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AI Ethics explores the potential concern with the AI revolution. Our reliance on AI will inevitably cause many ethical issues — affecting everyone, from small businesses utilizing AI to entrepreneurs developing the latest tech, and even public citizens.

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@David_Gunkel shared
On Jun 23, 2022
This @Forbes article from @LanceEliot features my recent @SSRN preprint "Both/And--Why Robots Should not be Slaves" (a chapter from the forthcoming @mitpress book "Person, Thing, Robot") along with the work of @j2bryson @KevinLagrandeur and @JTasioulas https://t.co/J0OjybpeKG
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AI Ethics Leans Into Aristotle To Examine Whether Humans Might Opt To Enslave AI Amidst The Advent Of Fully Autonomous Systems

AI Ethics Leans Into Aristotle To Examine Whether Humans Might Opt To Enslave AI Amidst The Advent Of Fully Autonomous Systems

The inaugural annual presentation of the Oxford University Institute for Ethics and AI featured a Stanford talk covering Aristotle and lessons for AI Ethics, especially dealing with the ...

@oiioxford shared
On Jun 21, 2022
RT @SandraWachter5: Huge thanks @Hamilbug @BusinessInsider for a great interview ft my new work The Theory of Artificial Immutability: Protecting Algorithmic Groups under Anti-Discrimination Law https://t.co/smP7jhMwl3 new groups are at risk of bias, the law needs to act https://t.co/gt9jLherir
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Don't worry about AI becoming sentient. Do worry about it finding new ways to discriminate against people.

Don't worry about AI becoming sentient. Do worry about it finding new ways to discriminate against people.

A Google engineer voiced his theory that a chatbot was sentient. Experts say it's not that clever and the hype overshadows the real threat of AI bias.

@guardiantech shared
On Jun 22, 2022
Microsoft limits access to facial recognition tool in AI ethics overhaul https://t.co/0SjtQ94MxS
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Microsoft limits access to facial recognition tool in AI ethics overhaul

Microsoft limits access to facial recognition tool in AI ethics overhaul

Company also restricts use of custom neural voice technology owing to deepfake concerns

@singularityu shared
On Jun 20, 2022
This AI system that was trained to express itself like Shakespeare, assimilated his style and perspective by ingesting his plays—educating itself to give an opinion on AI creativity in iambic pentameter. https://t.co/wewE2sYKwo
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AI Shakespeare and AI Oscar Wilde Debate Machine Creativity at Oxford

AI Shakespeare and AI Oscar Wilde Debate Machine Creativity at Oxford

Will human-created content be overwhelmed by synthetic? AI versions of classic writers and literary characters argue the motion at Oxford.

@dw2 shared
On Jun 21, 2022
@KimSolez For further discussion of the limits of expecting an AGI to automatically behave in ways that are truly helpful to humans, see my discussion of "The AI Alignment Problem" https://t.co/btM7jsUb0i
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The AI Alignment Problem

The AI Alignment Problem

The AI Alignment Problem AI systems learn about the world via a combination of: Information and general principles pre-programmed into them in advanceDeductions the AIs make based upon data ...

@guardiantech shared
On Jun 23, 2022
Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones into digital assistant https://t.co/GFMdiZa8fu
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Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistant

Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistant

Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears

@mtlaiethics shared
On Jun 18, 2022
RT @ststaab: Montreal AI Ethics Institute blog features @CarlosMougan's simple, but effective methods for dealing with unfairness resulting from encoding protected categorical attributes @NoBIAS_ITN https://t.co/vymdU6Ussa
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Fairness implications of encoding protected categorical attributes

Fairness implications of encoding protected categorical attributes

🔬 Research Summary by Carlos Mougan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southampton within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN of NoBias. [ Original paper by Carlos Mougan, Jose M. Alvarez…

@guardiantech shared
On Jun 18, 2022
Why is Google so alarmed by the prospect of a sentient machine? | John Naughton https://t.co/URwckrf8r7
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Why is Google so alarmed by the prospect of a sentient machine?

Why is Google so alarmed by the prospect of a sentient machine?

The tech giant seems to be running scared over an engineer’s claim that its language model has feelings