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A new study in AI & Society argues that Thomas Aquinas's virtues of justice, prudence, and charity can guide the ethical design and human oversight of AI triage systems in healthcare.
Read the original →A new study of 11 AI models found that chatbots systematically favor the status quo. The models advised against electric vehicles and climate policies.
Read the original →Harvard Kennedy School, not EFF, will host the event. EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer and EFF Board Member Bruce Schneier will speak at "How Much Should We Worry? Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence."
Read the original →Trust and data privacy are emerging as the main barriers to wider AI adoption in managed business travel, according to a live poll.
Read the original →In 2021, Frances Haugen released tens of thousands of internal Facebook documents showing the company knew its algorithms were promoting extremism and contributing to teen mental health concerns. Her story is the focus of the upcoming film “The Social Reckoning.” Haugen explains how whistleblowers inside AI companies could regulate the technology.
Read the original →U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation on transparency in the federal government's use of AI systems. The Transparent Automated Governance (TAG) Act would require federal agencies to notify individuals when they are interacting with or subject to such systems.
Read the original →A new multi-domain Arabic dataset and benchmark shows that deepfake-text detectors perform well within familiar domains. They falter sharply on government writing and subtle factual manipulation.
Read the original →ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users. New testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
Read the original →The company’s blog post did not contain specifics about those data points or how they were determined.
Read the original →In June, a woman in her 30s living in the Kansai region received a fraudulent call from someone claiming to be a police officer. An information security company, asked by Osaka Prefectural Police, analyzed the recorded video call footage.
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