Category «AI»

How to avoid falling for misinformation and conspiracy theories

Washington Post [unpaywalled] – There’s a flood of real, misleading and fake breaking news and information online. Proceed with caution: “Anyone with an internet connection can watch breaking news unfold in real time, or at least some version of it. Across social media, posts can fly up faster than most fact-checkers and moderators can handle, …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Governing in the Age of AI: A New Model to Transform the State

Governing in the Age of AI: A New Model to Transform the State is a joint report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Faculty.”…In this report, we describe an AI-enabled model of government in which every citizen has their own digital public assistant to help manage their relationship with the government, freeing …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 13, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 13, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Transportation

TikTok Content Farms Use AI Voiceovers to Mass-Produce Political Misinformation

“In September 2023, NewsGuard identified what appeared to be the first of its kind: a network of 17 TikTok accounts using AI text-to-speech software to create videos advancing conspiracy theories about celebrities, amassing hundreds of millions of views. Now, the phenomenon appears to be growing and shifting its focus to politics. NewsGuard has identified 41 …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Private-Sector AI Indicators Dataset

DataIsPlural: “The Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset, from Georgetown University’s Emerging Technology Observatory, provides “a diverse range of indicators of AI-related activity for hundreds of companies worldwide, from startups to multinationals.” For each of the 670+ companies included, the dataset counts the number of AI-related research articles published by its employees (disaggregated by topic), AI-related patents …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

NewsGuard Launches Monthly AI News Misinformation Monitor

Creating Benchmark for Comparing the Trustworthiness of Leading Generative AI Models – “NewsGuard today launched a monthly AI News Misinformation Monitor – see the July 2024 issue here, setting a new standard for measuring the accuracy and trustworthiness of the AI industry by tracking how each leading generative AI model is responding to prompts related …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

When implementing AI, first train your managers

ZDNET: “Businesses are rushing into GenAI before establishing adequate systems of governance, which could result in serious issues with quality and compliance down the road. Dropping artificial intelligence into an organization requires more than a working knowledge of AI — this is only the first step. A recent survey shows most organizations and their IT …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Education, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Re-Regulating UPL in an Age of AI

Walters, Ed, Re-Regulating UPL in an Age of AI (May 25, 2024). 8 Georgetown Law Technology Review 316 (2024), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4822750 “States regulate the Unauthorized Practice of Law as a way to protect consumers from fraudulent, negligent, or incompetent legal services. Although states have not agreed on what specifically constitutes the “practice of …

Subjects: AI, Legal Research

Washington Post Chatbot in Beta Responds to Questions About Climate

Washington Post – Your climate questions, answered. This is an experiment from The Washington Post to use AI to help answer your climate questions. Responses are based solely on published reporting by Post journalists. Please verify any information with the underlying articles. See also the site’s Feedback Form – Did you find what you were …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management

Future of Professionals Report

Thomson Reuters – Future of Professionals Report. AI-powered technology & the forces shaping professional work. July 2024. “Key findings – First, the productivity benefits we have been promised are now becoming more apparent. As AI adoption has become widespread, professionals can more tangibly tell us about how they will use this transformative technology and the …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing