Just to be clear, AI misbehavior is noticed only after the action is taken. (Oops, we didn’t mean to nuke New York.)
Austin: AI Is Crucial for Military, but Commanders Will Pull the Plug on Misbehaving Systems
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday spelled out the Pentagon's plan for using artificial intelligence, or AI, to deter or fight wars -- but pledged that the military will fix or pull the plug on any system that gets out of line.
"We're going to immediately adjust, improve or even disable AI systems that aren’t behaving the way that we intend," Austin said in a speech at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence's summit on global emerging technology in Washington, D.C.
New player, new ideas?
https://www.databreaches.net/ohio-introduces-data-privacy-legislation/
Ohio Introduces Data Privacy Legislation
Kurt R. Hunt and Gregory A. Tapocsi of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP write:
On July 13, 2021, Ohio Lieutenant Governor John Husted announced the introduction of the Ohio Personal Privacy Act (OPPA), a comprehensive privacy framework following in the footsteps of recent legislative enactments in California (the CCPA as modified by the CPRA), Virginia (the CDPA), and Colorado (the Colorado Privacy Act).
The Ohio Personal Privacy Act generally resembles the privacy laws enacted in California, Virginia, and Colorado, but it more closely aligns with the Virginia CDPA in regards to structure, approach, and language.
Read more on The National Law Review.
[From the article:
Of specific importance for online advertising, the OPPA defines "personal data" as “any information that relates to an identified or identifiable consumer processed by a business for a commercial purpose.” The OPPA then defines “commercial purpose” as “the processing of information for the purpose of obtaining any form of consideration” from either “the person that is the subject of such information” or “any third party.”
How did “black box” software become acceptable?
A secret algorithm is transforming DNA evidence. This defendant could be the first to scrutinize it.
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https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1835&context=nlj
SECRET ALGORITHMS, IP RIGHTS, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
The secrecy surrounding the algorithms that play a central role in American life today is proving to have alarming effects. Judges and juries are convicting defendants based on secret evidence. Major advertisers like Facebook are discriminating against minorities seeking housing. And Russians may very well be hacking our voting machines to change election outcomes. The algorithm secrecy underlying these results obscures whether such legal outcomes are actually accurate and fair or whether they were based on faulty evidence, affected by bias, or manipulated by outside influences. These are just a handful of the public-interest perils of algorithm secrecy. This Article explains that the pervasive secrecy surrounding algorithms is not entirely by accident. The Supreme Court’s recent overhaul of intellectual property (IP) law has driven algorithm developers toward secrecy. By limiting patent protection for software, the Court’s new IP regime pushes developers away from the required disclosure of patent law and toward the obscurity of trade secret law. In doing so, the new regime neglects to take into account the many negative effects that this heightened secrecy has on the public interest. Accuracy, fairness, and good policy require a more careful consideration of the tradeoffs between secrecy and transparency. This includes not only exploring how to minimize these swelling public-interest concerns but also reexamining the Court’s new IP rules with these negative effects in mind.
The problem that I see is convincing anyone that your AI is ethical. Do we need an Underwriters Laboratory for the Internet age?
Building ethical A.I. products can put businesses at a competitive advantage
Making sure that AI-driven services and products are ethical and can be trusted could become a competitive strength for businesses, experts said Wednesday.
… others have pointed out that even in its current, narrow capabilities, AI raises a series of ethical questions — such as whether the data fed into AI programs are without bias, and whether AI can be held accountable if something goes wrong.
To build trusted AI systems, there needs to be cooperation among countries and various stakeholders, according to Wonki Min, a former vice minister at South Korea’s science and technology ministry, who spearheaded the country’s national AI strategy.
That means working together with neighboring countries as well as industry experts, academics, and everyday people who use those technologies, Min said during a panel discussion about AI governance at the Asia Tech x Singapore conference.
This could mean even dumber devices (i.e. much cheaper) that work like high-end desktop computers.
https://www.androidauthority.com/microsoft-windows-365-1644399/
Microsoft drops Windows 365, a cloud-based OS you can run on basically anything
We’ve all heard it a million times: the future of computing is in the cloud. While we’ve seen plenty of cloud services deliver on this promise, we’ve yet to see what we’ve always expected: a cloud-based version of Windows.
However, today, Microsoft formally announced that its cloud-based Windows would officially land as Windows 365 on August 2, 2021 (via PC World ).
Unfortunately, Microsoft is keeping the service locked to businesses for the moment. Business owners will have the option to pay a monthly per-user fee, allowing employees to access a virtual version of Windows. Employees could access this from all manners of devices, including low-powered laptops, tablets, and even phones.
Perhaps I too should take up yoga.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-07-15
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