There must be guidance somewhere
that would help avoid these recurring problems!
As
Georgia rolls out new voting machines for 2020, worries about
election security persist
Last month, voters in six Georgia counties cast
ballots for local elections using new touch-screen voting machines
that officials have said will resolve long-standing questions about
the security of the state’s election system.
Richard DeMillo, a professor of computing at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, said he was worried as he visited
polling places in a county north of Atlanta.
DeMillo
said bystanders could easily see the screens from 30 feet away,
presenting serious privacy concerns. In some counties, elections
officials reported
that
programming problems led to delays in checking in voters, and in some
precincts, the machines unexpectedly shut
down and
rebooted.
Georgia
is preparing to roll out 30,000 of the machines in every polling
place for its presidential primary in March, replacing a paperless
electronic voting system that a federal judge declared
insecure
and unreliable.
But election
security experts said the state’s newest voting machines also
remain vulnerable to potential intrusions or malfunctions — and
some view the paper records they produce as insufficient if a
verified audit of the vote is needed.
We’re gonna
need AI Lawyers.
In
the 2020s, human-level A.I. will arrive, and finally pass the Turing
test
The
past decade has seen the rise of remarkably
human personal assistants,
increasing automation in transportation and industrial environments,
and even the alleged
passing of Alan Turing’s famous robot consciousness test.
Such innovations have taken artificial intelligence out labs and into
our hands.
… One
such area to keep on eye on going forward into a new decade will be
partially defined by this question: what
kind of legal status will A.I. be granted as their capabilities and
intelligence continues to scale closer to that of humans? This
is a conversation the archipelago nation Malta started in 2018 when
its leaders proposed that it should prepare to grant or deny
citizenship to A.I.’s just as they would humans.
The
logic behind this being that A.I.’s of the future could have just
as much agency and potential to cause disruption as any other
non-robotic being. Francois Piccione, policy advisor for the Maltese
government, told
Inverse
in
2019
that
not taking such measures would be irresponsible.
… While
the 2020s might not see fully fledged citizenship for A.I.’s,
Inverse predicts that there will be increasing legal scrutiny in
coming years over who is legally responsible over the actions of
A.I., whether it be their owners or the companies designing them.
Instead of citizenship or visas for A.I., this could lead to further
restrictions on the human’s who travel with them and the ways in
which A.I. can be used in different settings.
(Related)
In
the Age of AI
Frontline
recently
produced a fascinating and sobering view on the promise and peril of
AI - not as it may present itself in some imagined future, but as it
is currently being applied today.
“In
the Age of AI”
traces a new information/industrial revolution that will enhance our
lives while disrupting our livelihoods, and is manifesting itself as
a new “arms race” between the USA and China, with pervasive
surveillance as a shred of commonality between the competing AI
ecosystems.
It’s
a couple hours long, but well worth watching if you want to
understand the ripple that is forming and the tsunami that is coming.
Another
cautionary tale.
Artificial
Intelligence Is Rushing Into Patient Care - And Could Raise Risks
AI
systems are not as rigorously tested as other medical devices, and
have already made serious mistakes
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