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Arthur Holland Michel retweeted
🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Apple ran a conference for cops, hosting at Cupertino.
Called the Apple Global Police Summit, it welcomed cops from seven countries to talk about how they use Apple tech, from iPhones to CarPlay to Vision Pro.
And yes, for surveillance apps.
forbes.com/sites/thomasbrews…
Arthur Holland Michel retweeted
If machine learning can win the physics Nobel, where do we draw the line? Everything is physics if you squint hard enough
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NEW: License plate readers are enabling private investigators and police to track vehicles with political bumper stickers and homes with lawn signs
w/ @mattburgess1
wired.com/story/license-plat…
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New from 404 Media: Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fatal error for foragers who are trying to find what mushrooms are safe to eat. Could have "devastating consequences" one expert said 404media.co/google-serves-ai…
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It has always bugged me that the debate on military AI portrays autonomy and accountability as binary conditions: is this weapon making a kill decision on its own, and can someone be held accountable if that decision turns out to be wrong? That's a bad way to frame the issue.
Arthur Holland Michel retweeted
"Humans want autonomous machines to be noble, but can they allow the machine to be nobler than they are and still say that they are in charge?" - @WriteArthur | @BulletinAtomic
thebulletin.org/2024/08/im-a…
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‘I’m afraid I can’t do that’: Should killer robots be allowed to disobey orders?
Read the new article from @WriteArthur:
thebulletin.org/2024/08/im-a…
RT @KenDilanianNBC: Rowe: “Cost me a lot of sleep” because Secret Service counter done capability was not operational when the shooter flew…
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X is automatically opting users in to sharing data w/ the Grok chatbot for training and fine-tuning. Historically this is the kind of thing that pisses people off, particularly if they're not aware of it in advance. You can turn it off here:
xitter.cf/settings/grok_settings
Arthur Holland Michel retweeted
States across the US are seeking to criminalize certain uses of AI-generated content. Civil rights groups are pushing back, arguing that some of these new laws conflict with the First Amendment. wired.com/story/aclu-artific…
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“Every time we make a new video or send an email, or post a photo of our latest meal, it’s like turning on a small light bulb that’ll never be turned off,” @WriteArthur writes. “To help save the planet, should we be using less data?” theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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"my yearly work activities generate as much CO2 as a Ford Focus driving 3,000 miles ... And if ubiquitous AI turns that Focus into a diesel SUV, is it because the vox populi actually asked for it?" @WriteArthur theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Our third episode of “Reclaim Democracy: Stories from the Oslo Freedom Forum,” created in partnership with
@ForeignPolicy features journalist and researcher @WriteArthur.
He joins us to discuss the intersection between AI and activism.
👉 Listen here: buff.ly/45T32wx
Arthur Holland Michel retweeted
Perplexity has now updated their forgery of our reporting to list us as the *third* citation after 2 reblogs of stories we broke, and to add an inline attribution to Forbes that, lol, points to Business Insider's reblog of our most recent work.
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I try not to be precious about too much, but @richardjnieva and I have broken ~every single~ piece of news about this project, which has involved months of reporting that Perplexity comes very close to plagiarizing (without even mentioning us by name!)
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Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by @perplexity_ai . It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views. #zeroclick forbes.com/sites/sarahemerso…
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3/ 16:30 in Lille Sal: "The Race for Automated Warfare," moderated by @JornHaanes with Arthur Holland Michel (@WriteArthur), @ilaria_carrozza, and Jason Hsu (@augama).
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We are pleased to invite you to attend our online co-hosted event with the International Committee of the Red Cross on Artificial Intelligence in Military Decision Making. The event will launch two significant reports on the subject: geneva-academy.ch/event/all-…
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When the War Machine Decides: Algorithms, Secrets, and Accountability in Modern Conflict
Deep thanks to @WriteArthur and @carnegiecouncil
for inviting me to speak about the future of AI in war.
Listen: carnegiecouncil.org/media/po…
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Tomorrow, virtually at 6pm ET! Our very own Research Director @mEleniManis will be joining @carnegiecouncil's @WriteArthur and @Kennedy_School's Chris Gilliard. Together, they will discuss the ethics of data fusion. Register using this link: info.carnegiecouncil.org/imp…
