Digital Ethics

"Let's wait 20 years, and if an AI wins an Oscar for Best Screenplay, I think we've got to take them seriously," he told Canada's CTV News.

Generative AI is headed towards in Napster moment. Many may not understand this, but that’s OK. It’s moving pretty clearly in that direction. I’ve seen a great…

The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

OpenAI is under FTC investigation, as of five days ago. Here are some highlights and reflections about the investigation. ➤ Background   👉The FTC opened…

An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind. But its ability to put a name to a face is one reason the public doesn’t have access to it.

As potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to expand, the question remains: will users want the technology and trust it? This blog post explores how to measure the trustworthiness of AI.

Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them.

Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers, actors, social media companies and news organizations are among those rebelling.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI on claims it has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk, the strongest regulatory threat to the Microsoft-backed startup yet.

Nora Roberts, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon and Margaret Atwood are among those signing an Authors Guild letter asking artificial intelligence companies to get permission or offer compensation.

Although high degrees of reliability have been found for many types of forecasts purportedly due to the existence of accountability, public forecasts of technology are rarely assessed and continue to have a poor reputation. This paper’s analysis of forecasts made by MIT’s Technology Review provides a rare assessment and thus a means to encourage accountability. It first shows that few of the predicted “breakthrough technologies” currently have large markets. Only four have sales greater than $10 billion while eight technologies not predicted by Technology Review have sales greater than $10 billion including three with greater than $100 billion and one other with greater than $50 billion. Second, possible reasons for these poor forecasts are then discussed including an over emphasis on the science-based process of technology change, sometimes called the linear model of innovation. Third, this paper describes a different model of technology change, one that is widely used by private companies and that explains the emergence of those technologies that have greater than $10 billion in sales. Fourth, technology change and forecasts are discussed in terms of cognitive biases and mental models.

Media titan Barry Diller confirmed Sunday he and a group of “leading publishers” plan to take legal action regarding the use of published works in training artificial intelligence (AI) systems.   D…

With the "ShareWithCare" campaign, Deutsche Telekom wants to raise awareness for responsible handling of photos and data.

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"Coning" autonomous vehicles is part of a long tradition of tactical urbanism.

Authors, artists and publishers are suing tech companies that used copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence programs.

A new Slack feature developed by wearable health tech company Oura foreshadows an unnerving, dystopian future work culture.

The EU AI Act will bring about a new era of AI regulation impacting organisations in Europe and beyond. But what does this mean?

Discover everything you need to know about photo statistics - Number of photos taken daily, number of photos on Google, and much more!

Picture yourself stepping into any city or destination you've always dreamt of visiting. Now you can, all from the comfort of your own home.

Beloved musician Elis Regina died aged 36 in 1982 but a new Volkswagen commercial shows her duetting with her daughter

"We do not use AI tools for HR," CEO Alex Nichiporchik insists

Interview with Joanna Batstone, Professor & Director, Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University filmed at the AI For Good Global Summit 2023, Geneva, Switzerland #aiforgood

Users of OpenAI's GPT-4 are complaining that the AI model is performing worse lately. Industry insiders said a redesign of GPT-4 could be to blame.

Y'all it is all happening so fast. Read my book. Be prepared. (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/) Woman in Portland has to look up at a facial recognition camera before she can walk into a gas station convenience store: https://www.tiktok.com/@karmifaye/video/6844038219017866501

If there was a generative artificial intelligence system that could, on its own, write all the information contained in Wikipedia, would it be the same as Wikipedia today?

In 2016, the artist Deborah Roberts created “Pluralism Series,” a series of prints that, borrowing the aesthetic of a Microsoft Word document, lists the names of Black people. Name after name has that jarring squiggly red line underneath it, as if it was a misspelling. I know this squiggly red li

San Francisco police request driverless car footage from Waymo and Cruise to solve crimes from robberies to murders

The FTC is demanding documents from Open AI, ChatGPT's creator, about data security and whether its chatbot generates false information.

Federal Trade Commission seems to be one of the most active regulators addressing #AI related questions these days. This article references an information…

In February, the 3D database Sketchfab introduced a NoAI tag for authors. But that was too late, as it now turns out.

The Federal Trade Commission charged that the developer of the fertility app Premom deceived users by sharing their sensitive personal information with third parties, including two China-based firm

This is a must watch testimony by the one and only Karla Ortiz. Starts at about 31:30, about 5 minutes. Covers things from data laundering to stealing data…

Creating AI Guidelines for your company's AI usage 🚀💡What should you include? When your company uses AI, it's crucial to create clear internal guidelines…

Aside from probably the launch of ChatGPT, I can't ever recall a recent time in which the internet was THIS excited. While I personally believed that Zuckerberg

Here's a deck I made summarizing the Act, which will regulated AI in the EU.

Internal documents show complex instructions for chatbot feedback that workers are asked to complete in minutes

If there’s a 10% chance that human-level artificial intelligence (AI) would lead to existential risk or an “extremely negative outcome”, what would you do? We get the experts to weigh in on the development of AI and untangle the deep, complex questions it raises.

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

The platform’s parent company has gotten into several knots before about mishandling sensitive information

The one you’re reading this in, for starters.

The capacity of AI to generate content is overwhelming the web.

"Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."

A dazzlingly fast chatbot cannot replace the authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

Over half of essays written by people were wrongly flagged as AI-made, with implications for students and job applicants

The competitive nature of AI development poses a dilemma for organizations, as prioritizing speed may lead to neglecting ethical guidelines, bias detection, and safety measures. Known and emerging concerns associated with AI in the workplace include the spread of misinformation, copyright and intellectual property concerns, cybersecurity, data privacy, as well as navigating rapid and ambiguous regulations. To mitigate these risks, we propose thirteen principles for responsible AI at work.

False and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine are being widely shared.

We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.