This Week in Responsible AI: Jan 17, 2023

        January 17, 2024

This Week in Responsible AI: Jan 17, 2023

    This Week in Responsible AI: Jan 17, 2023
Bias

"LMs can be explicitly prompted to express confidences, but tend to be overconfident, resulting in high error rates... we investigate the preference-annotated datasets used in RLHF alignment and find that humans have a bias against texts with uncertainty."

"the term ‘bias’ creates real confusion among tech workers, meaning that the term is unable to do the ethical work it is intended to do"

A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

Governance

OpenAI announces team to build ‘crowdsourced’ governance ideas into its models

Facial Recognition: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance

Here’s OpenAI’s big plan to combat election misinformation

Data

AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters

MiTTenS: A Dataset for Evaluating Misgendering in Translation

MetaHate: A Dataset for Unifying Efforts on Hate Speech Detection

Major security flaw in Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs puts AI data at risk

Labor

‘African governments should focus on urgent programmes to develop an AI-ready workforce’

Workday Global Survey Reveals AI Trust Gap in the Workplace

Law/Policy

“The FTC’s action is significant because of the prohibitions—barring the company from selling data about sensitive locations, rather than
just paying fines”

New York State Department of Financial Services Proposes Artificial Intelligence Guidance to Combat Discrimination

Fakes

Congress Is Trying to Stop AI Nudes and Deepfake Scams Because Celebrities Are Mad

Google and Bing put nonconsensual deepfake porn at the top of some search results

I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy

Voice cloning tech to power 2024 political ads as disinformation concerns grow

AI models that don’t violate copyright are getting a new certification label

Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

Other

"OpenAI will pay those who create the most engaging GPT's. This makes their incentives very close to those of social media—capturing attention."

A Conference (Missingness in Action) to Address Missingness in Data and AI in Health Care: Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Anthropic researchers find that AI models can be trained to deceive.

Power in AI: Inequality Within and Without the Algorithm

            Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li

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