Good morning, happy Monday, and welcome to the AI & Human Rights Newsletter, posting from Prague edition.
I’ll be brief, as I’m on holidays, but big thanks to Sarah Zarmsky for putting the newsletter together.
MIT Technology Review has a good piece on AI for war fighting, particularly interesting because of the run through of different technologies, including the ‘uberisation’ of artillery (seriously).
There is another wrongful arrest due to facial recognition story, and a BBC radio piece on ‘did Big Tech know I was gay before I did?’. This piece on the history of surveillance in Cairo is also a really nice read.
In a major breakthrough for humanity, AI may be able to fill in for us at Zoom meetings The future we want might finally be inching closer.
And since im in Prague, today’s song is Modlitba pro Martu, which was composed in response to the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, and is apparently the song Czech’s associate most with the Velvet Revolution. The performance is from just a few days after the fall of the wall. Or, for a totally different vibe, the Fine Young Cannibals …
Websites
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Cairo’s Panopticon 2.0
MIT Technology Review, Six ways that AI could change politics
The Markup, AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating – The Markup
The Guardian, CEO regrets her firm took on Facebook moderation work after staff ‘traumatised’
The Times, AI system can deter people smugglers by detecting small boats early
Popular Science, School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books
MIT Technology Review, Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.
NPR, ‘New York Times’ considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl
MIT Technology Review, Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines
Financial Times, UK to host AI safety summit at start of November
AI News, ChatGPT’s political bias highlighted in study
WIRED, Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
MIT Technology Review, AI isn’t great at decoding human emotions. So why are regulators targeting the tech?
The Conversation, Snapchat’s ‘creepy’ AI blunder reminds us that chatbots aren’t people. But as the lines blur, the risks grow
The Register, ‘AI-written book’ on Maui wildfire selling well on Amazon
The Washington Post, AI can now attend Zoom meetings for you
The Register, Tesla knew Autopilot weakness killed a driver – and didn’t fix it, engineers claim
The Guardian, Google DeepMind testing ‘personal life coach’ AI tool
The Guardian, Westworld at 50: Michael Crichton’s bleak vision of AI remains chilling
Financial Times, The sceptical case on generative AI
The Guardian, Deepfake detection tools must work with dark skin tones, experts warn
The Register, Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI
The Guardian, ‘AI cannot taste the way a chef can’: are chatbots a threat to fine dining?
The Register, The US Pentagon launches new generative AI task force
The Register, Amazon uses AI to generate product review summaries
The Conversation, Do we need a new law for AI? Sure – but first we could try enforcing the laws we already have
The Guardian, ‘Only AI made it possible’: scientists hail breakthrough in tracking British wildlife
The Washington post, New AI app lets users ‘text’ with Jesus, as impersonated by ChatGPT
The Guardian, A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections
AP News, Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged
The Guardian, TechScape: ‘Are you kidding, carjacking?’ – The problem with facial recognition in policing
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Stanford study finds AI detection tools to be biased against international students
Forbes, An AI Model Tested In The Ukraine War Is Helping Assess Damage From The Hawaii Wildfires
IPVM, Huawei Pledges Advanced Camera System Under Taliban
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
David Gray Widder, Sarah West, and Meredith Whittaker, Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI
Joe Parslow, Kings, Queens, Monsters, and Things: Digital Drag Performance and Queer Moves in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Onur Bakiner, Pluralistic sociotechnical imaginaries in Artificial Intelligence (AI) law: the case of the European Union’s AI Act
Lena Enqvist, ‘Human oversight’ in the EU artificial intelligence act: what, when and by whom?