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'Lavender' AI and human 'rubber stamps.'
We often talk about opportunities and risks of AI as if these two notions are independent. The below investigation through breaks this way of thinking: opportunities for one = risks for the other.
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

As a matter of empirical fact, we are living in a world where some say they advance AGI for benefiting all of humanity while even basic tech remains unused in distributing food to those facing famine and starvation. Who's gonna ensure that AI's advancements would benefit all of…

Now accepting applications for IDEAS Boston 2024!

For undergraduate students, to spend two weeks in Boston (Northeastern U. w/ Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics) learning about the ethics & governance of AI from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Expenses-paid.

Please share!
cssh.northeastern.edu/ethics/2024-id…

I really love the active discussion abt the role of ethics in AI, spurred by Google Gemini's text-to-image launch & its relative lack of white representation. As one of the most experienced AI ethics people in the world (>4 years! ha), let me help explain what's going on a bit.

Detecting AI-generated deepfakes with tools like watermarks is more important than ever. 🖼️🤖
But what are watermarks, and how do they work?
Check out our latest ML & Society team blog post about AI watermarking and how it works in image, text and audio: huggingface.co/blog/watermark…

Programming is a powerful way of thinking. Your job is to enhance the productivity of thinking by a safe automation of its sub-components. It is not your job to stop a powerful way of thinking on the premise that a trillion-dollar corporation's network of computational…

Increased computational power is central to recent AI progress.

Governing compute could be an effective way to achieve AI policy goals, but could also introduce new societal risks.

We explore compute governance in a recent multi-author paper.

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models.

cohere.com/research/aya

Really really interesting intervention -- strongly encourage folks working on AI existential risk to check it out

My thoughts on the fascinating new study in Science
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… by Vong et al in the Financial Times. 1/2

ft.com/content/f67196…

🧵In the past few months, I have been working on a project involving the difficulties of doing good AI audits with black-box access. Whenever I talk about it with people, I almost always get the same question -- 'But what about security and leaks?'
arxiv.org/abs/2401.14446

This is the only realistic solution to AI-generated content in the long term, that major social media companies develop in-house tools capable of detecting and labelling AI-generated content as soon as it's posted to their platforms.

Do you wish you could test a different social media algorithm? Now you can.
Announcing the Prosocial Ranking Challenge. $60,000 in prize money -- and we will test five winning algorithms on real users and real platforms using a browser extension.
humancompatible.ai/news/2024/01/1…

Such low point
The New York Times
has reached by publishing a blatantly racist opinion piece by Thomas Friedman titled “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.”

Happy to see this work on arxiv!

In it, we survey 300+ AI audit papers & dozens of audit reports from various domains (academia, civil society, govt, etc) to taxonomize what exactly is going on in the AI audit space & how their methods relate to impact on actual accountability.

#AI Act: it's a wrap! EU countries endorsed the text unanimously. An overview of how we got here since the troubled political agreement in December and what we can expect next in my last article for Euractiv.
euractiv.com/section/artifi…