THIS MONTH’S BEST READS
You Are Now Remotely Controlled
We thought that we search Google, but now we understand that Google searches us. We assumed that we use social media to connect, but we learned that connection is how social media uses us. We barely questioned why our new TV or mattress had a privacy policy, but we’ve begun to understand that “privacy” policies are actually surveillance policies.
Autonomous weapons pose ethical, practical challenge to DoD
Military brass express worry about the prospect of autonomous weapons, robotic platforms that make their own decisions about when and where to shoot. Robert Marks, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute, said such weapons do come with practical and ethical challenges but recommends continued development
Blackbox welfare fraud detection system breaches human rights, Dutch court rules
An algorithmic risk scoring system deployed by the Dutch state to try to predict the likelihood that social security claimants will commit benefits or tax fraud is a breach of human rights law, a court in the Netherlands has ruled.
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes.
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes. Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint.
Does AI threaten digital human rights in the global south?
The continuous penetration of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies into everyday human dealings comes with a high risk of interfering with basic human rights.
