#Ethics
Last was a packed event on trust and the #ethics of #AI at the University of Toronto. I highly recommend the entire event, but I particularly liked the talk by @jud1ths1mon on whether we can (or should) trust AI and the talk by Justin Biddle on organizational perspectives on trust and values in AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtldG-ZM4s (3/3) #AIEthics
Interested in #Social #AR at #wwdc23?
There are #ethics issues.
Here's the criticism of "anti-social" #AR glasses from me,
@anthropunk
and
@catherineflick
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2021.100010
P.S. I'm seeking work. You might want someone on your team who thinks about these things!
Trump Made Over $82 Million From His Businesses in Scotland, Ireland While President
The former Republican president's repeated promotion of his properties to the media and other world leaders amounted to "diplomatic malpractice," one ethics official said.
He embroiled himself in what one watchdog group called "extraordinary conflicts of interest" stemming from his frequent trips to his properties in the two countries while he was in office.
@athinkinganarchist @MnemosyneSinger Oh, I know this one! It's the trolley problem.
Perfect exercise for people who think that every #ethics problem has a simple, obvious, black and white answer. I mean it should be obvious, but in other, more complex situations, deciding where to pull the lever is not so straightforward.
THIS IS WHY indecisive people have such a hard time with choices, BTW. Every option can feel like a crisis in the making.
Going back to Seneca's work On Anger in the Sadler's Lectures podcast, and now moving into book 3 of the work with this episode about the company we keep and their effects upon our character
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/seneca-on-anger-book-3-choosing-companions-to-avoid-anger
#Seneca #Podcast #Anger #Company #Companions #Lifestyle #Ethics
"The Supreme Court Is Corrupt Because It’s Conservative"
https://newrepublic.com/article/173228/supreme-court-corrupt-its-conservative #GOP #SCOTUS #ethics #scandal #corruption
"It isn’t a coincidence. The court is corrupt, both judicially and ethically, because of the extreme ideology six of its justices serve."
📖 #Today's #meditation :
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Each time we betray our conscience, we strangle an angel.
And, yet, it's not certain we are allotted an infinite supply of winged pardons.
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Read our interview with computer scientist Alessandro Wollek and ethics researcher Theresa Willem to find out how to make AI diagnostic recommendations in radiology more transparent.
#AI #radiology #ComputerScience #ethics
📷C. Lerch
https://go.tum.de/805603
Maailman ympäristöpäivää näemmä vietetään tänään, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Environment_Day, ja 2023 teemana on muovisaaste, https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/.
Oheen sopinee linkki SEP-entryyn ympäristöetiikasta, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/. Juureltaan täysi-ikäinen ja päivitetty 2021, mutta kehystänee edelleen kivasti lukuisine SEP-hyperlinkkeineen ja lisukkeineen.
#WED #ympäristö #muovisaaste #environment #ethics #philosophy
Even the #FDA is refusing to comment on why it approved human clinical trials for Elon Musk's #Neuralink. Just unfathomable.
Bravo to #TheGuardian for interviewing #neuroscience ethicists. This approval from the FDA is so, so inappropriate. And people wonder why I have lost hope in humankind.
Every week, we highlight one #new #ebook from our collection. 📕🔦 This week’s pick is:
"#Autonomous #Vehicle #Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond" 🚦🚗 by Ryan Jenkins, David Cerný, Tomás Hríbek.
Read the e-book: https://academic-oup-com.proxy-ub.rug.nl/book/44058
What could it possibly mean to join #ethics and #nature?
Example:
To find an answer to the question „how do we want to live?“, we had not only to ask humans, but also animals, plants, rivers and seas. And they had to ask us. That latter point is as crucial as the first. They are inseparable.
The constituent assembly would be one of a multitude of persons, who may have only one thing in common: a „how“.
"The so-called #RightsOfNature movement, which originated in the United States some 50 years ago, has gained traction in recent years thanks to growing attention to the importance of protecting #nature as part of combating #climatechange and #biodiversity loss
A growing number of countries have laws granting #ecosystems legal #rights, and court rulings in India and Colombia have recognized such rights and stressed the government’s duty to protect it"
@philosophy #ethics https://www.politico.eu/article/right-to-exist-conservationist-campaign-give-nature-legal-status/
The secret push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease
(sigh)
“Science matters. We have to be able to depend on science,” [McGarity]* said. “When it is perverted, when it is manipulated, then we get bad results. And one result is that pesticides that cause terrible things like Parkinson’s remain on the market.”
*Thomas McGarity, former EPA legal adviser, co-authored the 2008 book titled ‘Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research’.
#Pesticides #WeedKiller #Science #Ethics #Parkinsons #Syngenta
Oprah should feel deep shame for giving so many unethical quacks a platform.
"Dr. Phil asked if he regrets how he handled interview with Shelley Duvall"
https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2023/06/03/dr-phil-show-shelley-duvall-interview-regret-sot-wallace-contd-wtcw-vpx.cnn
Hey, #ClarenceThomas, this is what #ethics look like. You seem to have no clue, so this judge did you a solid by recusing himself because a cousin had 30 shares of Disney stock as an example.
Please boost this toot as my direct connections on Mastodon are biased (in a good way).
Data (fact). #Greenhouse Gas #emissions keep on rising. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions
Question.
Do you think about & make plans that result in fewer greenhouse gases being emitted? For example, having a #holiday in your own country, rather than abroad. Using the #train rather than the #car . Eating no or less #meat .
#mastodon #fediverse #sustainable #activites #travel #food #health #ethics #future #democracy #justice
A professor accused his class of using ChatGPT, putting diplomas in jeopardy by #WashingtonPost #GiftLink https://wapo.st/3N9Ogtw
Recommendation systems are useful, but sometimes we just want to discover new things by ourselves. In this article I present 6 alternatives to "the algorithm".
https://blog.ddavo.me/posts/death-to-the-algorithm
#algorithm #youtube #radio #ethics #blog #recommendersystems #AI #datagovernance
📖 #Today's #meditation :
🔥 Hell is being trapped in the vicious cycle of our vices🔥
https://www.dailywisdomtexts.com/yahia_lababidi
#poetry #ethics #WritingCommunity #spirituality #SilentSunday #Sunday
The FSF stands tall and proud, with unwavering dedication to the ethical imperative that users deserve to control their computing and software. They inspire the world to fight for technology to serve the people, not the other way around. https://www.fsf.org/about/ #FreeSoftware #Ethics #SoftwareFreedom
“You can’t have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you’re not going to talk about #ethics and #AI”. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test
The Rhodes Center Podcast: #Nazi #Billionaires, Capitalist #Ethics, and Other Notable Contradictions:
Next was a powerful talk by Joan Donovan on #ethics and #misinformation at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Donovan takes us on a grand tour of disinformation, the dark corners of the internet, and the implications for policy and practitioners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdSMzVEKIpk (4/6)
Greetings!
Who regulates the regulators? Who regulates the #Mastodon admin? The answer, generally, is no one! They can decide to delete your account, without a warning, at a whim (e.g. if they're in a bad mood, etc) If the admin suspends (deletes) your account, that means you can’t move your account to another instance (you have to start a new one). Account suspension prevents you from transferring the "followers" list. That list could be your friends, colleagues, lover, whistle-blower, you name it.
Effectively, there is zero accountability for Mastodon servers! So, when you read posts that say it doesn't matter what Mastodon server you join, that’s misinformation! Ideally, you’d know and trust the admin personally - that’s the most secure way to protect your data (but, not usually practical). Now if you complain, many admins will say, to paraphrase “You can always run your own server!”. Like they think everyone has the time and resources to do so (it’s just their way of avoiding the problems associated with the network)
My previous account was "suspended", without warning and with no written reason given, by the admin of climate justice social (the irony) https://climatejustice.social/@empiricism . I just received an email that said “Account suspended. You can no longer use your account, and your profile and other data are no longer accessible. You can still login to request a backup of your data until the data is fully removed in about 30 days, but we will retain some basic data to prevent you from evading the suspension”
But, as mentioned. You can’t transfer your followers list (effectively, unless you have copied all the followers' addresses – the admin has deleted them!)
I assume the account deletion was because I'd made an accusation public (a private message from the admin), regarding the unfair conduct of ecoevo.social and climatejustice.social admin (they prefer to do their account warnings, etc, behind the scenes. i.e., no public accountability for their decisions). I posted publicly a link to a conversation I had with another person, in which I said that the OP was being prejudiced. In my public post, I linked to the conversation (made it public) that I was being warned of (by the admin). I asked people (the public on Mastodon) what do they think about the conversation? But, before I received any replies, the account was suspended (deleted).
I've asked this before on Mastodon without receiving any reasonable answer. How can anyone trust Mastodon if people can't backup up their own followers' list? There is no agency in the current system. A server could crash, the owner may just decide to close it or run out of money to finance it, etc.
So, this is a security flaw that should be addressed. The only reason I can think of why this security flaw isn’t been addressed (openly talked about with the seriousness it deserves) is that the server owners, don't believe it’s in their interest. However, evidently, it’s in the Mastodon community's interest to have a system in which they can easily back up the follower's list and have some democratic accountability from the admin. Fundamentally, it should not be up to the servers admin to delete a person's followers list (not even Twitter, Facebook, etc, would do that without any warning! Well, maybe they would, I haven’t used those networks in years)
What methods can a user of the #mastodon network use to back up the "followers" list? (since the software developers seem to be against it) The last time I asked this, the reply I received, I assume from an admin was to quote "You can download a copy of your follows list". Evidently, intentionally tried to avoid the question I was asking because I stated the “followers” list.
So, can Mastodon be a better alternative to #Twitter, etc? or is this just lip service? Because business as usual is the money controlling the general flow of information! (& that’s a form of corruption).
For the Fediverse to be decentralized, people will be able to connect to the network without any “middlemen” (that’s a given). So, can we have an adult discussion about what’s best for a social media network? Without it being monopolized and parasitized by the age-old corruption of social power (e.g. money). I doubt it, but…..
#fediverse #corruption or #justice #democracy #accountability #software #technology #climate #sustainability #science #computing #psychology #SocialPsychology #ethics #business #money #AntiRacism #ClimateJustice #twitter #corporations #DarkMoney
I’m glad these douchebag #California #lawyers have been exposed. #lawyer #lawfedi #legal #ethics #misogyny #racism
https://nypost.com/2023/06/03/woke-la-firm-routinely-used-vile-language-to-refer-to-women-poc/
#MotherJones #Ethics #Mastodon
An email that I sent to Monika Bauerlein, CEO of Mother Jones. Email address: newsletters@motherjones.com. I urge you to do the same, especially if you are a donor or subscriber to Mother Jones.
"Please consider getting Mother Jones off of Facebook and Twitter—they both support Fascist, anti-democratic, over-the-top capitalistic movements. And both social media companies are monopolies that use unethical business practices to wield power."...
(1/2)
The tortures of the Spanish Inquisition hold dark lessons for our time - “…the Inquisition is instructive because it shows that when state power merges with religious power, authorities can impose their mandate by force, imagining that cruelty has a divine endorsement.” #torture #ethics #morality #religion https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/07/20/the-tortures-of-the-spanish-inquisition-hold-dark-lessons-for-our-time/
@humansriseup @steven
(2/2) Re gold: as an aside, yes it's a store of value, but engineer #HassMcCook explains the difference between bitcoin and gold #mining from a #sustainability and #ethics perspective in the following video:
Two I2P (invidious type) links:
http://tube.i2p/watch?v=vnT0d7RUh2Q
http://ytmous.i2p/w/vnT0d7RUh2Q
France’s most feared ethics body should inspire an EU parallel, says François Hollande
France’s most feared ethics body should inspire an EU parallel, says François Hollande.
The HATVP is one of the most powerful and scrutinised institutions in France, as it played a key role in the fall of ex-prime minister François Fillon.
The regulatory agency was created following Hollande’s budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac’s resignation over allegations that he had €600,000 in a secret off-shore bank account.
#GoodListen @ShannonVallor presenting via Monash Data Futures Institute on assessing historical and existing moral framings and bootstrapping moral virtues with technomoral virtues.
Continuing on with Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Seneca's work On Shortness of Life, here's one looking at his discussion of the "three times" & what they mean for us
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/seneca-on-the-shortness-of-life-past-present-and-future
#Podcast #Seneca #Time #Temporality #Philosophy #Stoicism #Life #Memory #Ethics
"#AI – is Skynet here already?
... having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation."
Epictetus tells us in Enchiridion ch. 17: Remember that you are an actor in a play, the character of which is determined by the playwright". Here's my short commentary on that chapter, discussing how and why to play our roles well!
https://medium.com/practical-rationality/chapter-17-of-epictetus-enchiridion-explained-520677b78ecd
#Epictetus #Stoicism #Commentary #Role #Play #Ethics
Chinese students say detector tools mistakenly flag original writing as AI-generated text
Amazon to pay $38 million settlement over allegations of hoarding children's data
My historian colleague Tereza Valny has written a helpful 'blog on teaching topics involving sexual and gender-based violence:
#histodons #history #Criminology #pedagogy #ethics #atrocity
TODAY at 1:00 p.m. ET (6/1): To kick off TNR Live’s Supreme Court Watch series, @fordm sits down with @SenWhitehouse to discuss #SCOTUS #ethics. There’s still time to RSVP: https://trib.al/Xugvhqb #press
How we collect information matters as does how we analyze, share, and build upon it.
When people voluntarily give us data, they are giving us their trust.
#Data #DataScience #Ethics #SocialJustice #Equality
https://www.juliaferraioli.com/blog/2023/influential-articles-may/
The Neuroethics Essay Contest for students and trainees is open for submissions! Discuss any topic in #neuroethics,
addressing a problem at the intersection of
the #mind and #brainsciences, #ethics, and #law. Authors are
encouraged to take creative approaches with their essays
or videos. For guidelines and prize details, visit: https://neuroethicsessaycontest.com/call/. Deadline is July 7
And thank you @mizlemon for the thoughtful comments. 💜
"We can’t wait for the tech industry to self-regulate or lawmakers to figure out how to keep our customers safe. It’s time for the financial industry to lead on AI ethics and education. It’s our responsibility to ensure that we are ready to protect our organisations and our customers from the looming tsunami of AI-powered financial fraud and misinformation.”
@helenczerski Thanks for the link! Geminoid sends shivers down my spine and I spontaneously have to think about whether we have already applied #Asimov 's Laws of #Robotics globally, or whether these people are once again tinkering before thinking about #ethics?
#automation #robots #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
There is a concept in psychology called the "finite pool of worry" ...
This video essay on how #color is deployed deliberately throughout #BetterCallSaul to frame an ethical and thematic debate on the merits of legality vs. criminality BLEW MY MIND.
It seems like we have entered the "Letters of AI" stage.
Letters, letters everywhere, nor any words to think.
We need automated DMs about every server restriction which affects any of our followed accounts. Like, "Server X blocked server Y so your communication with your contact @someone@somewhere is now restricted"
Without this feature, no one can feel safe about why their followed people are silent. @Gargron this is basic decency, please consider implementing this.
The #Supreme #Court was #enabling #corruption well before the Clarence Thomas scandal
The court’s own #ethics have come under renewed scrutiny lately thanks to revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas, among others.
What’s less widely appreciated is the court’s accumulating record of making political corruption easier to engage in and harder to prosecute.
I mean, any such list that is signed by Sam Altman is a fraud. How bold is that to realease a system and then warn the world about its risks? Just take it down, and the risk is gone!
But the real reason behind that move is of course the other fraud: that we deal with "artificial intelligence". We do not.
We deal with the insidious intelligence of business people who know that fraud is a money machine.
Why do all these Bostromians not see the obvious solution to their anxiety: No #AI ?
Because that might threaten *their* jobs?
And why do they consistently forget to add the #climatecrisis to their list of extinction risks?
#llm #ml #ethics #politics #ideology #bostrom #longtermism #capitalism
#Design #Techniques
Avoiding dark patterns in web design · Ethical alternatives to deceptive patterns benefit everyone in the end https://ilo.im/1369ct
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#UserManipulation #DarkPatterns #DeceptiveDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignPatterns #Ethics #Trust #Conversion
Abrasive Working Practices:
‘#IETF working groups are characterized by frank exchanges and robust conversations. […] #Confrontation is a test, a way to guarantee high-quality contributions.’
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in #LoudMen: https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf by Dr. Corinne #CathSpeth @C__CS #governance #networkPolitics #standards #excellence #internet #internetGovernance #anthropology #sociology #tech #neutrality #STS #infrastructure #techCulture #engineering #ethics @ethics #masculinity #reputation #workPlace #workCulture
"Procedural #Openness as a Distraction":
- Civil society participants want to make use of access and opportunities provided by the IETF’s procedural openness.
- "Their presence can confer unfounded #legitimacy on #IETF #processes. If civil society is in the room where decisions are made but does not have a voice that can match that of industry, the sheer fact of their participation in debates can function as a rubber stamp."
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@C__CS #governance #standards #tech #neutrality #ethics @ethics
#Reading the 'Private Writings of Mother Teresa' - Come Be My Light - & thought to share these lines about pride, humility & humiliation…
Courts need a tool to fact check all the affidavits.
Eugene Volokh. May 27, 2023. A Lawyer's Filing "Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases"—Thanks, #ChatGPT? Reason. https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/27/a-lawyers-filing-is-replete-with-citations-to-non-existent-cases-thanks-chatgpt/
*ugh* Not this. NEDA has fired all 6 staffers who train volunteers to help people with eating disorders and wants to replace them with a chatbot.
Anyone get the distinct impression that OpenAI and co haven't read / understood things like this?
https://www.montrealdeclaration-responsibleai.com/the-declaration
I have, in the past, described this book as the Whitechapel and Spiritbox of #literature. You'll find a have a very unconventional faith in #Jesus through this text, but most are going to assume I worship #Satan after reading it.
It's too in support of #LGBTQ rights, #antiracism, and #antifascism. It's also got some sexy bits about #ethics in the SW industry that will always seem demonic to them.
I confess the worst things I've ever done in this book.
https://jamilagebara.wixsite.com/jamgebaraisthedevil/about-5-1
One final update to this thread:
I reached out to Charity Right to ask them why they decided to use AI-generated images in their ad campaigns and if they had considered clearly tagging the images as "AI generated".
Today they posted a blog post with their answers. You can read it here https://www.charityright.org.uk/blog/post/AI%20vs%20Team:%20A%20Deep%20Dive%20into%20Whose%20Photography%20Works%20Best #Ethics #AIEthics #AI
This weeks #FoodForThought
Animals have some legal rights. In some places using animals in lab experiments that may cause harm or death is now banned. You may also serve jail time if you harm or kill someones 4 legged family member.
As Autonomous learning #AI and robots become more commonplace in modern societies, should they have some rights as well?
Thoughts? #JoinIn
https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/news/stories/2023/may/robots-and-rights.html
#education #science #engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #ethics #LifelongLearning
When a company’s CEO states they can’t operate if they have to follow ethics and laws, then that’s a pretty good sign said company shouldn’t operate. Period.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating
Virtual registration is still open for the 9th Annual #BRAINInitiative Meeting (June 12-13)! https://lnkd.in/eMcXbHv3
This year's plenary sessions are:
Nita Farahany, J.D., Ph.D., on the legal & ethical implications associated with advanced technology & AI.
Sameer Sheth, M.D., Ph.D., on
on psychiatric neuromodulation: pushing the limits of personalization.
Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., on the neural circuitry responsible for variations in animal behaviors.
What all this told Timnit Gebru, she says, is that big tech is consumed by a drive to develop AI and “you don’t want someone like me who’s going to get in your way. I think it made it really clear that unless there is external pressure to do something different, companies are not just going to self-regulate. We need regulation and we need something better than just a profit motive.”
#Intro: Opted to come back to #Mastodon after some time away. I will mostly be following hashtags on #climate, #climatejustice, #climatechange, #climatecrisis.
I will also be posting new posts from #ScienceFiction and #Ethics, https://www.scifi.global/, and follow #StarTrek, #Babylon5, #TheOrville, & #BattlestarGalactica.
I will also post my mostly daily #playlists from https://www.minorkey.net/, #classicalmusic, #jazz, etc.
Random #science articles will follow.
It's #AI day @STAT's #healthtech desk!
If you're thinking "man, I guess I gotta start paying attention to the AI thing," we've got you covered. A 🧵:
First, you asked, we answered:
How can I avoid AI? How error-prone is it? And more Qs:
https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/23/chatgpt-questions-health-care-patients-artificial-intelligence/
#healthcare #medicine #artificialintelligence #GPT #GPT4 #chatGPT #dataprivacy #ethics #bias
'“That conversation ascribes agency to a tool rather than the humans building the tool,” she says. “That means you can aggregate responsibility: ‘It’s not me that’s the problem. It’s the tool. It’s super-powerful. We don’t know what it’s going to do.’ Well, no – it’s you that’s the problem. You’re building something with certain characteristics for your profit.”"
- Timnit Gebru
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases
Some morality-deficient threat actor with LockBit hit Diaspora Community Services in New York, a non-profit that provides services including healthcare access, residential services to support independent living transition, harm reduction, #HIV and Hep-C testing, and support for sexual assault victims.
90% of their revenue is from federal and city grants and Medicaid.
And LockBit attacked them and demands a $300k ransom?
#ransomware #databreach #infosec #nonprofit #cybersecurity #ethics #morals
There is no such thing as ethical Big Tech.
EdTechSR Ep 293 AI’s Ethical Implications
https://edtechsr.com/2023/05/21/edtechsr-ep-293-ais-ethical-implications/
@neif & @wfryer discuss #edtechSR #edtech #MediaLit #AI #Ethics #Education #TechNews #Cybersecurity #RemoteWork #AIinEducation #DataPrivacy #GeekOfTheWeek
Danielle Smith violated conflict of interest rule: ethics commissioner | Ottawa Citizen https://bit.ly/3OveNCW #ableg #DanielleSmith #Ethics #UCP #AlbertaElection #abpoli @cdnpoli
"Coercion-Resistant Design: or some politics and an eleven-point technical plan for how not to be governed", a 2016 programmatic article by
Eleanor #Saitta @dymaxion: https://dymaxion.org/essays/coercionresistantdesign.html #dev #softwareDevelopment #softwareDesign #devGovernance #security #ethics #surveillance #resistance
The famous "veil of ignorance" idea proposes that when you can't consider what you would gain or lose from a decision, you will be more incentivized to consider fairness.
Sure enough, 5 experiments found that a veil of ignorance decision environment increased "preference[s] for a[n] #AI assistant to prioritize the worst-off".
This wasn't well explained by politics or the type of game use to elicit the decisions.
I have never used an LLM or “AI" to write anything, and I will never use LLMs to write anything, even the most boring emails
I also promise to do whatever I can to sabotage LLMs and AI whenever possible
I’ll delete this if/when I ever change my mind
Love this footer found on @jayispainting@mastodon.art ’s Wordpress site. Sad that it has become necessary to explicitly state such things. Copyright is copyright, and dude tech bros in machine learning (misguidedly called AI) are of course ethics free… #Art #MachineLearning #ML #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Ethics #Copyright
#Alberta Ethics Commissioner rules Danielle Smith interfered in justice system
"Alberta Premier Danielle Smith interfered in the #justice system in a way that is a “threat to democracy,” according to the provincial #Ethics Commissioner, adding another layer of controversy to the already troubled United Conservative Party election campaign." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-ethics-commissioner-rules-danielle-smith-interfered-in-justice/
In the unsurprising news category:
Yet another survey finds that public confidence in the US Supreme Court is at the lowest point in 50 years, after the Supremes' legislation-from-the-bench abortion ruling with Dobbs.
The General Social Survey finds only 18% of Americans saying they have a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court.
#SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics #democracy #Republicans
https://apnorc.org/projects/public-confidence-in-the-u-s-supreme-court-is-at-its-lowest-since-1973/
#GamersNexus with one of the strongest #ethics statements in tech YouTube and tech journalism.
Probably not the greatest for #Giuliani if these allegations have merit. Complaint alleges that Rudy Giuliani was "selling" pardons for $2,000,000. Don't need to refer to any #ethics rules to know that's bad, if true. The below image is taken from the verified complaint, viewable here: https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/650033_2023_Noelle_Dunphy_v_Rudolph_W_Giuliani_et_al_COMPLAINT_10.pdf
SCOTUS Justice #ElenaKagan turns down #free #bagels to avoid #ethics #scandal as #ClarenceThomas rides around on #yachts. "women who attended high school w Kagan wanted to send her bagels, lox from legendary bakery on Lower East Side. But the justice put kibosh on bagel delivery, due to her concerns about Court’s ethics rules." So there is a measure for #legalethics #judcial #conduct and #SCOTUS. Yes the corruption has no end with #ClarenceThomas but not Kagan https://www.queerty.com/elena-kagan-turns-down-free-bagels-to-avoid-ethics-scandal-as-clarence-thomas-rides-on-private-jets-20230511
Invoking the child's right to freedom of religion to justify genital cutting is illogical. In reality it is an argument for the parents to enforce the parent's religion on an unconsenting, uninformed child, violating the child's freedom of religion and right to bodily integrity.
#ReligiousFreedom #Consent #ChildrensRights #Ethics #Bioethics #Finland #Circumcision #EndGenitalCutting #Autonomy
“Non-medical male circumcision - what about children’s rights?” Dr. Suvianna Hakalehto, University of Helsinki
#Autonomy #Dignity #Video #Ethics #Rights #Egalitarianism #Children #ChildrensRights #EndGenitalCutting
Good to see @timnitGebru in The Globe and Mail. #AI #ethics
may 12 (weekly essay)
The Price | A week of accountability brings needed cheer in a gloomy world, lord knows we need it.
Tucker and the 1st. I think our legal and cultural attitudes need to address lying that is getting people killed.
Also Thomas is the product of a deliberate process to develop and install corrupt judges. I hope this is a topic within the legal profession because its existence is madness.
#Design #Explorations
How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed · Let’s try to unsubscribe from 16 well-known digital services! https://ilo.im/12q49w
“A person shouldn’t have to be a UX designer to navigate the web just to avoid dark patterns, confusion and manipulation. That isn’t a fair web.” — Caroline Sinders
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#Business #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DeceptiveDesign #DarkPatterns #DesignPatterns #Services #Subscriptions #Regulations #Ethics
#Usa #military aid to #Israel is unconditional. It doesn’t matter what Israel does with the #money.
They can & do demolish #Palestinian civilian homes, bomb #schools or #hospitals or #press offices & kill #journalists … all on the American taxpayers’ dime.
— Abdallah Fayyad, Boston Globe
#palestine #humanrights #news #politics #ethics #corruption #War #Crime #genocide #apartheid
What kind of ethics do front-end developers need? 👉 https://hidde.blog/what-kind-of-ethics-do-front-end-developers-need/ #ethics #webdev #webdevelopment
@CuriousScutter well, one can only do #ethics if one knew it and taught it.
#ChatGPT is just a shitty version of #CleverBot.
If you want a real AI, check out @Hoppel...
"And then there is Justice Neil Gorsuch, who managed to unload a property he owned with two other partners for nearly $2 million after he became the Leonard Leo/Donald Trump consortium’s first appointee to the Supreme Court. The buyer was the managing partner of a law firm that regularly appears before the Supreme Court."
#SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics #Neil Gorsuch
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