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A new study by a former social worker and researcher reports that social service agencies need to establish guidelines for how AI is used. The researcher recommends keeping people involved in decisions, regularly checking AI systems for discrimination, and using AI to connect vulnerable people with needed resources and services. The study is published in the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Read the original →Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device. This happened days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.
Read the original →YouTube Music is adding AI labels to tracks. The rollout makes provenance more visible without replacing rights clearance or proving a performance effect.
Read the original →YouTube will label AI-generated songs across its main website and YouTube Music. It is the latest service to publicly mark tracks as not produced by humans.
Read the original →CII has called for a responsible AI framework for India’s media and entertainment industry. It recommends safeguards for AI-generated content, copyright licensing, consent-based use of likeness and voice, and creator rights.
Read the original →Kakao has created new AI ethics principles and an implementation framework to apply from service planning through operations as autonomous AI agents spread. It unveiled the SPIRIT principles, the NORMA implementation method and related checklists at its if(kakao)26 developer conference in Yongin on Oct. 13. Kakao plans to apply a new AI ethics checklist to services this year and strengthen checks for AI services aimed at children and teenagers.
Read the original →The Japan Actors Union formally drew up and announced its guidelines on the use of generative AI for voices on October 15.
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