Ai ethics

08 Feb 24

Standards Matter for Cars, Plugs, WiFi—and AI?

Computer & Information Technology

Artificial intelligence holds much promise for innovation and progress, but it also has the potential to cause harm. To enable the responsible development and use of AI, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently released ISO/IEC 42001, a new standard for AI management systems. According to ISO, this standard “offers…

28 Jan 24

Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In recent years, AI ethicists have had a tough job. The engineers developing generative AI tools have been racing ahead, competing with each other to create models of even more breathtaking abilities, leaving both regulators and ethicists to comment on what’s already been done. One of the people working to…

27 Nov 23

Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Joy Buolamwini‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about algorithmic bias that has received more than 1.6 million views to date. In the talk, Buolamwini, who…

31 Oct 23

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Sweeping AI Order

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The world has been waiting for the United States to get its act together on regulating artificial intelligence—particularly since it’s home to many of the powerful companies pushing at the boundaries of what’s acceptable. Today, U.S. president Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI that many experts say is…

22 Oct 23

Top AI Shops Fail Transparency Test

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In July and September, 15 of the biggest AI companies signed on to the White House’s voluntary commitments to manage the risks posed by AI. Among those commitments was a promise to be more transparent: to share information “across the industry and with governments, civil society, and academia,” and to…

21 Jun 23

The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard

Computer & Information Technology

What should we make of OpenAI’s GPT-4, anyway? Is the large language model a major step on the way to an artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the insider’s term for an AI system with a flexible human-level intellect? And if we do create an AGI, might it be so different from human…

Standards Matter for Cars, Plugs, WiFi—and AI?

Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Sweeping AI Order

Top AI Shops Fail Transparency Test

The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard

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