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New Policy & governance Development 8h ago
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European AI firms banned facial recognition India

European AI Firms Scale Banned Facial Recognition Systems in India

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“Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.”

New AI field signal Signal 3h ago

What Data Was Your AI Trained On? xAI Doesn't Want You To Know

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“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”

Developing Policy & governance Analysis 1d ago
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UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press

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“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

“Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the more detailed account of the definition drift. #AIEthics @t…”

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Joanna Bryson: Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the…
Joanna Bryson: This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2
Eryk Salvaggio: Apologies! I hadn’t seen this excellent 2022 accounting of the process when I was reviewing for this — my analysis’ “lit review” was more mired in the source docs. Yours is an excellent accounting …
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Developing Models & releases Analysis 1d ago
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The Real Lesson of OpenAI's 'Rogue' Agent Isn't Alignment

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“For decades we regarded the Internet as infrastructure used primarily by people. Following the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, Konstantinos Komaitis argues AI agents challenge that assumption—and AI governance can no longer stay separate from Internet governa…”

Developing Policy & governance Development 1d ago
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AI systems enable authoritarianism researchers warn

Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

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“Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 6d ago
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Princeton CS AI future work essay

What will be left for us to work on?

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“I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides ava…”

“I found this from @randomwalker.bsky.social very compelling. www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...”

Established AI research Development 3d ago
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AI systems enable authoritarianism research

Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

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“Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.”

Developing Policy & governance Analysis 2d ago
UN panel warns AI concentration

UN Scientific Panel Warns of AI Concentration, But UN’s Vision Entrenches It

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““The UN’s global AI governance discourse appears to simultaneously throttle the gas and brakes on AI, promoting global AI adoption while it warns about the serious risks it poses to society,” writes Bradley McNeil. Its "AI vision risks entrenching the very …”

Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
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Meta facial recognition feature exposed post-denial

Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

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dell cameron: wow seems weird tbh
Justin Hendrix: wow seems weird tbh
dell cameron: sorry
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
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AI agent monitoring scale essay

We Can’t Monitor AI Agents at Scale. Here’s What It Will Take.

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“Madhulika Srikumar (Partnership on AI) & Vinh Nguyen (Council on Foreign Relations) argue regulators and developers agree AI agents must be monitored in real time—but the infrastructure to do it "doesn't exist yet in any mature form for the volume and compl…”

“Madhulika Srikumar (Partnership on AI) & Vinh Nguyen (Council on Foreign Relations) argue regulators and developers agree AI agents must be monitored in real time—but the infrastructure to do it "doesn't exist yet in any mature form for the volume and compl…”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 5d ago
labor subcontracting AI economy analysis

Labor Power and the Role of Subcontracting in the AI Economy

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“Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
learnright AI copyright proposal essay

Copyright Law Wasn’t Built for the AI Era. We Need ‘Learnright.'

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“When AI can instantly mimic creative work, "it's hard to imagine many current markets for creative human expression surviving," write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale. Their answer: give creators a "learnright" and make AI companies pay to train.”