AI Ethics Weekly – October 26: The Not-so-Secret Tech Agenda

AI Ethics Weekly – October 26: The Not-so-Secret Tech Agenda
October 25, 2021 LH3_Admin

It’s not a surprise that tech agenda is pro-profit and anti-humanity but their shady deeds are getting more pushback.

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Gaggle Surveils Millions of Kids in the Name of Safety.
h/t @DRJessieNYC @JessieNYC
The 74 analyzed nearly 1,300 public records from Minneapolis Public Schools to expose how Gaggle subjects students to relentless digital surveillance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, raising significant privacy concerns for more than 5 million young people across the country who are monitored by the company’s digital algorithm and human content moderators. 

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto
Rabble @rabble
Ultimately, gaining attention for yet another new cryptocurrency is a massive challenge, onboarding billions of users is another one, as is ensuring their proprietary hardware can decipher billions of eyeballs in drastically different onboarding environments.

Big Tech is pushing a ‘national cloud.’ Critics say Big Tech would profit from it
Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith
Research groups including New York University’s AI Now Institute and Data & Society, a nonprofit technology research group based in New York, say the very tech companies pushing this idea stand to profit from it, because the national hub would likely be housed in the same companies’ commercial cloud computing services.

Facebook Oversight Board Says Company Wasn’t ‘Forthcoming’
@hypervisible
Facebook Inc.’s Oversight Board said the social media company hadn’t been “fully forthcoming” about internal rules that allowed some high-profile users to be exempt from content restrictions and said it will make recommendations on how to change the system.

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