AI Ethics Weekly – March 2: Are you ready for a world where robots kill and your AI lies?

AI Ethics Weekly – March 2: Are you ready for a world where robots kill and your AI lies?
March 1, 2020 LH3_Admin

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Facebook Just Pulled the Plug on F8 Over Coronavirus Fears. Which Major Tech Conference Is Next?
 “A series of cancellations of large public events is leading some companies to wonder when we’ll see a return to normal.” Stay safe and healthy everyone!

Thinking About ‘Ethics’ in the Ethics of AI
h/t Maria Luciana Axente @maria_axente
“One of the fundamental questions in the ethics of AI, therefore, can be formulated as a problem of value alignment: how can we build autonomous AI that is aligned with societally held values.” Read more.

Thinking About ‘Ethics’ in the Ethics of AI
h/t Maria Luciana Axente @maria_axente
“One of the fundamental questions in the ethics of AI, therefore, can be formulated as a problem of value alignment: how can we build autonomous AI that is aligned with societally held values.” Read more.

Scoop: Facebook hire aims to infuse ethics into product design
h/t Maria Luciana Axente @maria_axente
“In the wake of its many scandals and amid growing regulatory scrutiny, Facebook is looking to make sure it addresses ethical issues earlier in the design and engineering processes.” Read more.

POLITICO – AI: Decoded
“Decoded: Trump’s White House throws its weight behind OECD AI efforts — Lobbying battle over Europe’s AI rules — Fighting hate speech with AI”  Read more.

Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA
h/t Kate Crawford @katecrawford
“A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.” Read more.

Op-Ed: The Dangers Of Facial Recognition Tech At Colleges
h/t Liz O’Sullivan @lizjosullivan
“People say kids these days don’t care about privacy. But they are wrong. Just because TikTok videos and Instagram selfies are popular doesn’t mean privacy is dead. Young people around the world are setting boundaries for their data and protecting their right to privacy.” Read more.

AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to Lie
h/t Dorothea Baur @DorotheaBaur
“We need to understand the kinds of deception an AI agent may learn on its own before we can start proposing technological defenses.” Read more.

How killer robots overran the UN
h/t Janosch Delcker @JanoschDelcker
“The killer robots are coming, and it won’t be the United Nations that’ll stop them. That’s the reluctant conclusion some activists are coming to, as an effort to ban “lethal autonomous weapons systems” under the U.N.’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons seems set to fall apart.” Read more.

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