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ETHICS
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AI Misinformation Spreads Rapidly During Spain Wildfires Crisis
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Cuidado!
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 18 août 2025
En momentos críticos, como es el caso de los terribles incendios que están arrasando España, la desinformación corre como la pólvora en redes sociales. Además, la aparición de la ia no ayuda… pic.twitter.com/guvsgNq8KVCuidado! En momentos críticos, como es el caso de los terribles incendios que están arrasando España, la desinformación corre como la pólvora en redes sociales. Además, la aparición de la ia no ayuda…
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AI Panel Discussion at Rotary Club Dubai Event
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يسعدني أن أتحدث غداً كضيف شرف مع نخبة من المتحدثين في حلقة نقاش حماسية بحضور الجمهور بعنوان “تحدي العقول والذكاء الاصطناعي” من تنظيم نادي “روتاري دبي” 🤖💡
— Shadi Dawi (@shadi_dawi) 18 août 2025
Honoured to be joining a distinguished panel of speakers at the Rotary Club Dubai tomorrow at 7:30 PM, hosted at Holiday… pic.twitter.com/4XemBcH1c7يسعدني أن أتحدث غداً كضيف شرف مع نخبة من المتحدثين في حلقة نقاش حماسية بحضور الجمهور بعنوان “تحدي العقول والذكاء الاصطناعي” من تنظيم نادي “روتاري دبي” Honoured to be joining a distinguished panel of speakers at the Rotary Club Dubai tomorrow at 7:30 PM, hosted at Holiday
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LLM Voice Recruiter Outperforms Humans in Customer Service Hiring
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AI in HR: in an experiment with 70,000 applicants in the Philippines, an LLM voice recruiter beat humans in hiring customer service reps, with 12% more offers & 18% more starts. Also better matches (17% higher 1-month retention), less gender discrimination & equal satisfaction.
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Verena Rieser challenges single gold standard for AI alignment
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A truly thought-provoking keynote at #DLI2025 by @verena_rieser ! Her talk, "Whose Gold?", challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a powerful call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for our diverse, and sometimes conflicting, human values. #Indaba2025 #Urunana
→ View original post on X — @shakir_za, 2025-08-18 13:56 UTC
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Building Culturally Adept AI for India
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How do we build AI that truly understands India? Shekar Sivasubramanian, Head-LEHS AI, drops by the #OurOwnDevices podcast by @IndianExpress to discuss exactly this. They cover our work and why building culturally adept AI is key. Listen in:
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AI in Justice: A Decade Later and Still Struggling
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Il y a 10 ans, avec @OlivierBabeau nous proposions dans @LesEchos de confier la Justice à l’Intelligence Artificielle Depuis, la crise de la justice s’est aggravée Et l’IA y est plus indispensable encore Hélas les magistrats maîtrisent mal l’IA et le ministère est nul
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Social Credit System Penalizes 302 People Severely
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These 302 people have just had their social credit score slashed. If you are one of these people, and discover you now can't find work, join clubs, or book plane tickets — remember, you brought this on yourself.
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Knoll’s Law: Media and LLM Information Reliability
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I think this is partly due to Knoll’s law, which we could restate as “everything you read in the newspapers (or from LLMs) is absolutely true, except for the rare story (or chat) of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge (or deep expertise)”.
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Oxford researchers demonstrate AI safety training without output blocking
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Researchers from the University of Oxford, the UK AI Safety Institute, and EleutherAI demonstrate a way to get AI models to avoid learning unsafe knowledge, as an alternative to trying to block them from outputting it post training.