easily replicated digitally

Apple, Google and Samsung are all working to integrate AI that can generate recipes into their virtual assistants, like Siri. People who work to develop recipes respond.

Access a database of word frequencies, in various natural languages. - rspeer/wordfreq

Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI.

We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer. Your efforts haven’t gone unno...

Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.

As the hype for generative models has been building, so has the colloquial corrective.

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

All seven independent directors on 23andMe's board resigned on Tuesday through a pointed letter addressed to CEO Anne Wojcicki. Here's why.

FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.

Part One of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hopper at NSA in 1982.

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

Good news, everyone! The Three Mile Island power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is restarting to power AI for Microsoft! [Press release; Washington Post, archive; Bloomber…

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

Chat GPT:s väldokumenterade otillförlitlighet hör till de minsta problemen som vidhäftar AI. Teknikens enorma kostnader, ihop med att det fortfarande inte finns några användningsområden som är i närheten av att vara lönsamma, skapar intrycket av ett korthus på väg att rasa.

DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” — Joanna Maciejewska