Digital Ethics

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

The one positive case for AI

Are recent technological developments in artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionary, calamitous, something in between? Are they inevitable, spontaneous, unpredictable? Jason Tucker examines states who actively shape developments in AI health. The challenge is bringing the public back into decision-making in these developments

Although the industry is still getting to grips with the range of solutions offered by AI, there is no better time to understand the carbon impact of the technology.

As Hollywood execs begin to test artificial intelligence, from using the tech to de-age actors to partnering with companies in the field to create AI-composed music, key players in the industry are pushing for regulations — or lawsuits.

CSET's AI Assessment team provides a template that helps organizations create profiles to guide the management and deployment of AI systems in line with NIST's AI Risk Management Framework.

Seismic advances in generative AI algorithms for imagery, text, and other data types has led to the temptation to use synthetic data to train next-generation models. Repeating this process creates...

Many corporate attorneys believe their law firms should use generative AI for legal work but also feel strongly about how it should be used.

Companies including OpenAI and TikTok have signed up to a new set of guidelines designed to help them be more transparent around generative AI.

In the past few months we have been deluged with headlines about new AI tools and how much they are going to change society.  Some reporters have done amazing work holding the companies developing AI accountable, but many struggle to report on this new technology in a fair and accurate way.   We — an investigative […]

Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.

Google has updated its privacy policy to say that "publicly available" data will be used to train Brad and Cloud AI.

Student-led groups focused on AI Safety have popped up at Stanford University and other schools, backed by billionaires fixated on the AI apocalypse

A new bill will allow consumers to sue companies for damages—if they can prove that a company’s AI harmed them.

Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who just ended his two-month world tour, and Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque. Still, one of the most compelling conversations happened later in the afternoon, in a panel discussion about AI […]

The United Nations is convening this week a global gathering to try to map out the frontiers of artificial intelligence and to harness its potential for empowering humanity.

The recent sale of an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated portrait for $432,000 at Christie's art auction has raised questions about how credit and responsibility should be allocated to individuals involved and how the anthropomorphic perception of ...

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

Tech companies acknowledge machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and need improvement.

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

A health algorithm that uses health costs as a proxy for health needs leads to racial bias against Black patients.

The flood of misinformation on social media could actually be worse than many researchers have reported. The problem is that many studies analyzed only text, leaving visual misinformation uncounted.

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

In Argentina, indigenous communities marched demanding the suspension of lithium mining projects in the region. https://bnn.network/world/argentina/argentinas-san-salvador-erupts-in-violence-over-lithium-mining/ In Thacker Pass,USA, it is planned to pour sulfuric acid on land that is sacred to indigenous peoples. https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/im-being-sued-for-defending-the-land?nthPub=61 In the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic lithium mining will devastate indigenous peoples and Nature https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-mining/2022/06/russias-new-lithium-mine-will-inflict-big-harm-arctic-nature-sami-activist In Bolivia lithium mining will devastate the Aymara and Quechua indigenous peoples. https://theconversation.com/raw-materials-or-sacred-beings-lithium-extraction-puts-two-worldviews-into-tension-200047

Reddit has now sufficiently broken their own site that moderators of the blind community's subreddit who are themselves blind can no longer access the moderator tools. This statement by the mod team is worth a read to understand the full extent of the failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/ Edit: it's also worth noting that this community now has a dedicated Lemmy instance. https://RBlind.com #blind #accessibility #reddit

Because tech industry ethics teams lack resources and authority, their effectiveness is spotty at best, according to a new study.

The company is pushing back a promotional campaign three weeks to get past the news.

A muggle's guide to the wizarding world of the greatest showmen in tech

This paper aims to help policymakers and regulators explore the challenges and nuances of different AI supply chains

Technology forged by private markets won’t solve the world’s problems. It will only amplify them.

The dizzying rise of AI and machine-learning in the last year, made manifest in the popular consciousness by ChatGPT, has followed a familiar pattern. Years (decades!) of specialized research grind…

🔥 BREAKING: New class action against OpenAI over privacy violations. Below are some important quotes from the lawsuit: "The massive, unparalleled collection…

Download pdf Dana’s Answers By Molly Ryan, Summer 2016 Donella “Dana” Meadows was a pioneer in systems thinking and sustainability, a MacArthur Fellow, a professor, a farmer, and a mentor and friend to countless people. Twenty years ago, Dana founded the Sustainability Institute (now called the Donella Meadows Institute) while working as a part-time professor […]

New poll data from Domino Data Lab finds generative AI cannot be outsourced — enterprises need to fine-tune or control their own models.

More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

This glossary provides definitions and explanations for some of the most common terms related to AI governance.

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“How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb offers seven key aspects of Da Vinci’s mindset that are fascinating and offers practical exercises/ideas to help us cultivate our own creativity to live up to our highest potential.

A new report by one of Meta's largest global partners shows life-endangering oversights at scale in the company's content-moderation strategy.

More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

About 80% of the total environmental damage of a smartphone occurs during the manufacturing process, so the single most important thing you can do to mitigate that damage is to hold on to your phone for as long as possible. If it breaks, get it repaired.Over 60 years of life, if you keep your smartphone for an average of two years, then you'll need...

Don't get so distracted by the promise and threats associated with the future of AI -- it is not magic.

Experts warned that AI's autonomy is just a "veneer," and that it's being used as surveillance through the scraped data it needs to train on.

NAIAC’s work supports the Biden-Harris administration’s ongoing efforts to advance a comprehensive approach to AI-related risks and opportunities.

TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells it to various clients. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services.

How worried are top AI experts about the threat posed by large language models like GPT-4?