Kate Kaye

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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations | TechCrunch techcrunch.com

If you're angry about brain rot from the AI-generated slop infiltrating a place fueled by human-generated slop, perhaps reconsider your priorities. www.kapwing.com/resources/th...

The TikTok AI Slop Report kapwing.com

Since idea of everyday joes sharing in AI profits is in news now, I thought I'd share this thoughtful, well-informed and at-times hilarious analysis of OpenAI's 'industrial' policy approach from @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com which pokes all the holes. As usual I…

453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy soundcloud.com

If you wanna hear the fake bot charity ad, it's right at the start of this episode: aitrustcontrol.com/2026/07/27/6... The Trust Control pod is on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Audible, iHeart and other pod platforms...

6.0 The New Trust Paradigm Episode: Scoring Trustworthiness of Human and AI Agent “Workers” aitrustcontrol.com

In my documentary podcast Trust Control I feature a satirical charity style ad, but instead of saving children or animals, the plea is to "give a chatbot the bootstrapped care and control it deserves." Turns out there's an AI welfare conference going on right now. eleosai.org/…

Eleos Conference on AI Consciousness and Welfare eleosai.org

But I don't just research surveillance tech. I also look into use of AI & automated / algorithmic systems used by Portland government. Since I investigated Portland Water Bureau's trial of algorithmic pricing, the project has been paused. Look out for more reporting on that fr…

“Concern” at Portland Water Bureau over Future of Algorithmic Billing Program redtailmedia.org

In 2020 I used Portland City Auditor records to report on how Amazon lobbyists spent $24K to influence Portland's facial recognition ban. And in a related story I dug into how facial recognition tech giants hid behind a big tech think tank to influence the ban: redtailmedia.or…

In Portland Debate, Facial Recognition Giants Hide Behind Tech Lobby Think Tank redtailmedia.org

In 2020 I used Portland City Auditor records to report on how Amazon lobbyists spent $24K to influence Portland's facial recognition ban. And in a related story I dug into how facial recognition tech giants hid behind a big tech think tank to influence the ban: redtailmedia.or…

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An influential multinational tracks AI incidents based on media reports. Most journalists or people in media would question this approach, but alas...

OECD AI Incidents Monitor, an evidence base for trustworthy AI - OECD.AI oecd.ai

I had a blast in the @opb.org studio yesterday with Dave Miller on Think Out Loud! Give a listen.... We discussed so called AI agent "employees," and the blurring lines between human trust and computational methods for "measuring" trust and trustworthiness in AI and media.

Portland independent journalist’s new podcast explores trust in the age of AI opb.org

Still pissed Axel Springer killed the Protocol domain, but here's that story, part of a big series I did with others at Protocol interrogating the US v China AI race narrative. web.archive.org/web/20221106...

Microsoft helped build AI in China. What happens next? web.archive.org

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Canada is lagging behind global peers in AI trust and literacy kpmg.com

Question to people who have been following me or are new via multiple AI related 'starter packs' I've been added to lately: Are you allowed to complain about a "Flock panopticon" if you have a Ring or another type of networked home surveillance camera?

Portland's "Approved and prohibited uses of Microsoft Copilot Chat" by city staff (a non-public document I got from a source) includes odd requirements such as "Always review content to remove unintended bias..." which is kind of like saying "Remove all nuts from the peanut butter."

I don't use automation or AI agents to make public records requests from Portland city government but looks like the city might be seeing more and more of this sort of thing. The public records site now includes a captcha gate in order to complete a request.

I made a mini zine to print and cut and fold and give to people. It's about my new Trust Control podcast. No AI was used in the making of this mini zine. But I did use some images from old academic papers and trust measurement model studies and some image filters.

Some of most influential research inspiring computational trust models (how computers 'measure' trust for AI agents & even how human worker trustworthiness is scored in relation to agents) was directly inspired by a 1930s method to measure 'aesthetic merit.' It ranked square #1, swastika #41, etc.