May 18, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI: May 18, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI: May 18, 2023

General

• What does an AI ethicist do?

• Yoshua Bengio on "Safe and Useful AI"

• Who’s Afraid of A.I.? Podcast interview with Meredith Whittaker

Law/Policy

• "Without meaningful transparency, enforcement of any civil or consumer rights is nearly impossible"

• White House releases a request for information on "automated tools used by employers to surveil, monitor, evaluate, and manage workers".

• The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Generative AI Invites Public Input

• "Three-quarters of decisions by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner in EU cases have been overruled by its European counterparts in favour of tougher enforcement"

• 'Microsoft’s chief economist, Michael Schwarz, said that we should wait until we see “meaningful harm” from AI before we regulate it.'

New Research

• Using the Veil of Ignorance to align AI systems with principles of justice

• Responsible AI Maturity Model

• On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models

• Surveillance and Algorithmic Control in the Call Center

Fairness

• Three short films look at how biases in algorithms and data sets result in unfair practices for communities of color

• New EEOC guidance says four-fifths rule is a rule of thumb

• Australian terrorism prediction tool considered autism a sign of criminality

Privacy

• FTC says popular fertility tracking app Premom shared sensitive data with Chinese analytics firms

• Privacy or safety? U.S. brings 'surveillance city to the suburbs'

• Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block

• TSA tests facial recognition technology to boost airport security

Generative AI

• Congress ponders regulation of powerful emergent A.I. platforms. See also: 1, 2.

• This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers

• Ed Sheeran's Victory for AI

• The Role of Public Interest Technologists in an Age of AI Hype

• Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be

• Meet The AI Expert Who Tested Bangla on GPT

• Podcast: The Great A.I. Hallucination

• Are We Ready for AI to Raise the Dead?

• Unpaid volunteers made it possible to get a new language onto Google Translate

• Not even NYT bestsellers are safe from AI cover art

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li