For my Ethical hackers.
https://www.wired.com/story/atm-hackers-jackpotting-remote-malware/
ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks
Perspective. Too extreme or the least we must do?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/12/china-industry-manufacturing-cold-war/
In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament
In 2011, then-President Barack Obama attended an intimate dinner in Silicon Valley. At one point, he turned to the man on his left. What would it take, Obama asked Steve Jobs, for Apple to manufacture its iPhones in the United States instead of China? Jobs was unequivocal: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.” Jobs’s prognostication has become almost an article of faith among policymakers and corporate leaders throughout the United States. Yet China’s recent weaponization of supply chains and information networks exposes the grave dangers of the American deindustrialization that Jobs accepted as inevitable.
Since March alone, China has threatened to withhold medical equipment from the United States and Europe during the coronavirus pandemic; launched the biggest cyberattack against Australia in the country’s history; hacked U.S. firms to acquire secrets related to the coronavirus vaccine; and engaged in massive disinformation campaigns on a global scale. China even hacked the Vatican. These incidents reflect the power China wields through its control of supply chains and information hardware. They show the peril of ceding control of vast swaths of the world’s manufacturing to a regime that builds at home, and exports abroad, a model of governance that is fundamentally in conflict with American values and democracies everywhere. And they pale in comparison to what China will have the capacity to do as its confrontation with the United States sharpens.
… The question today is not whether America’s manufacturing jobs can return, but whether America can afford not to bring them back.
Does what you do with it matter?
THE QUIET GROWTH OF RACE-DETECTION SOFTWARE SPARKS CONCERNS OVER BIAS
… In the last few years, companies have started using such race-detection software to understand how certain customers use their products, who looks at their ads, or what people of different racial groups like. Others use the tool to seek different racial features in stock photography collections, typically for ads, or in security, to help narrow down the search for someone in a database
… The field is still developing, and it is an open question how companies, governments and individuals will take advantage of such technology in the future. Use of the software is fraught, as researchers and companies have begun to recognize its potential to drive discrimination, posing challenges to widespread adoption.
From the eBook: An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-51110-4_8
Privacy Issues of AI
This chapter sheds light on how private data is systematically collected, stored and analysed with the help of artificial intelligence. We discuss various forms of persistent surveillance at home and in public spaces. While massive data collection raises considerable ethical concerns, it is also the basis for better performance for AI systems.
Download chapter PDF
What tools does Judge Judy need?
https://www.iacajournal.org/articles/10.36745/ijca.343/print/
Courts and Artificial Intelligence
This article explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in courts of law. AI raises any number of questions for courts and judges. Importantly, what can AI do for the administration of justice, and what does that require? Complexity reduction is at the heart of court processes, irrespective of subject matter. Not all court work is complex custom work and routine processes have different requirements from complex customised work of the courts. It follows, that forms of information technology, including artificial intelligence, are also not the same for all cases. Which form of AI has already proven itself for these different processes? The work of courts and judges is governed by the standards of proper procedure, including Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, so what does this mean for those working with AI? The Council of Europe has developed the Ethical Principles for the use of AI in the administration of justice. Can legal information be made more usable for AI?
My AI suggested this article but doesn’t agree with it.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04520
Montreal AI Ethics Institute's (MAIEI) Submission to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Second Session
This document posits that, at best, a tenuous case can be made for providing AI exclusive IP over their "inventions". Furthermore, IP protections for AI are unlikely to confer the benefit of ensuring regulatory compliance. Rather, IP protections for AI "inventors" present a host of negative externalities and obscures the fact that the genuine inventor, deserving of IP, is the human agent. This document will conclude by recommending strategies for WIPO to bring IP law into the 21st century, enabling it to productively account for AI "inventions".
Perspective. (Interesting interactive graphic)
The coming age of digital reality
The next decade of technological advances — in virtual reality and AI — is poised to move more of human life into the digital realm.
The big picture: Moments of great upheaval are often followed by major technological and social innovations. Prompted in part by the pandemic, the 2020s could see the development of a new reality that captures the best of the analogue and virtual worlds.
What's happening: In a recent report, L'Atelier, a foresight company that is part of the French banking giant BNP Paribas, mapped the development of more than 80 current technologies in an effort to predict how they'll change life by the next decade.
Tools.
Telegram launches one-on-one video calls on iOS and Android
Secure messaging app Telegram has launched an alpha version of one-on-one video calls on both its Android and iOS apps, the company announced, saying 2020 had “highlighted the need for face-to-face communication.” [??? Bob]
… Video calls will have end-to-end-encryption, Telegram’s blog posts states, one of the app’s defining features for its audio calls and texting.
In case you missed one…
https://towardsdatascience.com/top-python-libraries-for-data-science-c226dc74999b
Top Python Libraries for Data Science
… Python has a lot of packages in its arsenal, over 255 thousand, to be exact. The use case of these packages is spread across a huge variety of domains. As we are on the topic of Data Science, we would like to draw your attention to some of the top Python libraries that are widely used by a vast audience, including Data Scientists, Researchers, Analysts, and many others.
Dilbert on automated decision making?
https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-08-16
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