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iPhone photo. a humanoid robot stickes its head out from inside the privacy curtains of a voting booth in an elementary school gym. --ar 5:3

Ethics/Legal/Security AI News: Week Ending 04/12/2024

April 12, 2024

iPhone photo. a humanoid robot stickes its head out from inside the privacy curtains of a voting booth in an elementary school gym. –ar 5:3 –v 6.0 –style raw

“Tesla settles wrongful death lawsuit over fatal 2018 Autopilot crash that killed Apple engineer, father of two https://twitter.com/CNBCtech/status/1777474679101399341

“Humans kill 40,000 every year on USA roads but Kentucky just banned AI instead.” / X – https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1777836718647062849

‘Social Order Could Collapse’ in AI Era, Two Top Japan Companies Say – WSJ – https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/social-order-could-collapse-in-ai-era-two-top-japan-companies-say-1a71cc1d?st=5txkg0yn7noxapf

New Oracle AI-powered Cloud Service Helps Banks Mitigate Anti-Money-Laundering Risks – https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/new-oracle-ai-powered-cloud-service-helps-banks-mitigate-anti-money-laundering-risks-2024-04-08/

Microsoft issues warning on China’s use of generative AI to disrupt US elections | TechSpot – https://www.techspot.com/news/102524-microsoft-issues-warning-china-use-generative-ai-disruption.html

TikTok Plots Using Virtual Influencers for Advertising — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-plots-using-virtual-influencers-for-advertising

Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data | Reuters – https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-big-techs-underground-race-buy-ai-training-data-2024-04-05/

New Bill to Require Disclosure of Songs Used in Generative AI Training – https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/federal-bill-ai-training-require-disclosure-songs-used-1235651089/

‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/29/how-ai-is-affecting-video-game-actors

The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge | WIRED – https://archive.md/OoGEK

People liked AI art – when they thought it was made by humans – https://www.sciencenorway.no/art-artificial-intelligence/people-liked-ai-art-when-they-thought-it-was-made-by-humans/2337417

Statement from President Joe Biden on CHIPS and Science Act Preliminary Agreement with TSMC | The White House – https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/08/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-chips-and-science-act-preliminary-agreement-with-tsmc/

40% of Companies Will Use AI to ‘Interview’ Job Applicants, Report | IBTimes UK – https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/40-companies-will-use-ai-interview-job-applicants-report-1723901

Meta will label AI content to help prevent deepfakes on Facebook and Instagram – https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/meta-broader-ai-labeling

Korean Air Force mulling use of robot guard dogs to patrol bases – https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-04-01/national/defense/Korean-Air-Force-mulling-use-of-robot-guard-dogs-to-patrol-bases/2015677

AI Crash Course – https://www.sectionschool.com/ai/ai-crash-course

Business Schools Are Going All In on AI – WSJ – https://archive.md/jEYyE

Simbian – Fully Autonomous Security – Company – https://simbian.ai/blogs/Introducing-Simbian-and-Fully-Autonomous-Security

Jamie Dimon’s Letter to Shareholders, Annual Report 2023 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. – https://reports.jpmorganchase.com/investor-relations/2023/ar-ceo-letters.htm

“There is a new AI proposal from @aipolicyus. It should SLAM the Overton window shut. It’s the most authoritarian piece of tech legislation I’ve read in my entire policy career (and I’ve read some doozies). Everything in the bill is aimed at creating a democratically https://twitter.com/neil_chilson/status/1777695468656505153

“In Montreal, PM Justin Trudeau announces a $2.4-billion package from the upcoming federal budget to build capacity in artificial intelligence. #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/CPAC_TV/status/1777009073310839136

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. – The New York Times – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html

“New Anthropic research: Measuring Model Persuasiveness We developed a way to test how persuasive language models (LMs) are, and analyzed how persuasiveness scales across different versions of Claude. Read our blog post here: https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1777728366101119101

Measuring the Persuasiveness of Language Models \ Anthropic – https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-model-persuasiveness

Securing Canada’s AI advantage | Prime Minister of Canada – https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2024/04/07/securing-canadas-ai

OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-researchers-including-ally-of-sutskever-fired-for-alleged-leaking

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