December 6, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI, Dec 6 2023

This Week in Responsible AI, Dec 6 2023

Data

• Training Data Transparency in AI: Tools, Trends, and Policy Recommendations

• New research: asking humans to label data descriptively rather than normatively can lead to much harsher AI decisions

Power

• A growing number of technologists think AI is giving Big Tech ‘inordinate’ power

• "Thanks to platform dominance and the self-reinforcing properties of the surveillance business model, they own and control the ingredients necessary to develop and deploy large-scale AI. They also shape the incentive structures for the field of research and development in AI, defining the technology’s present and future."

Policy/Law

• The Pillars of a Rights-Based Approach to AI Development

• President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence—Implications for Health Care Organizations

• THE URGENT PROBLEM OF REGULATING AI IN MEDICINE

• Europe’s world-leading artificial intelligence rules are facing a do-or-die moment. See also: 1, 2.

• CBP Is Testing Palmer Luckey's AI-Powered Surveillance Towers in the Great Lakes

• Elon Musk and Tesla ignored Autopilot’s fatal flaws, judge says evidence shows

• AI Alliance Launches as an International Community of Leading Technology Developers, Researchers, and Adopters Collaborating Together to Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI

• The copyright case against AI art generators just got stronger with more artists and evidence

Security

• ChatGPT's training data can be exposed via a "divergence attack"

• Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones

Human-Computer Interaction

• AI and Trust

• A CONVERSATION WITH KEN HOLSTEIN: FOSTERING HUMAN-AI COMPLEMENTARITY

Fakes

• AnyDream: Secretive AI Platform Broke Stripe Rules to Rake in Money from Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes

• Sports Illustrated deletes articles published under fake author names and AI-generated profile photos

• Meta updates political advertising rules to cover AI-generated images and videos

• A high school’s deepfake porn scandal is pushing US lawmakers into action

• The Rise of AI-Powered Stars: Big Money and Risks

• a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show

Other

• Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone

• Fei-Fei Li and the binders full of women in AI

• What happens when you ask DeepSeek, a new chatbot from China, about censorship

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li