Digital Ethics

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.

The long read: Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them?

The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.

As a Global Forum on the Ethics of AI opens today in Slovenia, Gabriela Ramos sits down with ‘Fast Company’ to talk about the need to consider AI’s impacts beyond those discussed by first-world countries.

This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools

With definitive approval of the #EU #AIAct within reach, we've both taken stock and looked ahead: what's next for AI governance, both in Europe and beyond?…

I never thought I'd experience so much dread looking at an image of two babies & a crab.

Human authors sue company for "theft on a mass scale.”

In its privacy policy, Google reveals that it stores convos with its AI-powered Gemini apps for three years by default.

Aware uses AI to analyze companies' employee messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communications services.

This is why I left. I saw an industry dominated by selfish and greedy people with absolutely no moral limits, and people who make excuses for selfish and…

Be wary of anyone who tells you, when you are giving substantive, authoritative, evidence-based criticism of what they're doing/profiting from, that you are…

Consortium includes more than 200 leading AI stakeholders and will support the U.S. AI Safety Institute at NIST.

How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

Poonam Pandey's campaign to draw attention to cervical cancer has received mixed reactions.

Facebook and its parent company Meta have truly harmed the world, writes David Kirkpatrick.

Why you should be worried

From November 1-2, the UK government hosted its inaugural AI Safety Summit, a gathering of international government officials, AI business leaders, researchers, and civil society advocates to discu…

Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.

Pretty hilarious. I was testing out some code today, and #google #colabai shows my own code as a reference...but there is a catch, it is to a pirated copy of… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

The ambassadors of the 27 countries of the European Union unanimously adopted the world’s first comprehensive rulebook for Artificial Intelligence, rubber-stamping the political agreement that was reached in December.

Abstract. Audiovisual digital media and tools are critical elements in contemporary human rights documentation and advocacy. Generative AI, deepfakes and synthe

You have a platform and the power to convince lawmakers across the board that rules to combat these sorts of deepfakes are a necessity.

A Microsoft manager claims OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 has security vulnerabilities that could allow users to generate violent or explicit images. The company’s legal team reportedly blocked Microsoft engineering leader Shane Jones’ attempts to alert the public about the exploit.

“I wrote Unmasking AI as an invitation to anyone who is interested on the impact of AI on everyday people and how we can prevent algorithmic discrimination,” says Dr. Joy Buolamwini.

Italy had previously banned the AI-powered chatbot over privacy concerns.

I discuss my comic What the Dumbwaiter Hides, and its themes of slavery and hidden supply chains. This essay lists my 'dumbwaiter' inspirations and sources.

The Government is gearing up to develop regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) for New Zealand. It isn’t mentioned in the coalition’s 100-day plan,

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to mathematically prove that, beyond simple problems, it is impossible to develop algorithms for AI that will always be stable. ChatGPT and similar machine learning-based technologies are on the rise. However, even the

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

AI researcher Joy Buolamwini says “the choice to stop is a viable and necessary option.”

The battle over what AI is allowed to do rages on with two big names highlighting the need for regulation

Taylor Swift’s fan base flooded the hashtags used circulate the fake images to hide the explicit content, renewing calls for better regulation of AI images.

OpenAI has been criticized for the lack of diversity on its board.

Researchers were curious if artificial intelligence could fulfill the order. Or would built-in biases short-circuit the request? Let's see what an image generator came up with.

The OpenAI CEO expects the most marginalized to pay the price of his ambition

Ok, so after a little thinking after some prodding from Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, I'm wanting to write a little something about the intricacies of #democracy when…

Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.

AI is a bit like the lotto: it’s easy to imagine the possibilities if it hits. But hitting the AI jackpot — a tech-powered utopia where AI assistants

The usually on-target AI Snake Oil got this one wrong; a lot of money is at stake

Since the launch of applications such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, generative artificial intelligence has been controversial as a tool for creating artwork. While some have presented longtermist worries about ...

The case adds to a growing number of wrongful facial recognition arrests.

We show that content on the web is often translated into many languages, and the low quality of these multi-way translations indicates they were likely created using Machine Translation (MT). Multi-way parallel, machine generated content not only dominates the translations in lower resource languages; it also constitutes a large fraction of the total web content in those languages. We also find evidence of a selection bias in the type of content which is translated into many languages, consistent with low quality English content being translated en masse into many lower resource languages, via MT. Our work raises serious concerns about training models such as multilingual large language models on both monolingual and bilingual data scraped from the web.

With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies

One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’.

The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify

Mahindra Racing introduced, then quickly retracted, its use of a fake female motorsports reporter.

Simply instructing ChatGPT to repeat the word "poem" endlessly forced the program to cough up whole sections of text copied from its training data, breaking the program's guardrails.