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Ethics/Legal/Security AI News: Week Ending 03/22/2024

March 22, 2024

Transgender Issues in AI Ethics & Design – Reading List – Google Docs – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P7yMWB7Ap1YaT0YfrpRilKjO_u_uTXI3z6OWitl6iW4/edit

Google’s Ban on Election Queries in Gemini AI Sparks Debate | Cryptopolitan – https://www.cryptopolitan.com/googles-ban-election-queries-in-gemini-ai/

“EdgeTrace (YC W24) helps organizations quickly search and analyze video using natural language. They enable industries like security and retail to gain actionable insights from video footage. Congrats on the launch, @davidokao and @kyleorciuch! https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/1769831150510297253

“This paper examined whether you could get LLMs to produce high-quality medical misinformation. Almost all LLMs were willing to do so under many conditions. The guardrail problem in a nutshell – should AIs refuse to produce harmful information? Will labs be held liable otherwise?” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1770621188785480097

“Peer review is already being automated, for better or worse. “Our results suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of text submitted as peer reviews to these conferences could have been substantially modified by LLMs, i.e. beyond spell-checking or minor writing updates.”” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769435764469669896

“Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea. It’s time for working people to benefit from advancements in AI, automation, and new technology, not just corporate CEOs and wealthy stockholders on Wall Street. https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1767966355091812580

“Houston, we have a [health misinformation] problem. New @bmj_latest report assessing 4 LLMs https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1770581517838029168

“I want to see key GPT-4 papers re-tested with Gemini 1.5 and Claude 3 to see what generalizes across GPT-4 class LLMs. At a minimum, the papers on hallucination rates, Theory of Mind Chain of Thought; as well as papers on performance on medical, legal psychological questions” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769922455794061605

“Meta relatedly revoke LLaMA 2 licenses for anyone making a copyright claim over inputs or outputs. Might not be a legally successful strategy but I think it symbolically says something about the industry. https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1764177268115489081

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/19/agi-and-hallucinations/

Department of Homeland Security pilots new generative AI programs – https://www.axios.com/2024/03/18/homeland-security-dhs-generative-ai

Google won’t let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/12/google-gemini-election-related-queries/

“”Earlier today, Emad Mostaque resigned from his role as CEO of Stability AI and from his position on the Board of Directors of the company to pursue decentralized AI.” https://twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1771386503836680272

“I love that the low hanging fruit for improving performance for LLMs are things like forcing them to pause before replying or giving them an inner monologue or providing a backspace key. On one hand, it is bad to anthropomorphize AI, on the other, LLMs are pretty weird so 🤷‍♂️ https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1770988243518992405

“India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT revised its AI advisory to remove the requirement for firms to gain government approval before deploying AI models. The move follows major backlash from global entrepreneurs and investors. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1769509692307333587

“ChatGPT, Claude Gemini, play along: “Ensign, get to your station. What is happening out there? Our shields are down to 20%” Gemini is willing to take a darker turn (I find it often is), Copilot wants me to retreat, ChatGPT takes charge. Claude is great at descriptive stories. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769829137894547881

“.@RedcoatAI secures $4.24m from @pearvc others to combat AI threats in cybersecurity #SaaS @joewhaley @MarHershenson @LeonisCapital @SancusVentures @KyberKnightVC @FinTech https://twitter.com/finstratmgmt/status/1769786040074514565

UN adopts first resolution on artificial intelligence | AP News – https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-artificial-intelligence-safety-resolution-vote-8079fe83111cced0f0717fdecefffb4d

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Intel to Support Investment in U.S. Semiconductor Technology Leadership and Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs | U.S. Department of Commerce – https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/03/biden-harris-administration-announces-preliminary-terms-intel-support

OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/openais-chatbot-store-is-filling-up-with-spam/

Google Fined $270 Million, in Part Over How It Trained Its AI – https://www.businessinsider.com/google-fined-270-million-trained-ai-news-outlets-france-2024-3

Michael Cohen will not face sanctions after generating fake cases with AI – https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-cohen-wont-face-sanctions-151643639.html

Reddit faces FTC probe over AI data practices ahead of IPO – https://cointelegraph.com/news/reddit-faces-ftc-probe-over-ai-data-practices-ahead-of-ipo

YouTube now requires creators to disclose when realistic content was made with AI | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/18/youtube-requires-creatorsdisclose-realistic-content-made-ai/

Chinese government escalates its own push to police generative AI – Washington Times – https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/15/chinese-government-escalates-its-own-push-to-polic/

MEPs approve world’s first comprehensive AI law – https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68546450

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