Good morning, and happy Monday!
Bumper newsletter this week, as Sarah Zarmsky is back on the team! The Intercept have an interesting story about Christian surveillance – and doxxing – of sex workers. Its a really odd piece, but we have been interviewing sex workers about the effects of surveillance as part of our broader chilling effects research, and the consequences of surveillance are just devastating, particularly from a mental health perspective.
MIT Review also has a good piece on watermarking for generative AI, and quite a few health-focused pieces, presumably getting attention in light of the mammogram detection story from last week.
The Rolling Stone also has a feature on the women who were among the first to warn of the dangers of AI, from different perspectives.
And since we have a piece from the Rolling Stone, kind of have to sign off with this…
News pieces
The Intercept, The Online Christian Counterinsurgency Against Sex Workers
VentureBeat, Legions of DEF CON hackers will attack generative AI models
The Washington Post, AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for
The Guardian, Is artificial intelligence a threat to journalism or will the technology destroy itself?
Quartz, Amazon isn’t prepared for the incoming tide of AI-authored books. Jane Friedman has proof.
WIRED, AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine
AI News, UK commits £13M to cutting-edge AI healthcare research
The Guardian, ‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects?
The Keyword by Google, How AI is helping airlines mitigate the climate impact of contrails
Centre for the Governance of AI, Preventing Harms From AI Misuse
The New York Times, What Can You Do When A.I. Lies About You?
MIT Technology Review, Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online
MIT Technology Review, Why it’s impossible to build an unbiased AI language model
UNESCO, Guidance for Generative AI in education and research
The New York Times, Don’t Scrape Me, Bro, the Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars and How Reddit Beat a Rebellion
The Washington Post, Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried.
The Washington Post, Journalists seek regulations to govern fast-moving artificial intelligence technology
WIRED, Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
The Guardian, Meet the artists reclaiming AI from big tech – with the help of cats, bees and drag queens
WIRED, This AI Company Releases Deepfakes Into the Wild. Can It Control Them?
The Guardian, AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa
The Register, Google, you’re not unleashing ‘unproven’ AI medical bots on hospital patients, yeah?
The Washington Post, AI is acting ‘pro-anorexia’ and tech companies aren’t stopping it
WIRED, Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
The Guardian, AI can identify passwords by sound of keys being pressed, study suggests
The Register, Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy
The Guardian, Unofficial Indigenous voice no campaigner defends use of AI-generated ads on Facebook
Middle East Eye, Why we should be worried about AI mass surveillance
The New York Times, Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
The Guardian, Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, UK: Report exposes Home Office plans to lobby for facial recognition in retail, raising privacy concerns
The Guardian, Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, AI giving deceased & missing children a voice raises concerns about misinformation & harm to loved ones
Defense One, The Pentagon just launched a generative AI task force
Rolling Stone, These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Time, The Case Against AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Reports
Academic Literature
*Disclaimer: The following articles, chapters, and books have not been evaluated for their methodology and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AI & Human Right Blog
Sophia Goodfriend, Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron’s Old City
Guido Acquaviva, Crimes without Humanity?: Artificial Intelligence, Meaningful Human Control, and International Criminal Law
Jeroen Temperman and Alberto Quintavalla, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Oxford University Press
Monica Horten, Algorithms patrolling content: where’s the harm?
Charles D Raab, Book Review: Beyond data: human rights, ethical and social impact assessment in AI by Alessandro Mantelero
Francesca Palmiotto and Natalia Menéndez González, Facial recognition technology, democracy and human rights
Sümeyye Elif Biber, Book Review: Digital constitutionalism in Europe: reframing rights and powers in the algorithmic society by De Gregorio, G.
Charlotte Tschider, International Privacy Law and Artificial Intelligence