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As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.
Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social consequences it may cause.
Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
When OpenAI claims to be “developing technologies that empower everyone,” who is included in the term “everyone?” And in what context will this “power” be wielded?
The Online News Act could result in the formation of new agreements between news organizations and digital platform giants, which could give rise to a number of worrying developments.
Rather than seeing artificial intelligence as the cause of new problems, we might better understand AI ethics as bringing attention to old ones.
Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
The numbers are less concerning when viewed in the bigger picture.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
Change management never quite goes according to plan. But it’s hard to figure out if Elon Musk even has a plan.
There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
There’s no evidence that news outlets are worse off because of Google, Facebook and other aggregators. If anything, evidence shows that, overall, news outlets would be in worse shape without them.
Former Twitter security chief alleges in a whistleblower complaint gross security malpractice, with many employees having access to the social media platform’s code as well as user data.
It’s easy to consider the erosion of democratic norms in the U.S. as purely political, but it poses serious risks to the country’s economic order. Is democracy in the gallows?
One Medical provides primary healthcare services to people across the US.
Like the EU and unlike the US, China is trying to rein in the power of big tech companies. Can we learn from these efforts?
Despite its ‘innovator’ status, Apple usually wasn’t the first one to offer groundbreaking new features. But it knew how to adopt existing features in groundbreaking ways.
The EU’s proposed regulations don’t align with existing technology. They’re likely to fail – or to break the internet as we know it.
Frances Haugen, Timnit Gebru and Janneke Parrish are at the forefront of a group of high-profile women calling out big tech. Is there a connection between their gender and their role as whistleblowers?
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate professor of regulation and governance, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow., University of Sydney
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Professor of English Language and Literature; University Research Chair & Founding Director, Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo
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Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication, UWA, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, University of South Australia
