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Ethics/Legal/Security AI News: Week Ending 03/08/2024

March 8, 2024

For Elon Lawsuit see Open AI section

Licensing AI Means Licensing the Whole Economy – https://www.fromthenew.world/p/licensing-ai-means-licensing-the

US Army tests AI chatbots as battle planners in a war game simulation | New Scientist – https://www.newscientist.com/article/2420184-us-army-tests-ai-chatbots-as-battle-planners-in-a-war-game-simulation/

Palantir wins $178M Army deal for TITAN artificial intelligence-enabled ground stations | DefenseScoop – https://defensescoop.com/2024/03/06/palantir-army-titan-ground-station-award-178-million/

TurboTax and H&R Block’s AI chatbots are giving bad tax advice – The Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/04/ai-taxes-turbotax-hrblock-chatbot/

Chinese national charged with stealing AI secrets from Google | AP News – https://apnews.com/article/china-google-justice-department-63156ade1e564d15d92adbef91e9c5da

“🚨Read this before you use OpenAI for Hiring🚨 @LeonYin @daveyalba and I ran thousands of resume screening tests with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and found that the tech will racially discriminate applicants based only on their name. Serious implications. 🧵 1/10 https://t.co/XDcngpq5pa https://t.co/u5IwBVuHyU” / X – https://twitter.com/Leonardonclt/status/1765903994306560351

“The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers. There are no alternative sources known. From Conway’s Material World: https://t.co/mYfrfub8dw” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1766504587781878196

“Now would be the time for archivists and librarians to begin separating out post-2022 written and visual work from what was produced before. As I saw once on Twitter, “this is the K-T boundary of information.” Anything afterwards is increasingly unlikely to be made by humans.” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1766581955905089747

“”the first LLM designed explicitly for legal text comprehension and generation”” / X – https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1766000220452860097

Microsoft compares New York Times to ’80s movie studios trying to ban VCRs – https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-compares-new-york-times-to-80s-movie-studios-trying-to-ban-vcrs/

Microsoft AI engineer says Copilot Designer creates disturbing images – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/microsoft-ai-engineer-says-copilot-designer-creates-disturbing-images.html

OpenAI, tech companies sign pledge to build AI responsibly | Fortune – https://fortune.com/2024/03/04/openai-signs-open-letter-ai-salesforce-sam-altman-elon-musk/

Top AI researchers ask OpenAI, Meta and more to allow independent research – The Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/05/ai-research-letter-openai-meta-midjourney/

“An ex-Google software engineer was just charged with stealing AI trade secrets from the company and secretly working with two China-based AI startups. The leaker, Linwei Ding, now faces up to 10 years in prison. This story is intense: 1. Google found… https://t.co/3I4CuK32nm” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1765779648666120400

“Reading a tweet is a bit like downloading an (attacker-controlled) executable that you instantly run on your brain. Each one elicits emotions, suggests knowledge, nudges world-view. In the future it might feel surprising that we allowed direct, untrusted information to brain.” / X – https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1766509149297189274

“Amazon Web Services charges you to delete data. New first world problem.” / X – https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1764066416045727891

“We all share responsibility for building AI that improves lives & unlocks a better future for humanity. @SVAngel makes this pledge, and we are proud to initiate this Open Letter: Build AI for a Better Future. Please join @OpenAI, @Meta, @Google, @YCombinator, @HuggingFace,…” / X – https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/1764652519324778966

Prompt Library — More Useful Things: AI Resources – https://www.moreusefulthings.com/prompts

A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming | Knight First Amendment Institute – https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-safe-harbor-for-ai-evaluation-and-red-teaming

How AI Could Disrupt Hollywood | Vanity Fair – https://www.vanityfair.com/news/ai-hollywood-letter-from-la

Amazon funds female-led AI startup to improve recycling – https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-climate-pledge-fund-ai-recycling

Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster – The New York Times – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a00.qm8I.UrNbQdRlYGEA&smid=url-share

[2403.02817] Here Comes The AI Worm: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered Applications – https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02817

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI | The White House – https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/21/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-secures-voluntary-commitments-from-leading-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-manage-the-risks-posed-by-ai/
AI outperforms humans in standardized tests of creative potential | ScienceDaily – https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240301134758.htm

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