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The Guardian – Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, warns a coalition of environmental groups – “Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has …
Tournament of Books: “But it’s not really a contest. We’re not even sure it’s a “tournament.” What the ToB has been and will be, as long as we’re putting it on, is a month-long conversation about novels and reading and writing and art that takes place on weekdays in March. Here’s how it works. Throughout …
OECD.AI Policy Observatory – Lee Tiedrich, Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethical Technology, Duke University Science & Society. March 5, 2024. Society faces an urgent and complex artificial intelligence (AI) data scraping challenge. Left unsolved, it could threaten responsible AI innovation. Data scraping refers to using web crawlers or other means to obtain data from third-party …
Revisión Crítica de Jurisprudencia y Gobernanza. Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law. Gendered disinformation and social networks. Argelia Queralt Jiménez. March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moad094, “The subject of this article is gender-based disinformation on social networks. This type of disinformation is identified with those contents that circulate on networks with the aim of …
techradar: “A new study of more than 1,000 remote workers by Beyond Identity has revealed that co-working spaces could actually be costing businesses their cybersecurity despite being cheaper in terms of rent. According to the report, co-working spaces are the most likely place for data to be stolen, with 18% having previously chosen to locate …
Cooper, A. Feder and Lee, Katherine and Grimmelmann, James and Grimmelmann, James and Daphne Ippolito, Daphne Ippolito and Callison-Burch, Christopher and Choquette-Choo, Christopher A. and Mireshghallah, Niloofar and Brundage, Miles and Mimno, David and Choksi, Madiha Zahrah and Balkin, Jack M. and Carlini, Nicholas and De Sa, Christopher and Frankle, Jonathan and Ganguli, Deep and …
EFF- Cory Doctorow: “Privacy First” is a simple, powerful idea: seeing as so many of today’s technological problems are also privacy problems, why don’t we fix privacy first? Whether you’re worried about kids’ mental health, or tech’s relationship to journalism, or spying by foreign adversaries, or reproductive rights, or AI deepfakes, or nonconsensual pornography, you’re …
Tech Republic: “LinkedIn also released its 2024 Workplace Learning Report, which found that more people want to learn AI skills. Plus, LinkedIn Learning is offering new career development and internal mobility features. To help build AI literacy in the enterprise, LinkedIn is offering 250 AI courses for free through April 5th in tandem with its …
sifted: “EU lawmakers finally came to an agreement on the AI Act at the end of 2023 — a piece of legislation that had been in the works for years to regulate artificial intelligence and prevent misuses of the technology. Now the text is going through a series of votes before it becomes EU law …
Internet Archive Blogs: “In the summer of 2023, the New York Times ran an article titled “Ways You Can Still Cancel Your Federal Student Loan Debt.” The article outlined six ways to cancel student debt, with the final being: “Death This is not something that most people would choose as a solution to their debt burden.” …
“Three recent FTC enforcement actions reflect a heightened focus on pervasive extraction and mishandling of consumers’ sensitive personal data. Proposed Settlements with Avast X-Mode and InMarket. In mid February, the FTC announced a proposed settlement to resolve allegations that Avast, a security software company, unfairly sold consumers’ granular and re-identifiable browsing information—information that Avast amassed …
Journalist’s Tool Box – AI And Plagiarism Detection Tools: “I post this here as a warning. There are tools such as AI Undetect and Humanize AI Text, rewrite tools that offer an AI detection remover service. They can fool GPTZero, ZeroGPT, Copyleak, etc.”
