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Ethics/Legal/Security AI News: Week Ending 03/29/2024

March 29, 2024

“One concern I have about AI implementation is that business leaders will see it purely as a way of cutting costs, because of a failure of imagination. This will hurt companies As I discuss in this Forbes interview, organizations need to think more deeply. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1772630078024778029

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. | MIT Technology Review – https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/04/1089403/large-language-models-amazing-but-nobody-knows-why/

“GDP poisons are far stronger than previous attacks, even when the attacker can only poisons very few training samples, they transfer to unknown architectures in the harder black-box setting, and they bypass a variety of defenses. 8/8 https://twitter.com/micahgoldblum/status/1772639973956522292

“We show how to make data poisoning and backdoor attacks way more potent by synthesizing them from scratch with guided diffusion. 🧵 1/8 Paper: https://twitter.com/micahgoldblum/status/1772639959528137107

“Crypto money secretly funding AI doomerism, lobbying for AI regulations, and effectively working against open source AI platforms.” / X – https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1772637496544731474

Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-read-private-ai-assistant-chats-even-though-theyre-encrypted/

EU Warns Election Deepfakes Start to Surface in Member Nations – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/eu-warns-election-deepfakes-start-to-surface-in-member-nations

A personalized chatbot is more likely to change your mind than another human, study finds – https://the-decoder.com/a-personalized-chatbot-is-more-likely-to-change-your-mind-than-another-human-study-finds/

“If you haven’t disabled voice authentication for your bank account and had a conversation with your family about AI voice impersonation yet, now would be a good time.” / X – https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/1773799870890918358

Biden orders every US agency to appoint a chief AI officer | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/why-every-federal-agency-must-now-appoint-a-chief-ai-officer/

Every US federal agency must hire a chief AI officer – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114105/federal-agencies-ai-responsible-guidance-omb-caio

Mamma Mia star Sara Poyzer is replaced by AI for BBC production as she calls the shock decision ‘sobering’ and ‘grim times’ for the industry | Daily Mail Online – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13245821/Mamma-Mia-star-Sara-Poyzer-replaced-AI-BBC-production-calls-shock-decision-sobering-grim-times-industry.html

Google’s new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams – https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/googles-new-ai-search-results-promotes-sites-pushing-malware-scams/

Mitre Opens Lab to Test US Government’s Artificial Intelligence – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-25/mitre-opens-lab-to-test-us-government-s-artificial-intelligence

NYC will test AI gun detectors on the subway – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114956/nyc-subway-ai-gun-detectors-evolv-technologies

Microsoft Creates Tools to Stop People From Tricking Chatbots – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/microsoft-creates-tools-to-stop-people-from-tricking-chatbots

AI: Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world’s most dangerous technology – POLITICO – https://www.politico.eu/article/ai-control-kamala-harris-nick-clegg-meta-big-tech-social-media/

Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices – https://openai.com/blog/navigating-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-synthetic-voices

OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/29/24115701/openai-voice-generation-ai-model

Leading AI figures awarded honours | The Independent – https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/deepmind-government-google-bletchley-park-milton-keynes-b2520327.html

FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces OMB Policy to Advance Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management in Federal Agencies’ Use of Artificial Intelligence | The White House – https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/28/fact-sheet-vice-president-harris-announces-omb-policy-to-advance-governance-innovation-and-risk-management-in-federal-agencies-use-of-artificial-intelligence/

Mamma Mia star Sara Poyzer is replaced by AI for BBC production as she calls the shock decision ‘sobering’ and ‘grim times’ for the industry | Daily Mail Online – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13245821/Mamma-Mia-star-Sara-Poyzer-replaced-AI-BBC-production-calls-shock-decision-sobering-grim-times-industry.html

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