Can Silicon Valley Find God?
Article by Linda Kinstler. Published in The New York Times. Excerpt: Alexa, are we humans special among other living things?” One sunny day last June, I sat before my computer screen . . .
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Why we need engineers who study ethics as much as maths
News article by S. Travis Waller, Kourosh Kayvani, Lucy Marshall and Robert F. Care. Published on The Conversation website. Excerpt: The recent apartment building collapse in Miami, Florida, is a tragic reminder . . .
Apple’s Siri is no longer a woman by default, but is this really a win for feminism?
News article by Eleonore Fournier-Tombs. Published on The Conversation website. Excerpt: As of March 31, 2021, when Apple released the iOs 14.5 beta update to its operating system, Siri no longer . . .
Towards Human-Centered Explainable AI: the journey so far
News article by Upol Ehsan. Published online in The Gradient. Excerpt: “So, the machine has high accuracy and explains its decisions, but we still don’t have engagement with our users?” . . .
Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence
Press Release from MIT News Office. By Daniel Ackerman. Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI. A . . .
$1.7M grant to pilot AI student education for rural Indiana middle schoolers
Press Release from Indiana University. CRANE, Ind. — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, and Indiana University were awarded $1.7 million to collaborate on artificial intelligence programming for rural middle . . .
Fight Fire with Fire: Using Good AI to Combat Bad AI
Blog post by Vik Bogdanov. Published on HackerNoon.com. Excerpt: Real-world cases and expert opinions about the present and future of audio deepfakes and AI-powered fraud in particular and how to . . .
IBM and Microsoft Have Integrated AI Ethical Standards into Their Operations, So Can You
News article by Johanna Perez. Published in IEEE Spectrum. Excerpt: New educational program covers topics you need to know such as transparency and data privacy. The use of artificial intelligence . . .
AI Global Launches Responsible AI Certification Beta, Announces Rebranding
Press Release. AI Global, a non-profit focused on advancing responsible AI, announced the beta launch of an independent and community driven Responsible AI certification system at George Washington University’s Bicentennial . . .
What Multipolar Failure Looks Like, and Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes (RAAPs)
News post by Andrew Critch. Published on the AI Alignment Forum website. Excerpt: This post tells a few different stories in which humanity dies out as a result of AI . . .
How The AI Sector Can Use Nonprofits As An Ethical Example
News article by Moshe Hecht. Published in Forbes. I have a dream. I say a dream, and not a goal or a mission, not because of its loftiness but because . . .
Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.? At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see
News Article by Matthew Hutson. Published in The New Yorker. Excerpt: In computer science, the main outlets for peer-reviewed research are not journals but conferences, where accepted papers are presented . . .