Clearview AI harvested millions of photos from the Internet to create a facial recognition AI now used by thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies.
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UNIVERSAL MUSIC SUES ANTHROPIC
In the latest face-off between AI and intellectual property, a coalition of music recording and publishing companies has sued young AI company Anthropic for $75 million.
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AI-MADE IMAGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY COULD FLOOD THE INTERNET, FOUNDATION WARNS
Images of child sexual abuse already are rife on the dark web and the problem could explode now that AI has the power to create deepfake images, the U.K.’s Internet Watch Foundation has warned.
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AI “GUARDRAILS” WEAKER THAN THOUGHT, STUDY FINDS
In developing their artificial intelligence systems, Google, OpenAI, and other creators installed so-called guardrails that would keep their AIs from disseminating hate speech or disinformation and committing similarly unacceptable acts.
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OPEN SOURCE OR CLOSED? THE AI DEBATE HEATS UP.
The Allen Institute for AI is building its own AI as an alternative to that of OpenAI or Google.
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GET READY FOR THE TERM “AI DENIER”
We’re hurtling toward a future where political representatives, as well as average citizens, will be subjected to ridicule and pressure when they espouse policies or opinions that run counter to an “AI consensus.”
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SOCIETY IS UNPREPARED FOR SPEED OF AI TRANSITION, EXPERTS SAY
By 2030, “AI will do 80 percent of 80 percent of all jobs we know of today,” renowned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said last week at the Tech Live conference, sponsored by The Wall Street Journal.
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EIGHT MORE COMPANIES PLEDGE AI SAFETY
Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI have promised to actively promote AI systems that are secure against hackers, safe for users, that identify their creations as products of AI instead of people, and that continually seek and weed out biases and other socially harmful elements.
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AI WILL IMPROVE JOBS MORE THAN IT KILLS THEM, STUDY SAYS
AI is more likely to improve the quality of jobs exposed to it than to erase positions en masse, according to an August study by the International Labor Organization (ILO).