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The Next Frontier of Police Surveillance Is Drones
"“Axon also makes tasers, so you could imagine drones being equipped with tasers or with tear gas, rubber bullets, and other weaponry,” said Harlan Yu, the…
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Google Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance
"“While Google’s statement rejects building AI systems for information gathering and surveillance that violates internationally accepted norms, we are conc…
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Fatal Tesla Autopilot crash driver had hands off wheel: U.S. agency
"The report raised an issue for Tesla vehicles with Autopilot, as well as other vehicles with adaptive cruise control, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assista…
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Tesla fatal crash: 'autopilot' mode sped up car before driver killed, report finds
"The problems with the damaged highway divider do not “absolve Tesla of responsibility”, said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor and exper…
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Google Renounces AI Weapons; Will Still Work With Military
"The principles about surveillance were not specific enough, according to Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School who organized a letter from…
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Google just released a set of ethical principles about how it will use AI technology
"Pichai's pledge regarding weapons was "really strong," Peter Asaro, associate professor of media studies at the New School in New York, told…
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Making Smart Machines Fair
"A first step for the professors is to measure the cultural bias in the standard data sets that many researchers rely on to train their systems. From there…
INTERMEDIÁRIOS DE INTERNET E LIBERDADE DE EXPRESSÃO: O MAPA DA BUSCA DE UM DELICADO EQUILÍBRIO REGULATÓRIO
(Google translated) Visit Dissenso.org for full post. On May 16, the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society has launched an important tool f…
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What's Next: The Future Is Open Source
"“Even if you think Spotify should be making content moderation decisions based on artists’ off-platform conduct, it’s pretty clear that they lack in-house…
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Artificial intelligence debate flares at Google
"“We are calling on Google not to make weapons because Google has a special relationship with the public in virtue of the kind of personal data they are co…
User Agreements Are Betraying You
The user agreement has become a potent symbol of our asymmetric relationship with technology firms. For most of us, it’s our first interaction with a given comp…
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How Facebook Groups Became a Bizarre Bazaar for Elephant Tusks
"Technically, it’s true that the immunities contained in Section 230 don’t exempt tech companies from criminal liability or from their duties to shareholde…