Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students This article is authored by Ashley Belanger for ArsTechnica. Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting facial-recognition data without their consent. The scandal started when a student using […]
News: Committees Confirm Landmark Agreement on AI Act
News: Committees Confirm Landmark Agreement on AI Act MEPs have endorsed at committee level the provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and complies with fundamental rights. On Tuesday, 13th February, the Internal Market and Civil Liberties Committees voted 71-8 (7 abstentions) to approve the result of negotiations with the member states on the […]
The Quest for a DNA Data Drive
The Quest for a DNA Data Drive This article is featured in IEEE Spectrum and written by Rob Carlson. How much thought do you give to where you keep your bits? Every day we produce more data, including emails, texts, photos, and social media posts. Though much of this content is forgettable, every day we implicitly […]
Article Alert: Priceless Data
Article Alert: Priceless Data This article was co-authored by Bart Custers and Gianclaudio Malgieri. Abstract: Many free online services, including search engines and social media, use business models based on the collecting and processing of personal data of its users. The user data are analysed, leased or sold to generate profits. Basically, the users are […]
Biden Economic Adviser Elizabeth Kelly Picked to Lead AI Safety Testing Body
Biden Economic Adviser Elizabeth Kelly Picked to Lead AI Safety Testing Body This article was written by Will Henshall for Time. Elizabeth Kelly, formerly an economic policy adviser to President Joe Biden, has been named as director of the newly formed U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (USAISI), U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced Wednesday. “For […]
UK’s House of Lords Report on LLMs
UK’s House of Lords Report on LLMs Martin Ebers, President of the Robotics and AI Law Society, writes about UK’s House of Lords report on Large Language Models (LLMs) in one of his LinkedIn post. He writes: The Government’s approach to Artificial Intelligence and large language models (LLMs) has become too focused on a narrow […]
On EU AI Office
On EU AI Office Assimakis Komninos, a partner at White and Case LLP, writes about the establishment of EU AI Office on his LinkedIn post. He writes: One particular development that has gone relatively unnoticed is the publication last week by the European Commission of its Decision establishing the European Artificial Intelligence Office (AI Office). So what […]
Article Alert: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks
Article Alert: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks Authors: Hao-Ping Lee, Yu-Ju Yang, Thomas Serban von Davier, Jodi Forlizzi, Sauvik Das Abstract: Privacy is a key principle for developing ethical AI technologies, but how does including AI technologies in products and services change privacy risks? We constructed a taxonomy of AI privacy risks by […]
Leaked EU AI Act is ‘a wake-up call for organisations’
Leaked EU AI Act is ‘a wake-up call for organisations’ This article was written by Thomas Macaulay for The Next Web. A leak of the EU’s AI Act removes doubts about its adoption, but critics fear that the plans will inhibit innovation. All 892 pages of the final version were published on Monday by Euractiv tech editor […]
Japan’s Approach to AI Regulation and Its Impact on the 2023 G7 Presidency
Japan’s Approach to AI Regulation and Its Impact on the 2023 G7 Presidency This report was authored by Hiroki Habuka and published on Center for Strategic and International Studies. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making significant changes to our businesses and daily lives. While AI brings dramatic solutions to societal problems, its unpredictable nature, unexplainability, and […]