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A five-year study by LinkedIn on nearly 20 million of its users raises ethical red flags since some unknowing participants in the social experiment likely had job opportunities curtailed, experts in data privacy and human resources suggest.
Worth a discussion! Cui bono?
Used by two-thirds of the world’s 100 biggest banks to aid lending decisions, credit scoring giant Fair Isaac Corp (FICO) and its artificial intelligence
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Our gullibility, that is.
Information privacy is in trouble. Contemporary information privacy protections emphasize individuals’ control over their own personal information. But machine learning, the leading form of artificial intelligence, facilitates an inference economy that pushes this protective approach past its breaking point. Machine learning provides pathways to use data and make probabilistic predictions—inferences—that are inadequately addressed by the current regime. For one, seemingly innocuous or irrelevant...
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.
How do we move from "AI ethics" to "AI justice"? A conversation between Mark Hansen and Luke Munn.
AI systems have a profound impact on many lives. And yet the technology industry largely lacks the auditing, evaluation, and accountability mechanisms that are common in other industries. That needs to change.
The hype is distracting from the real pitfalls of bots that mimic humans, risks that many companies would rather ignore.
By telling AI bot to ignore its previous instructions, vulnerabilities emerge.
Today I'm taking a break from talking about the Raft distributed consensus algorithm, compiler design, or the inclusion rubric. Instead, I want to talk about what pride means to me, a queer/gay/lesbian staff software engineer at Pocket. I have written in the past about my coming out story, and what I think is the role…
A Maryland professor created software that can read people’s personalities and “predict their behavior” for tech giant Alibaba, documents obtained by The Daily Beast show.