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Author of Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics. @bbcnews "AI: Decoded" @bbcworldservice "Business Matters"

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Technology Is Not Neutral: A short guide to technology ethics is now on the syllabus at Harvard Law School:
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The United Kingdom will have its pint-ordering app ready before its contact tracing app
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Drinkers may order pints via apps under Covid-19 plans for England
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The FTC’s biggest AI enforcement tool? Forcing companies to delete their algorithms Algorithm disgorgement requires companies to remove products built on data they shouldn't have used in the first place.
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The United Kingdom, 2020: Where the government is hiring 18,000 contact tracers to help contain a pandemic that has already killed over 28,000 people and training up 50,000 people to fill out customs forms for post-Brexit trade.
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Meanwhile, in another galaxy, ministers are stepping up plans to train up to 50,000 people needed to fill in customs forms for post-Brexit trade with the EU through the creation of a special academy. via @financialtimes
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An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang, and can still be observed today, says Nobel winner Sir Roger Penrose: 'The Big Bang was not the beginning. There was something before, and that something is what we will have in our future'
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A California-based law firm is launching a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI company that created ChatGPT massively violated thecopyrights and privacy of countless people when it used data scraped from the internet to train its tech.
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I interviewed @crmiller1 about his new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology One of the most important — and impressive — books I’ve read in years. @BaillieGifford @LeoKelion
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2015: British taxpayers finish paying off the last instalment on the loan to compensate slave *owners*. Not slaves or descendants of slaves. Slave owners.
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AFP graphic on Britain's slave trading history @AFPgraphics
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Today in my #CogX19 keynote, I ask the @UKParliament to consider a moratorium on the use of #facialrecognition technology in the United Kingdom until we decide if we want to use it, and if so, with what safeguards (from 1:12:45, panel discussion follows)
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The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) solves the wrong problem: it protects data, not people, and thus fails to protect our privacy and civil liberties:
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"We should hold those who deploy AI systems legally and morally accountable for the outcomes they produce." - FT editorial board cc: @timnitGebru @mathbabedotorg @mer__edith
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1. Why did they not notify the public when they started using facial recognition tech? 2. Why are there no signs even now? 3. What impact assessments did they conduct? 4. What companies built the tech? 5. With what 3rd parties are they sharing our data? 6. Did @SadiqKhan know?
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Kings Cross developer confirms it’s using facial recognition but no clarity on why
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Everything is fine
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PA reporting that Downing St briefing delayed from 1700 to 1830.
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Sam Altman in a week: 1. Regulate us please, we are building technology that poses serious risks 2. If the EU regulates us too hard with the AI Act, we’ll leave Europe 3. Of course we have no plans to leave Europe
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Sam Altman
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very productive week of conversations in europe about how to best regulate AI! we are excited to continue to operate here and of course have no plans to leave.
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4 years
@DominicRaab , here's some reading on this "taking the knee thing": Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee in The New York Times, in 2017
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“The question of the environmental cost of AI is the biggest secret in the industry right now.... we have enormous environmental costs that are not being fully shared with the public.” My interview with Prof. Kate Crawford will change how you see AI:
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“Rather than tell you comforting lies and what you want to hear, I’m going to tell you some unpleasant truths.” Professor @devisridhar starts like this and does not pull her punches — thank you
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As more local lockdowns begin, the hard truth is there's no return to 'normal' | Devi Sridhar
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There is something Shakespearean about the UK's coronavirus laws
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The Independent
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Falsely naming an enemy as a coronavirus contact in order to force them to self-isolate can be fined £1,000
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Fiona Hill: "I’ve been studying authoritarian regimes for three decades, and I know the signs of a coup when I see them. Technically, what Trump attempted is what’s known as a “self-coup” and Trump isn’t the first leader to try it." 1/n
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United States Senator 👇
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Brian Schatz
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For the media. We need you to step up and describe what is happening to our country. Use the words. “Authoritarian.” “Unlawful.” “Autocratic” “Illegal.” It’s not “dramatic” or “trumpian.” Or “risky.” This isn’t a show.
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"Now that the UK’s “dirty little secret” of facial recognition has been revealed for all the world to see, the government has run out of excuses. Parliament must protect all our biometrics in law immediately" My op-ed for @guardianopinion
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Dr Fiona Hill's brilliant analysis: Yes, It Was a Coup. Here’s Why. [thread with key points]
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Fiona Hill: "I’ve been studying authoritarian regimes for three decades, and I know the signs of a coup when I see them. Technically, what Trump attempted is what’s known as a “self-coup” and Trump isn’t the first leader to try it." 1/n
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That 10 living former defense secretaries -- many of them Republican -- published this is a big, flashing warning sign:
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“ChatGPT often gets things wrong. It has been likened to a mansplainer: supremely confident in its answers, regardless of their accuracy”
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Unbelievable. The U.K. govt does not want vaccine passports for the pub to keep us safe, but to ‘nudge’ supposedly vaccine-hesitant young people to get vaccinated. Solve the problem (vaccine hesitancy). No need to create an expensive, discriminatory, civil liberties problem.
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Friday’s Guardian: “Pub check strategy to make young people seek vaccine” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday
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From MAGA to GAGA 🇺🇸
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@BethRigby Given that the government's call for evidence only ended today, why is the expectation that domestic certification will be introduced? How could they possibly have had time to review the submissions of evidence? If this was a foregone conclusion, what's the point of a review?
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For four years, as Trump has brought ever more havoc and hatred to this country, many have wondered what it would take to dent his impunity. The answer appears to be twofold: Committing sedition, and losing power.
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Dickensian Britain.
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BBC Politics
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“Children have been going hungry under a Labour government for years” says Conservative Paul Scully Ahead of a Commons debate on free meals in school holidays, Labour’s Tulip Siddiq asked him: “Do you want to feed hungry children or not?” #politicslive
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The UK is piloting a scheme for facial recognition-vaccine passports as one of many ways we could go to the pub:
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I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
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“The prime minister believes that ordering people to stay away from work, closing schools or cancelling football matches would have little effect currently, but would leave people fed up or angry and less likely to comply in three to six weeks time, when the crisis may peak.”
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Financial Times
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Boris Johnson has taken a politically risky strategy to avoid drastic measures to contain coronavirus. While he claims it’s backed by medical and behavioural science, he is facing awkward questions as Britain’s outbreak worsens
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The UK govt has given @PalantirTech access to data such as "contact info, gender, race, work, physical + mental health conditions, political + religious affiliation, + past criminal offenses." Which data is needed to suppress the coronavirus, + which is not? cc: @ICOnews
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Britain’s National Health Service gave Peter Thiel's Palantir access to sensitive personal data of patients under a deal to help it cope with the Covid-19 outbreak
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I guess "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is one-way traffic: @Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set, @Stanford and @DukeU also remove their #facialrecognition data sets
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@MartinSLewis @hmtreasury Why does @RishiSunak think it is fair for workers in this category to *take on debt* in order to financially survive this pandemic, while furloughed self-employed and salaried workers receive 80% of their monthly pay without having to take on debt? Thank you
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London is implementing facial recognition without public consultation, a legislative framework or judicial oversight, endangering our civil liberties and the rule of law. What a disturbing example to set for the world. My latest for @washingtonpost :
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Atlas Hugged
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Silicon Valley friends: a) you'll probably get bailed out so stop saying the world's about to end. b) please now stop insisting that you don't need government. You're literally begging for it.
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This must be what it feels like to be a fish swimming into a net: @metpoliceuk is using live facial recognition technology outside Oxford Circus. There are signs outside, but none in the Tube @TfL , so you exit the Tube and GOTCHA! So much for consent. Smile! You're on camera.
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Technology is not neutral
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. @Microsoft ’s Bing Chat AI really doesn’t want to talk about the Uyghurs.
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My questions: "We don’t know if vaccine passports would help to stop the spread of the virus. We don’t know how long immunity lasts. We don’t know to what extent vaccines reduce transmission or whether this varies depending on which vaccine we’ve had."
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@mervatim ⁩ this book is such a treat and a treasure trove — thank you for writing it. Any chance you’ll publish any other annotated works?
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“People don’t care about privacy”
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NEWS: WhatsApp delays privacy changes amid a backlash and user exodus
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@AdamWagner1 @mikarv Looks like there's only one response to this:
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Balzac’s coffee pot ☕️ 📚
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"Less than half the UK population can expect to be vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of the government’s vaccine task force said. Kate Bingham told the FT that vaccinating everyone in the country was “not going to happen”: “We just need to vaccinate everyone at risk.”
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Vaccinating all of UK ‘not going to happen’, says task force head
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"In front of a book you are still free. Between reader and book, there is only the continual risk of wrongness, word by word, sentence by sentence. The Internet does not get to decide. Nor does the writer. Only the reader decides. So decide." Zadie Smith
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Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias + data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spaces
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Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU
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The British government is framing the downloading of its contact tracing app as the 'duty' of everyone with a smartphone so that we can all get back to work. The threat has not diminished: there is still no cure, no vaccine. 1/n
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BBC News (UK)
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Tuesday's Times: "Download tracing app and get UK back to work" (via @AllieHBNews ) #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Amazon sued for not telling New York store customers about facial recognition Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking biometric information. @ICOnews
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Facial recognition technology as part of a vaccine passport in Israel, presented by the @wef as though this is a positive thing, with no acknowledgement of the ethical and legal issues this poses:
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Brianna Wu: "We needed the men who sexually harassed us at work to be fired. What we got instead were catered luncheons for women in tech."
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“Because you’re not worth it”
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FT Technology News
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L’Oréal suspends advertising spending on Twitter
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Revealed: Vermeer's patron was, in fact, a woman—and she bought half the artist’s entire oeuvre New research in the Rijksmuseum's catalogue for its Vermeer blockbuster suggests that Maria de Knuijt may have influenced his subject matter
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John le Carré, chronicler of the English, died an Irish citizen (his grandmother was from Cork)
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4 years
Appealing to our sense of duty, rather than saying "our app is the best and here's why" = back to the drawing board. It's our duty to challenge tech when it: - does not solve the problem - is not the best way to solve the problem - is not interoperable w/other countries' apps
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BBC Breakfast
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The Health Secretary explains on #BBCBreakfast what the contact tracing app would say if he and @mrdanwalker spent a period of time together and Matt Hancock went on to display coronavirus symptoms ⤵️ More here:
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Double rainbow over London rainbow 🌈 🌈
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When Bias Is Coded Into Our Technology -- interview with @jovialjoy
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Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes - MIT Technology Review
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Top snark from @robertshrimsley on certain people warning about AI risks while still creating the technologies they claim will lead to those risks materialising:
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Don’t blame us for AI’s threat to humanity, we’re just the technologists | Financial Times
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Facial recognition technology case study:
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Hong Kong government seeks ban on masks during protests
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Germany is possibly the only country in the world where struggling parents are legally entitled to a "Kur", a health retreat of about 3 weeks, every 4 years. A Kur is prescribed by a doctor, and mostly funded by insurance. Meals, childcare and therapies are all included.
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The German clinics for burnt-out parents via @BBC_Future
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As more local lockdowns begin, the hard truth is there's no return to 'normal' | Devi Sridhar
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AI expert @merbroussard : ‘Racism, sexism and ableism are systemic problems’ The journalist and academic says that the bias encoded in artificial intelligence systems can’t be fixed with better data alone – the change has to be societal
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Italian doctor Marcello Natali, who warned early that the shortage of protective supplies was putting healthcare at risk, dies of COVID-19
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‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI One of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence discusses responsibility, ‘moral outsourcing’ and bridging the gap between people and technology
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‘I feel like my kids have been part of a huge massive experiment I have no control over.’ Parents question how much technology in schools is helping. via @WSJ
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Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.
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@zsk ⁩ 😉
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@BigBrotherWatch
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NEWS: We've worked with Lord Clement-Jones, chair of @LordsAICom , on.. Automated Facial Recognition Moratorium Bill! The ICO report on FR today confirms "blanket, opportunistic & indiscriminate processing (of) thousands of individuals to identify a few minor suspects" isn't ok.
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Will thermal cameras help to end the lockdown? 1: will not catch pre-symptomatic people 2: will not catch asymptomatic people 3: will catch people who have a higher temperature for reasons other than COVID-19 Bottom line: meh
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Tim Snyder is now one of the very few historians capable of conducting original research across the region. He speaks 10 languages. “I think of history as having been this amazing liberatory form of education.”
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"OpenAI and Microsoft also created a joint safety board, which includes Mr. Altman and Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, that has the power to roll back Microsoft and OpenAI product releases if they are deemed too dangerous." Who else is on this board?
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The Contradictions of Sam Altman, the AI Crusader Behind ChatGPT - WSJ
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@hendopolis @christopherhope @RishiSunak Will the planned tax raid on self-employed workers include those who did not receive furlough support? That’s around 3 million people @ForgottenLtd @MartinSLewis @fsb_policy
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“We urgently need a legal framework for the use of algorithms by public bodies and government. There is a real risk of unlawful deployment, or of discrimination or bias that may be unwittingly built into an algorithm or introduced by an operator.”
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Bit of a @fleabag vibe to this warning from St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Soho — especially the last line @DryWrite @SiansUniverse @IsobelWB
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Sunrise over Hampstead Heath, London ⁦ @CityCorpHeath
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NOW: Professor @katecrawford and co-founder of @AINowInstitute is giving a masterclass the École normale supérieure in Paris @ENS_ULM on AI and Power: 1: What is AI? 2: Bias: No Easy Tech 'Fix' 3: Classification as Power 4: Geopolitics of AI 5: From Fairness to Justice
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on 15 February 2021: "What I don’t think we will have in this country is, as it were, vaccination passports to allow you to go to, say, the pub or something like that."
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So much for that 6-month moratorium on AI @JamesClayton5 @raziaiqbal
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FT Technology News
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Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence start-up to rival Open AI
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The Red Cross is "concerned that unsuitable design or usage of contact tracing apps could lead to stigmatization, increased vulnerability and fragility, discrimination, persecution, and attacks on the physical and psychological integrity of certain populations."
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Elizabeth Rushing
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Can contact tracing apps help contain #COVID19 while respecting #dataprotection and the right to privacy? Today's blog and audio is a joint @ICRC and @ifrc call for and 'digital do no harm' and diligence. @HADurhamICRC @cecile_aptel @massimomarelli
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@Steven_Swinford On 7 February Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi ruled out vaccine passports in the UK, arguing that they could be “discriminatory” and that it is unclear what impact vaccine passports would have on transmission of the virus:
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I guest edited this week's @exponentialview newsletter, dedicated to #biometrics and #surveillance -- and a Summer Reading list on tech #ethics with new research and analysis. Enjoy! . Many thanks to @azeem @gavrilovva @katieirani @elisethoma5 @saintgiles
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"The Social History of the Potato is an extraordinary book, like no other, a vast compendium of curious fact and passionately recounted social history."
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“The UK is in a structural hole, not a cyclical downturn" "little prospect of an improvement in living standards unless some sanity returns to our trade relations with the EU +until we have a govt with an adequately long-term economic strategy it can get through parliament”.
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UK faces worst and longest recession in G7, say economists
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To recap where we are with facial recognition in London 1/n: - King's Cross developer used it secretly for nearly 2 years, claims to have been helping the @metpoliceuk and @BTP , both of whom deny this. - King's Cross developer plans to continue using facial recognition
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“An artificial intelligence firm hired to work on the Vote Leave campaign may analyse social media data, utility bills and credit rating scores as part of a £400,000 contract to help the government deal with the coronavirus pandemic.”
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AI firm that worked with Vote Leave wins new coronavirus contract
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“The New York legislature today passed a moratorium on the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric identification in schools until 2022. The bill...appears to be the first in the nation to explicitly regulate or ban use of the technology in schools.”
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Maria Luciana Axente
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Hallelujah! New York bans use of #facialrecognition in schools statewide reports @Kyle_L_Wiggers . Congratulations to all that have fought hard and long for it to happen! @hare_brain @carlykind_
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A secretive Home Office unit has hoarded data on millions of people The Data Services & Analytics has data on 650 million people and has been accused of creating a “super database”
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Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works
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