Greetings, and a happy Wednesday to you all!
Well, it may not actually be Wednesday when you get this. There have been some real problems with the mail out functionality, and I’m lost in a customer service nightmare loop. I hope to get it sorted soon. But hope is a fleeting thing.
On that note, it gives me no small satisfaction to flag this story from WIRED about Air Canada having to cover a refund policy made up by one of its customer service chatbots. A victory for the breathing people!
David Kaye (no, me neither?) has a piece evaluating the UN’s AI Advisory Body Interim report. It is, as you would expect (oh that David Kaye) a really good insight into the state of play. I would say he’s read it so you dont have to, but from reading this, it sounds like the report itself is worth a read.
Apparently LLMs can be triggered to automatically hack websites on their own. So thats good news. And apparently this has moved beyond the research realm, and ‘US adversaries’ are now using Generative AI to launch cyberattacks. Can someone just send them some ‘ethical AI’ principles and we can all move on?
On the off chance the ethical principles dont work, Raquel Vazquez Llorente has a new piece on ‘Generative AI in the dock‘
I’ll leave you today with this nice story about a Syrian musician now doing his thing in Ireland (and supporting the great Lankum, check them out) and ‘Someone Great‘ from LCD Soundsystem. because those synths.
Be well. Hopefully you get this, and I don’t spend another week banging my head against the computer service chatbot wall.
Thanks as ever to Sarah Zarmsky
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WIRED, ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
WIRED, Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
Business Law Today, AI and Privacy in the New Age of Open Banking
Tech Policy Press, Evaluating the UN AI Advisory Body Interim Report
CNN, Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck
Wall Street Journal, Forget Passwords and Badges: Your Body Is Your Next Security Key
Communications of the ACM, The Campaign Against Deepfakes
Ars Technica, Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors
Wall Street Journal, AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.
Open AI, Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors
MIT Technology Review, A new satellite will use Google’s AI to map methane leaks from space
Technology’s Legal Edge, Who’s been regulating my AI?: Goldilocks and the House of Lords Report on LLMs and Generative AI
The Register, Compliance with EU AI law will satisfy UK guidance
Financial Times, North Korean hackers use AI for more sophisticated scams
The New York Times, A Celebrity Dies, and New Biographies Pop Up Overnight. The Author? A.I.
The Register, AI models can be weaponized to hack websites on their own
The Guardian, ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse
The Register, To regulate AI, start with hardware, boffins argue
The New York Times, In Big Election Year, A.I.’s Architects Move Against Its Misuse
The Washington Post, Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations
The Washington Post, Parents of gun violence victims use AI to bring kids’ voices to Capitol Hill
The Register, AI won’t take our jobs and it might even save the middle class
The New York Times, Facial Recognition in Airports: Biometrics Technology Is Expanding
The Register, Stolen iOS users face scans used to break into bank accounts
Algorithm Watch, Austria’s social security invests over €50m in AI – just for bookkeeping?
Algorithm Watch, Fighting in the dark: How Europeans push back against rogue AI
Defense One, Expect ‘AI versus AI’ cyber activity between US and adversaries, Pentagon official says
Smithsonian Magazine, The First A.I.-Generated Art Dates Back to the 1970s
Blog Posts
The Conversation, AI has a large and growing carbon footprint, but there are potential solutions on the horizon
The Conversation, The use of technology in policing should be regulated to protect people from wrongful convictions
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
R. Vazquez Llorente, Deepfakes in the Dock: Preparing International Justice for Generative AI
J. Johnson, The AI Commander: Centaur Teaming, Command, and Ethical Dilemmas
C. Chuan et al., Explainable Artificial Intelligence (Xai) for Facilitating Recognition of Algorithmic Bias: An Experiment from Imposed Users’ Perspectives
S. Bin Ashraf and M. Masrur Islam, AI and the future of human rights in Bangladesh: a call for robust legal and ethical frameworks
Media
Computer Says Maybe Podcast, 2024 Elections: Is AI Going to Wreak Havoc? The Washington Post (Podcast), The destabilizing force of AI deepfakes in politics