AI Newsletter – 17 October 2022
Morning all, quite an interesting selection of stories this week. There is the inevitable focus on Ai-Da’s ‘appearance’ before the House of Lords (bit of a shambles?), a few stories on surveillance tech in schools and on the streets (well, through billboards). The billboard story in VICE is really quite surprising, and will surely be subject to legal challenge soon. That said, it does rally underline the fact that AI tech, and the use of facial recognition, is really not subject to any meaningful regulation. While there is a very strong argument that these activities are prohibited by human rights law, there is a long (long) lag between deployment and any court decision. There is also a story on an upgrade to the Abrams tank, which will include AI powered tools to detect and target enemies. Its worth watching the video advertising the tank, if only for its Stranger Things meets BMW vibes.
Websites
‘Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are “spurious and dangerous”, researchers argue’, Cambridge Research News
‘Animated Googly Eyes Could Make Autonomous Cars Safer For Pedestrians’, Gizmodo
‘Who’s going to save us from bad AI?’, MIT Technology Review
‘Taylor Swift Will Always Be Bigger Than AI’, Washington Post
‘Announcing our 2022 Fall Symposium – Race Ex Machina: Confronting the Racialized Role of Technology in the Criminal Justice System’, Berkeley Technology Law Journal
‘How AI is helping African communities and businesses’, The Keyword by Google
‘Fair AI Practices’, Communications of the ACM
‘EU under scrutiny for bankrolling surveillance in Africa’, EU Observer
‘Stanford’s robotic boot gives wearers a personalized mobility boost’, TechCrunch
‘The messy morality of letting AI make life-and-death decisions’, MIT Technology Review
‘Promoting AI for E-Governance and Access to Information’, UNESCO
‘Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one’, The Register
‘Meet Ai-Da, the First Robot to Speak Before U.K. Parliament’, Smithsonian Magazine
‘Ai-Da the robot sums up the flawed logic of Lords debate on AI’, The Guardian
‘How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech’, WIRED
‘The next U.S. battle tank could use AI to identify targets’, The Washington Post
‘AI image generation is advancing at astronomical speeds. Can we still tell if a picture is fake?’, The Conversation
‘Companies in the UK Are Mining Users’ Personal Data to Place Billboard Ads’, VICE
‘Will AI Targeting Make Tank Gunners Obsolete?’, National Interest
‘Horrible bosses: how algorithm managers are taking over the office’, The Conversation
‘The New AI Bill of Rights Needs to Go Bigger’, National Interest
Journal Articles
‘Data, Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence’, Kyu Lub Lee and Hyun Park, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control
‘Street and Graffiti Art between Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence: A Copyright Perspective’, Enrico Bonadio and Siri-Helen Egeland, University of St. Thomas Law Journal
‘Artificial intelligence (AI) in Monkeypox infection prevention’, Mitesh Patel, Malvi Surti, and Mohd Adnan, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
‘Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature’, Christopher Starke, Janine Baleis, and Frank Marcinkowski, Big Data & Society
‘AI Governance in the Financial Industry’, Robin Feldman and Kara Stein, Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance