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Social Media is an Engineering Disaster Waiting to Happen - American Compass
Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 - American Compass 128d 11 tweets
Fake news pales in its power to real news presented with misleading frequency.
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Toby Walsh Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Repeat a truth often enough and you can topple governments via 127d
A Practical Guide to Building Ethical AI
Harvard Business Review 133d 2 tweets
AI doesn’t just scale solutions — it also scales risk.
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Toby Walsh A practical guide to AI and Ethics for business 128d
AIJ AIIDE Global Participation Fellowship program
Google Docs 132d 1 tweets
A grant from the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) editorial board has made it possible for the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) to offer fellowships to increase global participation...
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Toby Walsh A grant from the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) editorial board has made it possible for the 16th AAAI Conference on AI in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) to offer fellowships to increase global participation & outreach 132d
Facebook greatest source of Covid-19 disinformation, journalists say
the Guardian 135d 3 tweets
International survey nominates social media giant as worst offender, ahead of elected officials
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Toby Walsh Facebook greatest source of Covid-19 disinformation, journalists say 135d
Rebels within: the Facebook staff openly challenging Zuckerberg
the Guardian 145d 4 tweets
A developer’s powerful resignation letter is the latest condemnation of the social network’s attitude to hate speech
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Toby Walsh "working for the tech giant [Facebook] might one day carry the same kind of moral stigma as working for the tobacco companies that continued pushing cigarettes even after the link with lung cancer was revealed." 144d
The Campaign To Stop Killer Robots
Stopkillerrobots.org 148d 1 tweets
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Toby Walsh States convened at the United Nations in Geneva this week for another Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (aka "killer robots") 148d
ExamSoft’s remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns
VentureBeat 149d 3 tweets
To administer bar exams in 20 different states next week, ExamSoft is using facial recognition and collecting the biometric data of legal professionals.
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Toby Walsh ExamSoft’s remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns via 149d
Bad Robots: UK Home Office Backs Away From Immigration Algorithm After Legal Challenge - Ethical AI Advisory
Ethical AI Advisory 150d 1 tweets
After being sued by two groups, the United Kingdom’s Home Office has agreed to halt its use of, and substantially redesign, an algorithm that it had been using to analyze and support visa applications.
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Toby Walsh After being sued by two groups, the United Kingdom’s Home Office has agreed to halt its use of, and substantially redesign, an algorithm that it had been using to analyse and support visa applications. 150d
AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3
The Gradient 153d 3 tweets
What does Microsoft getting an "exclusive license" to GPT-3 mean for the future of AI democratization?
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Toby Walsh AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3 152d
Face-mask recognition has arrived—for better or worse
Science 168d 5 tweets
New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy.
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Toby Walsh Face-mask recognition has arrived—for better or more likely for worse via 159d
Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence
MIT Technology Review 161d 6 tweets
Algorithms can change the course of children’s lives. Kids are interacting with Alexas that can record their voice data and influence their speech and social development. They’re binging videos on TikTok and YouTube pushed to them by recommendation...
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Toby Walsh Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence 160d
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World
Nytimes.com 160d 16 tweets
How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy?
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Toby Walsh Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World 160d
Welcome to [email protected] | [email protected]
Jobs.unsw.edu.au 1190d 119 tweets
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Toby Walsh Four 5-year postdocs to work on trustworthy AI @ UNSW in glorious Sydney. Please let your networks know! 161d
Time is now to back science and tech: Caples - InnovationAus
InnovationAus 162d 1 tweets
Now is the time for Australian governments to invest heavily in science and research to stimulate the economic recovery and prepare the country for long-term growth, according to Victoria’s lead scientist Dr Amanda Caples.Dr Caples has released a...
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Toby Walsh Very true words: "Now is the time for Australian governments to invest heavily in science and research to stimulate the economic recovery and prepare the country for long-term growth, according to Victoria’s lead scientist Dr Amanda Caples". 162d
"I Have Blood On My Hands": A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
Craig Silverman - BuzzFeed News 164d 47 tweets
A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.
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Toby Walsh When she asked the company to do more in terms of finding and stopping malicious activity related to elections and political activity, she was told that “human resources are limited.” Facebook made $17B profit but can't afford to defend democracy 164d
How you can fight algorithms for a more just and equitable future
Mashable 166d 2 tweets
Algorithms fuel the ever-growing police and surveillance state. Here's what you can do about it.
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Toby Walsh People are fighting algorithms for a more just and equitable future. You can, too. via 165d
Robots to be used in UK care homes to help reduce loneliness
the Guardian 172d 11 tweets
Machines can hold simple conversations and have been found to improve mental health
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Toby Walsh We've just had thousands of people laid off due to COVID. Don't you think employing those people to care for the elderly might just be better for the elderly, for those people just laid off, and in the view of for those of us with elderly in care? 172d
Bill Morneau says he would take on big tech as head of the OECD. He had a better chance when he was in government
thestar.com 174d 2 tweets
It’s becoming clearer and clearer, most recently in Australia, that the real decisions around how to rein in the burgeoning power of Facebook, Google ...
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Toby Walsh Big Tech, the storm clouds are gathering, time to batten down the hatches (and perhaps re-assess some of your more dubious practices) via 174d
Faulty Facial Recognition Led to His Arrest—Now He’s Suing
Vice.com 175d 8 tweets
Michael Oliver is the second Black man found to be wrongfully arrested by Detroit police because of the technology—and his lawyers suspect there are many more.
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Toby Walsh Faulty Facial Recognition Led to His Arrest—Now He’s Suing via 174d
Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI
Wired 182d 11 tweets
After learning its own ethics lessons the hard way, the tech giant will offer services like spotting racial bias or developing guidelines around AI projects.
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Toby Walsh What a beautiful pivot: big tech after years of ethical fails now wants to make money selling ethical services via 181d