If you don't have an #AIEthics expert on your board, you better start looking for one.

corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/04/11/ai-…

'Large language models ( #LLMs ), including those that power chatbots such as #ChatGPT , make racist judgements on the on basis of users’ dialect, a preprint study has found' #AIEthics

nature.com/articles/d4158…

A good reason not to use #Google docs (there are many others; privacy among them). #AIEthics

wired.com/story/what-hap…

'While much of the attention has been on the impressive gains in AI performance, Americans are also increasingly pessimistic about AI’s impact. Worldwide, trust in AI companies has fallen, and in the U.S., the drop has been even more dramatic.'
#AIEthics

hbr.org/2024/05/ais-tr…

'And while Silicon Valley is turning a profit, the newspaper industry from which it is harvesting content is in dire straits. (...) It is one thing to replace newspapers; it is another to loot and pilfer them to train deeply flawed replacements.' #AIEthics
newrepublic.com/article/181168…

I don't think there's a better plot to illustrate AI's power demands than this one -- not only does Big Tech consume as much as countries like Slovenia, because of AI, their consumption is growing tremendously 🫠
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Please read EPIC’s latest report on generative AI: Generating Harms. We can limit the damage if we take action.

'AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile improperly sold access to users’ personal information to data “aggregators” who then resold them to third parties, allegedly violating consumer protections.' #privacy

washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

#OpenAI is facing another #privacy complaint in the EU. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb, targets the inability of its AI chatbot #ChatGPT to correct misinformation it generates about individuals. #AIEthics techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/cha…

What's your job? Mine is answering emails.

' #Reading , while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In one study, book readers outlived their nonreading peers by nearly two years.' #books

theatlantic.com/health/archive…

'Catholic Answers made an AI chatbot that people could interact with to learn about Catholicism. But the bot got a little too ambitious, claiming to people that it was a real member of the clergy, and offering to take confession.' #AIEthics businessinsider.com/catholic-pries…

'General Motors announced it is discontinuing OnStar Smart Driver across all of its vehicles, doing so after complaints surfaced about #privacy violations and how user information was shared with data analytics companies LexisNexis and Verisk.' #AIEthics

forbes.com/sites/antoniop…

'A former #Amazon executive is accusing the company of telling her to violate #copyright law to compete with other tech giants in AI.' #AIEthics

businessinsider.com/ex-amazon-ghad…

'Chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.'
#privacy #LLMs #AIEthics

wired.com/story/ai-chatb…

We are delighted that Professor Joshua Cohen Joshua Cohen (Apple University), one of the world's leading political philosophers, will deliver this year's The Institute for Ethics in AI annual lecture, on the topic of 'The Reach of Fairness' on June 6th. Registration now open.

oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/reach-fa…

Good thing Oxford has a BA in computer science and philosophy 😊 'If you want to pursue a career in engineering, you should focus on learning #philosophy in addition to traditional engineering coursework. It will improve your code.'

#AIEthics

hbr.org/2024/04/why-en…

I just read Carissa Véliz's 'Three things digital ethics can learn from medical ethics' (2019). 3 pages and yet so many interesting thoughts! This is going straight on my Philosophy of AI teaching list!
nature.com/articles/s4192…

'The risks that AI poses to society are strikingly familiar, but there is one big difference: it’s not too late. This time, we know it’s all coming.'

#privacy #surveillance #AIEthics

technologyreview.com/2024/03/13/108…

'ChatGPT gave John an “exceeds expectations” and Jane just a “meets expectations'

'Firms should have an AI ethics manager or consultant to constantly evaluate the use of AI at the workplace.' #AIEthics

blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/…