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  • How Americans’ confidence in technology firms has dropped: evidence from the second wave of the American Institutional Confidence poll | Brookings

    June 15, 2023

    As COVID-19 spread and pushed individuals to reorganize their lives around social distancing and personal safety, many people were forced to rely more on technology. Working from home increased dramatically, […]

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  • The EU’s AI Act: A guide to understanding the ambitious plans to regulate artificial intelligence | Euronews

    May 17, 2023

    A European Parliament committee voted to strengthen its legislative proposal as it heads toward a plenary vote in June. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, or AI, has captivated millions […]

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  • The Metaverse, Zuckerberg’s Tech Obsession, Is Officially Dead. ChatGPT Killed It | Business Insider

    May 9, 2023

    The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was […]

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  • There Is No Getting Ahead of Disinformation Without Moving Past It | Lawfare

    May 9, 2023

    I don’t believe in disinformation. And it’s time for democracies to stop focusing on it. I’m not saying there’s no such thing or that it’s not bad. I’m saying something […]

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  • General Purpose AI Poses Serious Risks, Should Not Be Excluded From the EU’s AI Act – Policy Brief | AI Now Institute

    April 20, 2023

    Today, AI experts and scientists led by Amba Kak and Dr. Sarah Myers West (AI Now Institute), Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Timnit Gebru (Distributed AI Research Institute), Maximilian Gahntz […]

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  • AI Desperately Needs Global Oversight | WIRED

    April 13, 2023

    Every time you post a photo, respond on social media, make a website, or possibly even send an email, your data is scraped, stored, and used to train generative AI […]

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  • 2023 Landscape Confronting Tech Power | AI Now Institute

    April 12, 2023

    This report highlights a set of approaches that, in concert, will collectively enable us to confront tech power. Some of these are bold policy reforms that underscore the need for […]

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  • To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health | WIRED

    April 6, 2023

    How is it that public health has delivered on its promise to improve the lives of millions, while failing to resolve theĀ dramatic health disparities of people of color in the […]

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  • Rest of World Labor x Tech Reporting Fellowship | Rest of World

    March 23, 2023

    Rest of World is excited to announce a new opportunity for reporters native to regions outside the West who want to produce a deeply reported body of work on how […]

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  • Language models might be able to self-correct biases—if you ask them | MIT Technology Review

    March 22, 2023

    Large language models are infamous for spewing toxic biases, thanks to the reams of awful human-produced content they get trained on. But if the models are large enough, and humans […]

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