Good morning, and welcome to the AI & Human Rights newsletter ‘I can’t believe it’s essentially September’ edition. Ouch.
If you’re in or around London, you might be interested in this screening organised by (the great) EHRAC for the international day of the victims of enforced disappearances. It’s on 30 August in Curzon Bloomsbury.
There is also a handy style guide on AI by the AP, which is linked below as my hyperlinks don’t seem to be working … in what must be a reminder that I’m on holidays.
thanks to Sarah Zarmsky, and hope ye all have a great week.
Associated Press Blog, AI guidance, terms added to AP Stylebook
The New York Times, A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat
New Scientist, Driverless cars may struggle to spot children and dark-skinned people
MIT Technology Review, How ubiquitous keyboard software puts hundreds of millions of Chinese users at risk
The New York Times, A Fun Film About a Topic That Scares Me a Lot
Daily Beast, An AI Scans Eyes to Spot Parkinson’s Years Before Diagnosis
MIT Technology Review, Brain implants helped create a digital avatar of a stroke survivor’s face
MIT Technology Review, Why we should all be rooting for boring AI
Towards Data Science, When AI Goes Astray: High-Profile Machine Learning Mishaps in the Real World
The Guardian, Can AI-generated art be copyrighted? A US judge says not, but it’s just a matter of time
The Register, Hope for nerds! ChatGPT’s still a below-average math student
WIRED, AI Can’t Read Books. It’s Reviewing Them Anyway
The Guardian, The professor’s great fear about AI? That it becomes the boss from hell
Financial Times, What can a virtual village made up of AI chatbots tell us about human interaction?
The Guardian, New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content
WIRED, The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
The New York TImes, Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans
The Conversation, For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life
The New York Times, Can A.I. Detect Wildfires Faster Than Humans? California Is Trying to Find Out
The Register, Hollywood studios agree AI-generated content should not reduce humans’ pay or credit
The Conversation, Navigating the intersection between AI, automation and religion – 3 essential reads
The Register, Generative AI will change your job, not take it away – UN
The Guardian, Can’t decide which books to ban? Leave it to ChatGPT!
The Guardian, AI is not a one-time bomb, but a slow burn of devastation that is consuming jobs and culture
Financial Times, British media and creative industries quizzed over AI risks to copyright
The Guardian, The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients
WIRED, Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living
The Guardian, ‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier
BBC News, Thames Valley Police: ‘Super-recognisers’ used to patrol for sex offenders
The New York Times, Facial Recognition Saw Through Man Who Stole Dead Brother’s Identity
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Japan: New guidelines to encourage businesses to consider human rights when developing generative AI
The Strategist, Malicious AI arrives on the dark web
Reports
Stanford FSI, Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations
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
Alessandra Spadaro, A Weapon is No Subordinate: Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Scope of Superior Responsibility
Dustin A Lewis, War Crimes Involving Autonomous Weapons: Responsibility, Liability and Accountability