The risks of a privacy failure. (Along with all the others…)

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/embracing-privacy-by-design-as-a-corporate-responsibility/

Embracing Privacy by Design as a Corporate Responsibility

… Advertising companies and their technology partners are increasingly recognising the value of a paradigm shift from data protection as a burdensome obligation to a framework of “privacy by design.” For companies that are taking this route, they see three big results: less costs to adapt to new legislation, growth in consumer confidence and trust, and it runs less risks for a business in case of inevitable mishaps. And the first step to taking this route all stands with the prominence of data.

It’s in my local library…

https://techpolicy.press/your-face-belongs-to-us-a-conversation-with-kashmir-hill/

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Conversation with Kashmir Hill

In 2019, journalist Kashmir Hill had just joined The New York Times when she got a tip about the existence of a company called Clearview AI that claimed it could identify almost anyone with a photo. But the company was hard to contact, and people who knew about it didn’t want to talk. Hill resorted to old fashioned shoe-leather reporting, trying to track down the company and its executives. By January of 2020, the Times was ready to report what she had learned in a piece titled “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It.”

Three years later, Hill has published a book that tells the story of Clearview AI, but with the benefit of three more years of reporting and study on the social, political, and technological forces behind it. It’s called Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy As We Know It, just out from Penguin Random House.

Perspective.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-age-of-uncertainty/

The AI ‘Age of Uncertainty’

… Already, the impact of AI is becoming more discernable in daily life. From AI-generated songs, to haikus written in the style of Shakespeare, to self-driving vehicles, to chatbots that can imitate lost loved ones and AI assistants that help us with work, the technology is beginning to become pervasive.

AI will soon become much more prevalent with the approaching AI tsunami. Wharton School professor Ethan Mollick recently wrote about the results of an experiment on the future of professional work. The experiment centered around two groups of consultants working for the Boston Consultant Group. Each group was given various common tasks. One group was able to use currently available AI to augment their efforts while the other was not.

Mollick reported: “Consultants using AI finished 12.2% more tasks on average, completed tasks 25.1% more quickly, and produced 40% higher quality results than those without.”

Of course, it is possible that problems inherent in large language models (LLM), such as confabulation and bias, may cause this wave to simply dissipate — although this is now appearing unlikely. While the technology is already demonstrating its disruptive potential, it will take several years until we are able to experience the power of the tsunami. Here is a look at what is coming.