April 23, 2024

This Week in Responsible AI: Apr 23, 2024

This Week in Responsible AI: Apr 23, 2024

Bias

• 'If AI-ese sounds like African English, then African English sounds like AI-ese. Calling people a “bot” is already a schoolyard insult... how much worse will it get when a significant chunk of humanity sounds like the AI systems they were paid to train?'

• White Men Lead, Black Women Help: Uncovering Gender, Racial, and Intersectional Bias in Language Agency

Tools and Resources

• Announcing MLCommons AI Safety v0.5 Proof of Concept

• CYBERSECEVAL 2: A Wide-Ranging Cybersecurity Evaluation Suite for Large Language Models

• "CodeShield is a robust inference time filtering tool engineered to prevent the introduction of insecure code generated by LLMs into production systems."

• Appropriate reliance on Generative AI: Research synthesis

• The Markup provides a guide to spotting deepfaked video and audio.

Law/Policy

• Will You Take This Algorithm to Court?

• NIST adds 5 new members to its AI Safety Institute

• Can AI Standards Have Politics?

Other

• Technological risks are not the end of the world

• Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom

• From “AI” to Probabilistic Automation: How Does Anthropomorphization of Technical Systems Descriptions Influence Trust?

• Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li