Greetings all, and I hope you are all enjoying the season, which is most definitely upon us.
With that in mind, I have zero chat, I have so much on right now it’s daft. But i do have a great newsletter (see below!). Oh, and flagging the reports section, some really great content (and a really great resource from UNICRI there)
Will leave you this week with ‘Ambre’ by Nils Frahm, because its so chill, and as you may have picked up, thats a lot of the genre i’ve been listening to this week.
Stay well. Stay cosy.
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Websites
The New York Times, A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
DataBody, Skin to Screen Data Body Integrity in the Age of AI
ASPI, It’s not too late to regulate persuasive technologies
The National Interest, How to Beat China in the Quest for AI Dominance
Big Brother Watch, Your air fryer could be spying on you
Privacy International UK MPs ignore concerned constituents questions about Facial Recognition Technology
EDRI, German petition calls for a fundamental right to ‘a life without digital coercion’
The Conversation, Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)
The Register, UK cops shell out £20M for live facial recognition tech
BBC, Northumbria Police used face recognition to identify Sunderland riot suspects
The Register, AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
WIRED, The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired (ha, says reporter)
The Register, Prepare for an AI policy upending under Trump, say experts
The Register, New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case
Financial Times, AI enters the race to reshape life on and off the track
The Register, AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church
The New York Times, Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert
Financial Times, Electric Dreams at Tate Modern — when artists embraced the power of technology
The Guardian, Back to the futurum: how one university is countering AI with ancient examination techniques
The Guardian, Russia plotting to use AI to enhance cyber-attacks against UK, minister will warn]
The Guardian, How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe
WIRED, Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad (such a clickbait title
WIRED, How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
The Register, Yup, half of that thought-leader crap on LinkedIn is indeed AI scribbled (included for no other reason than ‘ha, i knew it!’)
The FInancial Times, AI is transforming the world of work, are we ready for it?
The Financial Times, OpenAI targets 1bn users in next phase of growth
The Washington Post, ‘AI Jesus’ avatar tests man’s faith in machines and the divine – The Washington Post
New York Times, Google Worried Israeli Contract Could Enable Human Rights Violations
Blogs
Just Security, What’s to Stop Algorithm-Driven Recruiters From Rejecting Able Federal Workers With Neuro-Divergent Disabilities?
Opinio Juris, Do AI Decision Support Systems ‘Support’ Humans in Military Decision-Making on the Use of Force?
Reports
TechTonic Justice, Inescapable AI — The Ways AI Decides How Low Income People Work, Live, LEarn and Survive
DataFace from Catherine Jasserand (resource re facial recognition)
NetzPolitik, Data Broker Files: How data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security
UNICRI, Technical Reference Book | Interpol (read this ages ago at draft stage, and found it very useful, as an explainer to different types of AI, how things work, etc.)Databody Integrity, From Skin to Screen Body Integrity in the Digital Age