We got Google to drop one contract. And people were fired and pushed out in the process. @NoTechApartheid bravely continues the effort.
POLICY
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AI-Powered Adtech Systems Targeting Civilians: Ethics and Accountability
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The def of "it" is v important here bc what we're seeing IRL is e.g. repurposed adtech systems targeting people (their families, neighbors) for death based on probabilities in e.g. Gaza (see the recent +972 reporting). Space traffic control is fine but not driving AI hype or $
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Search Engines and LLMs Unable to Index Complete Content
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actually worse because now search engines and llms are guaranteed to not index everything
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Tech leader refuses ethical exemption despite wealth
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I made my name and my money, so I can't exempt myself.
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AI Targeting Ethics: Civilian Casualties and Autocratic Risks
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What are you worried autocracies will do, exactly, if "the West" doesn't do it first? Use AI to justify killing the families of probabilistically determined "targets" (determinations that are laughably imprecise)? Us AI to justify 100 civilians killed for every "senior target"?
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Google and DOD ethics governance fail to prevent harmful AI futures
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We argued then that a future like the present depicted in the sickening +972 reporting was in store if we didn't stop. And we were met with arguments that we shouldn't worry, because Google and DOD took ethics and governance seriously.
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Google AI researchers organized against military AI contracting 2017-2018
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Stopping military AI was what me + many AI researchers at Google organized around in 2017-2018, when G started contracting w/DOD. The prob is that corp profits & visions of military domination are more compelling to those making these calls than grounded analyses & moral clarity
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Isle of Man Government Seeks Head of AI Position
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There are so many useful discussions and opportunities already happening in the U. It's amazing to see. Here's one example I saw posted yesterday: It's an opportunity to become the head of AI for the Isle of Man Government
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AI Targeting System Gaza: Probabilistic Bias Ethics Concerns
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AI IDing human targets in Gaza based on probabilistic stereotypes (37K people!). People familiar w/AI know how inaccurate such assessments are. Targets' homes are then bombed at night when they (their family, neighbors, pets) are most likely to be home https://
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is
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Crypto Wars Lost: Surveillance Advertising as AI Foundation
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My @NDSSSymposium keynote is up! On how we lost the crypto wars, why surveillance advertising must be understood as the foundation of "AI", & why the tactics of the past won't serve us in defending privacy today. Text: https://
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