November 10, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI: Nov 10, 2023

This Week in Responsible AI: Nov 10, 2023

Transparency

• Tenant Screening Companies Make Hard Situations For Renters Even Harder — Here’s How

Privacy

• "For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about active-duty military members and veterans, including their names, home addresses, geolocation, net worth, and religion, and information about their children and health conditions."

• Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

Policy

• AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

• "Researchers call for an academic-industry partnership on the scale of the Human Genome Project to make large language models useful and beneficial to society."

Fairness and inclusion

• "Kelly is a Warm Person, Joseph is a Role Model": Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Reference Letters

• AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’

• ‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing

• Hikvision Violates Pledge, Ethnic Minority Analytics In Latest Platform

• Some image generators produce more problematic stereotypes than others, but all fail at diversity

• WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

Misinformation and propaganda

• ‘A death sentence for my father’: Meta’s contribution to human rights abuses in northern Ethiopia

• A Viral Deepfake Made It Look Like Bella Hadid Said She ‘Stands With Israel’

• How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI

• Meta bars political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools

• Adobe Is Selling AI-Generated Images of Violence in Gaza and Israel

• Google Photos' Magic Editor will refuse to make these edits

Other

• CHALLENGING WORKER DATAFICATION

• Can AI help boost accessibility? These researchers tested it for themselves

• Into the LAION’s Den: Investigating Hate in Multimodal Datasets

• AI Doomers Are Finally Getting Some Long Overdue Blowback

Compiled by Leif Hancox-Li