The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Samy Bengio, who oversaw the ethical AI team prior to a reorganization in February , is leaving to pursue other opportunities, according to Bloomberg. Bengio was a strong advocate of star AI ethics researchers Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, who previously co-led the ethical AI team. His last day will be April 28th.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Google has fired Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of the ethical AI team, after she used an automated script to look through her emails in order to find evidence of discrimination against her coworker Timnit Gebru. Mitchell’s firing comes one day after Google announced a reorganization to its AI teams working on ethics and fairness.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 5, 2024

pic.twitter.com/SxK9twhEby — Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) February 24, 2024 Huang’s statements at the summit not only challenge traditional narratives around the importance of coding but also invite us to reconsider the role of human intelligence and creativity in an AI-dominant future. AI will kill coding.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

If she is hired, though, she’ll bring a good deal of experience — she worked at Google from 2006 to 2019 and has done work around AI ethics since leaving the company. Whittaker accused Google of only caring about the appearance of ethics debate.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Why not turn to the wisdom of artificial intelligence, aka Ask Delphi : an intriguing research project from the Allen Institute for AI that offers answers to ethical dilemmas while demonstrating in wonderfully clear terms why we shouldn’t trust software with questions of morality. Fancy making it worse?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group have announced their departures from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. The search giant fired another AI ethics researcher , Margaret Mitchell, for her involvement in Gebru’s paper shortly thereafter. “We Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Google employees who worked with Timnit Gebru are coming out publicly to dispute claims against the star AI ethics researcher. Ultimately, the leaders of the ethical AI team said they could not meet these conditions and preemptively accepted her resignation. In his statement, Dean said the research team requires two weeks for review.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From my viewpoint in AI governance, the Algorithmic Accountability Act represents a crucial stride toward aligning AI innovation with ethical responsibility. Wyden's full statement before the U.S. Healthcare innovators would also know their work is ethically and socially responsible. "By Here is Sen. RELATED: This U.S.

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Vox

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There are also ethical risks for society at large that go beyond just Neuralink. To my knowledge, they are the only company that is currently planning clinical trials for implantable medical neural interfaces while making public statements about future nonmedical applications of neural implants for cognitive enhancement.

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GeekWire

MAY 4, 2023

We plan to interview artificial intelligence experts, talk with corporate and startup leaders, explore the ethical and practical implications of AI, and get a sense for how it’s impacting work and life everywhere, as viewed from our perspective on business and technology in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Google’s AI leadership came under fire in December when star ethics researcher Timnit Gebru was abruptly fired while working on a paper about the dangers of large language models. Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of the ethical AI team, went to AI chief Jeff Dean with a “litany of concerns,” according to Bloomberg.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2021

The petition asks Khan to restrict herself from any proceedings involving Amazon on the basis of her past statements about the company, including claims that Amazon is a monopoly and should be broken up. The Senate wants the FTC to push back on Amazon, and Khan’s previous statements about the company are a big part of why she got the job.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

In a statement provided when the ban on law enforcement use was first issued, Amazon said it hoped Congress would use the year provided by the moratorium to implement rules surrounding the ethical use of facial recognition technology. Amazon didn’t immediately respond to request for comment about why the ban was being extended.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2020

“I am drawn to companies with bold ideas and that is why I’m excited to sit on Axon’s board,” Brown said in a statement. In addition to the board of directors, Axon consults an independent artificial intelligence ethics committee. She also serves at the board chair for Seattle’s Pacific Science Center.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 18, 2024

Role of Educational Technology Leadership in Shaping Modern Pedagogy Articulating a Clear Technology Vision Planning for Optimal Use of Technology Offering Technological and Infrastructural Support Promoting Professional Development Focused On Technology Integration Collaborating and Communicating Balancing Ethics and Equity III.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

On July 24th, a coalition of nine progressive groups, including Demand Justice, Freedom From Facebook and Google, and Accountable Tech, released a statement calling on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to recuse himself from a case involving Facebook due to his close friendship with the company’s vice president of public policy, Joel Kaplan. “The

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AUGUST 17, 2023

The allegations brought to light by former employee Madison Suop ( SuopOnYoutube ) have ignited a far-reaching discourse that raises profound questions about workplace culture, ethics, and industry standards. Madison Suop’s experiences have sparked an essential discourse about workplace ethics within the tech industry.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

The app would block “unfair,” “master,” “slave,” “injustice,” “ethics,” “diversity,” and “fairness”. Our teams are always thinking about new ways to help employees engage with each other,” Amazon spokesperson Barbara Agrait said in a statement to The Verge.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 12, 2024

Of course, there is an ethical side to this story, too, and honestly, the George Carlin AI fails to pass that test. The ethics and risks of pursuing artificial intelligence Carlin wasn’t just any comedian; he was a master of his craft. Imagine an AI impersonating a human being, especially one as iconic as Carlin.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Christensen in a statement to Recode. Timnit Gebru, a prominent Black AI ethics researcher, was fired from Google in December while writing a paper about the dangers of large language models. In a statement emailed to The Verge , an Amazon spokesperson denied any claims of wrongdoing. “We Pearson and Jeanne M.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

“When workforce planning is done well, these items will be known and can be easily presented as an overlay of strategic plans, current work demands, and third-party commitments through managed services, statements of work, and other agreements,” says West Monroe’s Wright. Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2020

The ethical thing to do as an individual is to walk around with the assumption that you’re infectious and contagious, and that it’s your responsibility to protect the public. Schiffer , an infectious diseases physician and author of the research, in a statement. That doesn’t change at all,” said Dr. Joshua T.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As data science is increasingly incorporated in all facets of our lives, its success is uncovering pressing challenges that call for new theories,” Fazel said in a statement. “We The team will also study the ethical and societal implications of data-driven algorithms, including privacy, unfairness and bias.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2020

We take complete responsibility for the errors in the execution of our vaccine distribution plan,” a Stanford Medicine spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge. Our intent was to develop an ethical and equitable process for distribution of the vaccine. ProPublica has hosted the full letter on DocumentCloud.)

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

The company posted a statement saying that it terminated all the employees involved in September. eBay apologizes to the affected individuals and is sorry that they were subjected to this,” the statement reads. Texts between an unnamed eBay executive and Baugh. eBay does not tolerate this kind of behavior.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Mayer will help the DOJ be “prepared for both the challenges and opportunities that new technologies present,” Garland said in a statement. The individual best fit for the role would be someone with a strong technical understanding of AI, business acumen, leadership skills, communication skills, and ethical and legal knowledge,” she added.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This video, which did not employ AI editing tools nor portrayed President Biden uttering statements he never made, was judged to be evidently altered and thus unlikely to deceive the audience, aligning with Meta’s existing guidelines. What’s the story behind the fake Joe Biden video?

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The absence of official statements added to the collective sense of loss. The ongoing impact : As of the time of the incident, there were no official statements clarifying the situation. Viewer reactions : These unsettling events led viewers to assume that Inquisitor Ghost had taken his own life during the live stream.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We particularly worry about the many SME software companies not used to product legislation – this will be uncharted territory for them,” trade association, DigitalEurope, said in a statement. Non-compliance with the regulations may result in fines ranging from $8 million (€7.5 million) or 1.5% of the turnover to $37.6

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Vox

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As we messaged, I was trying to make sense of what, behind the PR and the charitable donations and the lobbying, Bankman-Fried actually believes about what’s right and what’s wrong — and especially the ethics of what he did and the industry he worked in. Those well-considered ideas about balancing ethical imperatives?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Googles AI ethics guidelines prevent it from working on AI-powered weapons. After Google told employees it would let its Project Maven contract expire, it announced its AI ethics principles , promising that it wouldn’t work on AI-powered weapons or AI surveillance projects that were likely to draw ire from human rights or privacy advocates.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,” Amazon said. “We The company changed its tune in a brief blog post published Wednesday.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Google is investigating artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell, who co-leads the company’s Ethical AI team, and has locked her corporate account, Axios reports. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The news comes a little over a month after another prominent AI ethicist , Timnit Gebru, said she was fired by the company.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2021

Sophos director and ethical hacker Mark Loman tweeted about the attack earlier today, and now reports that affected systems will demand $44,999 to be unlocked. A note on Kaseya’s website implores customers to shut off their VSA servers for now “because one of the first things the attacker does is shutoff administrative access to the VSA.”.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

.” In what it calls an “illegal advertising scheme,” the yet-to-be named defendants are sending “fake text messages” that are “intentionally designed to trick unsuspecting consumers to click on a link using Amazon’s name and offering recipients ‘rewards’ or other ‘gifts,’” the company said in a statement.

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JUNE 12, 2023

i love AI Spongebob pic.twitter.com/2R6jKu6oUp — esper (@WhosEsper) June 7, 2023 The rise in AI chatbot technology such as ChatGPT has sparked a multitude of ethical debates, including whether channels like “Nothing, Forever” and “ai_sponge” infringe upon copyrights. Obviously, not.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Two Google engineers have quit over the treatment of Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of the ethical AI team. In a statement emailed to The Verge , a Google spokesperson said: “We don’t agree with the way April describes her termination, but it’s not appropriate for us to provide a commentary about her claims.”.

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