Will a “this is AI” flag be an automatic negative?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-label-ai-generated-images-video-openai-elsewhere-2024-05-09/

TikTok to label AI-generated content from OpenAI and elsewhere

TikTok plans to start labelling images and video uploaded to its video-sharing service that have been generated using artificial intelligence, it said on Thursday, using a digital watermark known as Content Credentials.

Researchers have expressed concern that AI-generated content could be used to interfere with U.S. elections this fall, and TikTok was already among a group of 20 tech companies that earlier this year signed an accord pledging to fight it.

The company already labels AI-generated content made with tools inside the app, but the latest move would apply a label to videos and images generated outside of the service.

We need to think about AI control…

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/sic-ais-on-each-other-artificial-intelligence-threat-alignment-david-brin-author/

How to stop the artificial intelligence apocalypse: David Brin, Uplift author

… He says only one thing has ever worked in history to curb bad behavior by villains. It’s not asking them nicely, and it’s not creating ethical codes or safety boards.

It’s called reciprocal accountability, and he thinks it will work for AI as well.

“Empower individuals to hold each other accountable. We know how to do this fairly well. And if we can get AIs doing this, there may be a soft landing waiting for us,” he tells Magazine.

Why aren’t other states passing similar laws?

https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-privacy/employers-beware-new-wave-of-illinois-genetic-information-privacy-act-litigation/

Employers Beware: New Wave of Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act Litigation

Likely spurred by plaintiffs’ recent successes in cases under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), a new wave of class actions is emerging under Illinois’s Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”). While BIPA regulates the collection, use, and disclosure of biometric data, GIPA regulates that of genetic testing information. Each has a private right of action and provides for significant statutory damages, even potentially where plaintiffs allege a violation of the rule without actual damages. From its 1998 enactment until last year, there were few GIPA cases, and they were largely focused on claims related to genetic testing companies. More recently, plaintiffs have brought dozens of cases against employers alleging GIPA violations based on allegations of employers requesting family medical history through pre-employment physical exams. This article explores GIPA’s background, the current landscape and key issues, and considerations for employers.

Explainer.

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-predictive-ai-and-how-does-it-work/

What Is Predictive AI, and How Does It Work?

… Predictive AI uses information from things that have already happened to make predictions and projections for what might happen in the future. To be used successfully, it requires access to high-quality data and subject matter expertise from humans to correctly identify trends.

Perspective.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-doesnt-threaten-humanity-its-owners-do/

AI Doesn’t Threaten Humanity. Its Owners Do

We shouldn’t be afraid of AI taking over humanity; we should fear the fact that our humanity hasn’t kept up with our technology

Is AI a peer?

https://www.bespacific.com/researchers-warned-against-using-ai-to-peer-review-academic-papers/

Researchers warned against using AI to peer review academic papers

Semafor [read free on first click only]: “Researchers should not be using tools like ChatGPT to automatically peer review papers, warned organizers of top AI conferences and academic publishers worried about maintaining intellectual integrity. With recent advances in large language models, researchers have been increasingly using them to write peer reviews — a time-honored academic tradition that examines new research and assesses its merits, showing a person’s work has been vetted by other experts in the field. That’s why asking ChatGPT to analyze manuscripts and critique the research, without having read the papers, would undermine the peer review process. To tackle the problem, AI and machine learning conferences are now thinking about updating their policies, as some guidelines don’t explicitly ban the use of AI to process manuscripts, and the language can be fuzzy. The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is considering setting up a committee to determine whether it should update its policies around using LLMs for peer review, a spokesperson told Semafor. At NeurIPS, researchers should not “share submissions with anyone without prior approval” for example, while the ethics code at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), whose annual confab kicked off Tuesday, states that “LLMs are not eligible for authorship.” Representatives from NeurIPS and ICLR said “anyone” includes AI, and that authorship covers both papers and peer review comments. A spokesperson for Springer Nature, an academic publishing company best known for its top research journal Nature, said that experts are required to evaluate research and leaving it to AI is risky. “Peer reviewers are accountable for the accuracy and views expressed in their reports and their expert evaluations help ensure the integrity, reproducibility and quality of the scientific record,” they said. “Their in-depth knowledge and expertise is irreplaceable and despite rapid progress, generative AI tools can lack up-to-date knowledge and may produce nonsensical, biased or false information.”

What if the AI does not agree? Will it be able to provide feedback?

https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-posts-model-spec-revealing-how-it-wants-ai-to-behave/

OpenAI posts Model Spec revealing how it wants AI to behave

… Today, it unveiled “Model Spec,” a framework document designed to shape the behavior of AI models used within the OpenAI application programming interface (API) and ChatGPT, and on which it is soliciting feedback from the public using a web form here, open till May 22.

Perspective.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715422/how-generative-ai-is-redefining-data-analytics.html

How generative AI is redefining data analytics 

Generative AI not only makes analytics tools easier to use, but also substantially improves the quality of automation that can be applied across the data analytics life cycle.

… Our survey found that generative AI is already impacting the achievement of organizational goals at 80% of organizations. What led the way, as the #2 and #3 use cases, were analytics—both the creation of and the synthesis of new insights for the organization. These use cases trailed only content generation in terms of embrace.

This could get really complicated, unless there a few options offered. Out of a global library, how much value would be lost?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/openai-says-its-building-a-tool-to-let-content-creators-opt-out-of-ai-training/?guccounter=1

OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training

OpenAI says that it’s developing a tool to let creators better control how their content’s used in training generative AI.

The tool, called Media Manager, will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how they want those works to be included or excluded from AI research and training.

The goal is to have the tool in place by 2025, OpenAI says, as the company works with “creators, content owners and regulators” toward a standard — perhaps through the industry steering committee it recently joined.

“This will require cutting-edge machine learning research to build a first-ever tool of its kind to help us identify copyrighted text, images, audio and video across multiple sources and reflect creator preferences,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. “Over time, we plan to introduce additional choices and features.”

Put employees in a pot of cool water then gradually nudge up the heat.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-hazards-of-putting-ethics-on-autopilot/

The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot

… Our examination of the consequences of “nudging” techniques, used by companies to influence employees or customers to take certain actions, has implications for organizations adopting the new generation of chatbots and automated assistants. Companies implementing generative AI agents are encouraged to tailor them to increase managerial control. Microsoft, which has made copilots available across its suite of productivity software, offers a tool that enterprises can customize, thus allowing them to more precisely steer employee behavior. Such tools will make it much easier for companies to essentially put nudging on steroids — and based on our research into the effects of nudging, that may over time diminish individuals’ own willingness and capacity to reflect on the ethical dimension of their decisions.

Perspective.

https://www.bespacific.com/microsoft-linkedin-release-2024-work-trend-index-on-state-of-ai-at-work/

Microsoft LinkedIn release 2024 Work Trend Index on state of AI at work

“On Wednesday May 8, 2024 Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn released the 2024 Work Trend Index, a joint report on the state of AI at work titled, “AI at work is here. Now comes the hard part.” The research — based on a survey of 31,000 people across 31 countries, labor and hiring trends on LinkedIn, trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, and research with Fortune 500 customers — shows how, just one year in, AI is influencing the way people work, lead and hire around the world. Microsoft also announced new capabilities in Copilot for Microsoft 365, and LinkedIn made free more than 50 learning courses for LinkedIn Premium subscribers designed to empower professionals at all levels to advance their AI aptitude. The data is in: 2024 is the year AI at work gets real. Use of generative AI at work has nearly doubled in the past six months. LinkedIn is seeing a significant increase in professionals adding AI skills to their profiles, and most leaders say they wouldn’t hire someone without AI skills. But with many leaders worried their company lacks an AI vision, and employees bringing their own AI tools to work, leaders have reached the hard part of any tech disruption: moving from experimentation to tangible business impact.”…The report highlights three insights every leader and professional needs to know about AI’s impact on work and the labor market in the year ahead:

• Employees want AI at work — and won’t wait for companies to catch up

• For employees, AI raises the bar and breaks the career ceiling

• The rise of the AI power user — and what they reveal about the future…”

Contacting potential voters online using AI has to be cheaper than going door to door. Can it also be more truthful?

https://apnews.com/article/ai-trump-campaign-2024-election-brad-parscale-3ff2c8eba34b87754cc25e96aa257c9d

Brad Parscale helped Trump win in 2016 using Facebook ads. Now he’s back, and an AI evangelist

… Parscale, the digital campaign operative who helped engineer Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, vows that his new, AI-powered platform will dramatically overhaul not just polling, but campaigning. His AI-powered tools, he has boasted, will outperform big tech companies and usher in a wave of conservative victories worldwide.

It’s not the first time Parscale has proclaimed that new technologies will boost right-wing campaigns. He was the digital guru who teamed up with scandal-plagued Cambridge Analytica and helped propel Trump to the White House eight years ago. In 2020, he had a public blowup then a private falling out with his old boss after the Capitol riot. Now he’s back, playing an under-the-radar role to help Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, in his race against Democratic President Joe Biden.

Parscale says his company Campaign Nucleus can use AI to help generate customized emails, parse oceans of data to gauge voter sentiment and find persuadable voters, then amplify the social media posts of “anti-woke” influencers, according to an Associated Press review of Parscale’s public statements, his company websites, slide decks, marketing materials and other documents not previously made public.

(Related) Imagine FDR proclaiming, “We have nothing to fear but Trump himself.”

https://restofworld.org/2024/dead-relatives-ai-deepfake-india/

Indian politicians are bringing the dead on the campaign trail, with help from AI

Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and manage the future.

Even AI finds AI confusing…

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-says-it-can-now-detect-images-spawned-by-its-softwaremost-of-the-time-83011149?st=hfix05fvfnpjfo1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

OpenAI Says It Can Now Detect Images Spawned by Its Software—Most of the Time

Startup’s new tool detects 98% of pictures generated by its DALL-E 3 system, but success drops if the images are altered

… OpenAI said its new tool is about 98% accurate in detecting content created by DALL-E 3 under most circumstances—if the image isn’t altered. When those images are screenshot or cropped, the classifier is slightly less successful, but can still often make an accurate identification.

The tool’s performance declines further under certain conditions, such as when the hue of those images is changed, said Sandhini Agarwal, an OpenAI researcher focused on policy in an interview.

Tools & Techniques. (I just couldn’t pass this one up)

https://www.kdnuggets.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-essential-tools-for-data-analysts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-comprehensive-guide-to-essential-tools-for-data-analysts

A Comprehensive Guide to Essential Tools for Data Analysts

Data analyst tools encompass programming languages, spreadsheets, BI, and big data tools. Here are 9ish tools that cover all the tasks of data analysts well.

Anything truly new here? We (parents or society) must do this when technologies change. Unfortunately, we do it poorly.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13371301/Children-starting-using-AI.html

Children should starting using AI at 6 years old so they don't become the lost generation of workers, expert recommends

Two-thirds of preschoolers will do jobs that don't currently exist. Trade jobs and being able to think without using the internet will be valued.

Beyond a search for potential school shooters.

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/9/1671

Artificial Intelligence in Social Media Forensics: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis

Social media platforms have completely revolutionized human communication and social interactions. Their positive impacts are simply undeniable. What has also become undeniable is the prevalence of harmful antisocial behaviors on these platforms. Cyberbullying, misinformation, hate speech, radicalization, and extremist propaganda have caused significant harms to society and its most vulnerable populations. Thus, the social media forensics field was born to enable investigators and law enforcement agents to better investigate and prosecute these cybercrimes. This paper surveys the latest research works in the field to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are being utilized in social media forensics investigations. We examine how natural language processing can be used to identify extremist ideologies, detect online bullying, and analyze deceptive profiles. Additionally, we explore the literature on GNNs and how they are applied in social network modeling for forensic purposes. We conclude by discussing the key challenges in the field and suggest future research directions.

Is this the court’s fault?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ai-tool-used-thousands-criminal-cases-facing-legal-challenges-rcna149607

An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges

Cybercheck's founder has said the software tops 90% accuracy. Defense lawyers have said he lied under oath about his expertise and made false claims about when and where the technology has been used.

Law enforcement agencies and prosecutors from Colorado to New York have turned to a little-known artificial intelligence tool in recent years to help investigate, charge and convict suspects accused of murder and other serious crimes.

But as the software, called Cybercheck, has spread, defense lawyers have questioned its accuracy and reliability. Its methodology is opaque, they’ve said, and it hasn’t been independently vetted.

The company behind the software has said the technology relies on machine learning to scour vast swaths of the web and gather “open source intelligence” — social media profiles, email addresses and other publicly available information — to help identify potential suspects’ physical locations and other details in homicides and human trafficking crimes, cold cases and manhunts.

The tool’s creator, Adam Mosher, has said that Cybercheck’s accuracy tops 90% and that it performs automated research that would take humans hundreds of hours to complete. By last year, the software had been used in nearly 8,000 cases spanning 40 states and nearly 300 agencies, according to a court decision that cited prosecutors in a New York case that relied on the tool.

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg thinks this is true?

https://apnews.com/article/facebook-election-misinformation-ads-trump-democrats-meta-5326da196688d2de85c5eb448dfa4e15

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election

Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries of state from Colorado, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Vermont said allowing such ads will further erode trust in elections and fuel threats of political violence against election workers, which already has led some to leave the profession. Also signing the letter was Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, who does not oversee elections.

Can I make a ‘deepfake’ video of myself? For example, I might want to create a Rap version of my campaign speech.

https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/house-passes-bill-to-ban-ai-generated-media-90-days-before-elections/

House passes bill to ban AI-generated media 90 days before elections

… The legislation defines deep fakes, or synthetic media, as images, audio recordings or video recordings of someone’s “appearance, speech or conduct that has been intentionally manipulated with the use of generative adversarial network techniques or other digital technology to create a realistic but false image, audio or video.”

The ban itself would concern any depiction of political candidates that are made to look authentic and would “present a fundamentally different understanding or impression of the appearance, action or speech” than if it were real media.

If the person who made the deep fake discloses it is AI-generated, then this bill’s ban wouldn’t apply.

It can’t hurt. Googling “list of default passwords” was the first step for any hacker.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/the-uk-bans-default-passwords.html

The UK Bans Default Passwords

The UK is the first country to ban default passwords on IoT devices.

On Monday, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted.

The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for.

The UK may be the first country, but as far as I know, California is the first jurisdiction. It banned default passwords in 2018, the law taking effect in 2020.

This sort of thing benefits all of us everywhere. IoT manufacturers aren’t making two devices, one for California and one for the rest of the US. And they’re not going to make one for the UK and another for the rest of Europe, either. They’ll remove the default passwords and sell those devices everywhere.

Another news article.

What price poor security?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/unitedhealth-ceo-says-company-paid-hackers-22-million-ransom.html

UnitedHealth CEO tells lawmakers the company paid hackers a $22 million ransom

… Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., held up a bright yellow copy of “Hacking for Dummies” during the hearing, saying the breach is UnitedHealth’s responsibility to fix.

“This is some basic stuff that was missed, so shame on internal audit, external audit and your systems folks tasked with redundancy, they’re not doing their job,” Tillis said.

Resource.

https://tech.co/news/google-ai-essentials

Google AI Essentials: Learn How to Use Generative AI for Work

… The course from Google — titled AI Essentials — is designed to give students some hands-on experience with generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, so they can feel comfortable using it in a work setting.

Is this the same as asking for compensation because I might have read an article in your newspaper (or a competitor’s) and might have incorporated “a fact” into the answer to a user’s question?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/business/media/newspapers-sued-microsoft-openai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU0.rw13.BUd-iupR_iNx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.

Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, accusing the tech companies of illegally using news articles to power their A.I. chatbots.

The publications — The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, The Sun Sentinel of Florida, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Orange County Register and The St. Paul Pioneer Press — filed the complaint in federal court in the U.S. Southern District of New York. All are owned by MediaNews Group or Tribune Publishing, subsidiaries of Alden, the country’s second-largest newspaper operator.

In the complaint, the publications accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of using millions of copyrighted articles without permission to train and feed their generative A.I. products, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. The lawsuit does not demand specific monetary damages, but it asks for a jury trial and said the publishers were owed compensation from the use of the content.

The complaint said the chatbots regularly surfaced the entire text of articles behind subscription paywalls for users and often did not prominently link back to the source. This, it said, reduced the need for readers to pay subscriptions to support local newspapers and deprived the publishers of revenue both from subscriptions and from licensing their content elsewhere.

Do I have a right to not identify myself?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-declines-block-texas-pornography-restriction-rcna149877

Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction

… The challengers said the 2023 law violates the Constitution’s First Amendment by requiring anyone using the platforms in question, including adults, to submit personal information.

Is this spontaneous or directed? We need to find out quick!

https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/04/state-ag-demands-answers-about-meta-ai-chatbots-false-accusations/396144/

State AG demands answers about Meta AI chatbot’s false accusations

State Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to Meta, the parent company of Facebook, demanding answers about the company’s AI chatbot fabricating allegations of sexual harassment against state lawmakers. The letter is dated April 27, one day after City & State reported that the Meta AI chatbot was informing users about completely made-up allegations of harassment concerning elected officials.

In the letter, which directly cites City & State’s reporting, James wrote that her office tested the chatbot and found it “yielded similar results, including citations to fabricated source articles.” “We are deeply concerned about the creation and dissemination of such misinformation, which is likely to harm the reputation of New York State officials and mislead New York residents,” James wrote.

I make it 18 of 50.

https://www.insideprivacy.com/privacy-and-data-security/nebraska-enacts-nebraska-data-privacy-act/

Nebraska Enacts Nebraska Data Privacy Act

On April 17, the Nebraska governor signed the Nebraska Data Privacy Act (the “NDPA”) into law. Nebraska is the latest state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Florida, Delaware,  New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kentucky, and Maryland. The NDPA will take effect on January 1, 2025. This blog post summarizes the statute’s key takeaways.

Any ideas for tapping that market?

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2024/04/26/legal-tech-market-will-be-worth-50bn-by-2027-because-of-genai-gartner/

‘Legal Tech Market Will Be Worth $50bn by 2027…Because of GenAI’ – Gartner

Technology market analysts Gartner have announced that ‘the legal tech market will reach $50 billion in value by 2027’– with genAI as the key driver for growth. In comparison, one recent estimate from Fairfield research stated that the market in 2022 was worth $25.6 billion. So, that’s quite a big leap.

This looks like the tip of an iceberg to me.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/chatgpt-gdpr-complaint-noyb/

ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU

OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformation it generates about individuals.

… Now noyb is filing the latest GDPR complaint against ChatGPT with the Austrian data protection authority on behalf of an unnamed complainant (described as a “public figure”) who found the AI chatbot produced an incorrect birth date for them.

Under the GDPR, people in the EU have a suite of rights attached to information about them, including a right to have erroneous data corrected. noyb contends OpenAI is failing to comply with this obligation in respect of its chatbot’s output. It said the company refused the complainant’s request to rectify the incorrect birth date, responding that it was technically impossible for it to correct.

Instead it offered to filter or block the data on certain prompts, such as the name of the complainant.

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.bespacific.com/transcribe-anything-for-free-with-this-privacy-respecting-ai-tool/

Transcribe anything for free with this privacy-respecting AI tool

Fast Company: “…an AI tool that runs completely on a web page in your browser. It’s useful, too. There’s no account needed, and your data doesn’t leave your own device—so you don’t have to worry about privacy. It’s the kind of thing that demonstrates why so many companies want AI applications to run on our own phones and computers in the future. And it’s available for you to use right this minute, today—if you know where to look. Your personal (and private) AI transcriber. Once, audio transcription was done the hard way. Someone would have to listen to an audio file and type it into text. Now, there are so many great ways to turn the spoken word into text—including the free, open-source AI tool we’re about to go over. Named Whisper Web, this application actually downloads and0 runs OpenAI’s Whisper AI model in your browser while you’re viewing the web page. The work isn’t happening on some distant cloud server—it’s happening right on your computer or phone. You can try this out in about 10 seconds. Whether you have a recording of a meeting or you’d just like to speak into your microphone and turn whatever you say into text, it’s easy…”

Tools & Techniques. Plenty to choose from and play with…

https://www.aitoolsclub.com/

AI Tools Club

Find cool artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Our expert team reviews and provides insights into some of the most cutting-edge AI tools available.

Building SkyNet? (We could do this. We should do this. We must do this.)

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003421849-6/ethical-analysis-ai-based-systems-military-use-gregory-reichberg-henrik-syse

Ethical analysis of AI-based systems for military use

AI-enabled technologies can have two different functions in battlefield settings. On the one hand, by collecting data and issuing targeting recommendations, machines will provide support for human decision-making; inversely, decision-making can be delegated to machines, enabling them to engage with targets without the direct intervention of human operators. Regarding the first function, we show how machine-issued target-identification and target-engagement recommendations, despite the notable efficiency gains, also involve possible ethical downsides. These are discussed in terms of the ‘overfitting problem,’ ‘classification problem,’ ‘information overload,’ ‘automation bias’ and ‘automation complacency.’ Regarding the second function – autonomous weapon systems (AWS) – we survey the ethical arguments that have been proposed for and against their deployment on the battlefield. Afterwards, distinguishing the deliberate misuse of AI systems from problems associated with accidents and safety, we explain how precautions, including rigorous testing, must be introduced early on when new systems are designed. Later, during military training, feedback loops will ensure that systems can be appropriately modified vis-à-vis user experience. The interaction of designers, autonomous technologies and end-users can fruitfully be assessed under the rubric of ‘virtue ethics,’ as is shown in the chapter's concluding section.

(Related) Is this a ‘first step?’

https://irjaeh.com/index.php/journal/article/view/142

Automating Traffic Law Enforcement: Leveraging AI for Real-Time Number Plate Recognition and Owner Identification

The enforcement of traffic laws is a critical aspect of maintaining safety and order on roadways. Traditional methods of traffic law enforcement have relied heavily on manual intervention, resulting in inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and resource-intensive processes. However, with recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision technology, there lies a significant opportunity to revolutionize traffic law enforcement through automated systems. This paper explores the utilization of AI for real-time number plate recognition and owner identification as a means to enhance traffic law enforcement. By leveraging sophisticated algorithms and deep learning techniques, AI systems can accurately detect and interpret license plate information from images or video streams captured by surveillance cameras or patrol vehicles. Furthermore, through integration with existing databases, these systems can swiftly identify vehicle owners and verify their compliance with traffic regulations.

A useful overview?

https://www.bespacific.com/the-legal-ethics-of-generative-ai/

The Legal Ethics of Generative AI

Perlman, Andrew, The Legal Ethics of Generative AI (February 22, 2024). Suffolk University Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4735389 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4735389

The legal profession is notoriously conservative when it comes to change. From email to outsourcing, lawyers have been slow to embrace new methods and quick to point out potential problems, especially ethics-related concerns. The legal profession’s approach to generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) is following a similar pattern. Many lawyers have readily identified the legal ethics issues associated with generative AI, often citing the New York lawyer who cut and pasted fictitious citations from ChatGPT into a federal court filing. Some judges have gone so far as to issue standing orders requiring lawyers to reveal when they use generative AI or to ban the use of most kinds of artificial intelligence (AI) outright. Bar associations are chiming in on the subject as well, though they have (so far) taken an admirably open-minded approach to the subject. Part II of this essay explains why the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (Model Rules) do not pose a regulatory barrier to lawyers’ careful use of generative AI, just as the Model Rules did not ultimately prevent lawyers from adopting many now-ubiquitous technologies. Drawing on my experience as the Chief Reporter of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 (Ethics 20/20 Commission), which updated the Model Rules to address changes in technology, I explain how lawyers can use generative AI while satisfying their ethical obligations. Although this essay does not cover every possible ethics issue that can arise or all of generative AI’s law-related use cases, the overarching point is that lawyers can use these tools in many contexts if they employ appropriate safeguards and procedures. Part III describes some recent judicial standing orders on the subject and explains why they are ill-advised. The essay closes in Part IV with a potentially provocative claim: the careful use of generative AI is not only consistent with lawyers’ ethical duties, but the duty of competence may eventually require lawyers’ use of generative AI. The technology is likely to become so important to the delivery of legal services that lawyers who fail to use it will be considered as incompetent as lawyers today who do not know how to use computers, email, or online legal research tools.”

Real rules on deepfakes?

https://www.bespacific.com/deepfakes-in-the-courtroom/

Deepfakes in the courtroom

Ars Technica: “US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules Panel of eight judges confronts deep-faking AI tech that may undermine legal trials. On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court trials, according to a Reuters report. The US Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, an eight-member panel responsible for drafting evidence-related amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence, heard from computer scientists and academics about the potential risks of AI being used to manipulate images and videos or create deepfakes that could disrupt a trial. The meeting took place amid broader efforts by federal and state courts nationwide to address the rise of generative AI models (such as those that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion ), which can be trained on large datasets with the aim of producing realistic text, images, audio, or videos. In the published 358-page agenda for the meeting, the committee offers up this definition of a deepfake and the problems AI-generated media may pose in legal trials..”

How should you regulate an AI that might grow into a person?

https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/25/colorado-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-senate/

Colorado bill to regulate generative artificial intelligence clears its first hurdle at the Capitol

A Colorado bill that would require companies to alert consumers anytime artificial intelligence is used and to add more protections to the budding AI industry cleared its first legislative hurdle late Wednesday, even as critics testified it could stifle technological innovation in the state.

At the end of the evening, most sides seemed to agree: The bill still needs work.