Global majority united on multilateral regulation of AI weapons computerweekly.com/news/366582577…

Military technology experts gathered in Vienna have warned that using autonomous weapons systems to target humans will erode moral agency and lead to a general devaluing of life
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During a debate on autonomous weapons systems Lords expressed mixed opinions towards the UK government’s current approach, including its reluctance to adopt a working definition and commit to international legal instruments controlling their use
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The TUC has published a “ready-to-go” law for regulating AI in the workplace, setting out a range of new legal rights and protections to manage the adverse effects of automated decision-making on workers computerweekly.com/news/366581354…

Big tech's cloud oligopoly could translate to a similar domination in the AI market, given the financial and compute resources needed to make the technology effective at scale, by Andrew Kersley
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Some thoughts on the revelations about Lavender and other AI systems: theconversation.com/gaza-war-israe… via The Conversation

phew, I can now sleep safe and sound at night knowing sir keir will not hesitate to instantaneously incinerate millions of innocent people!

The UK government is investing £55m in expanding the police's use of facial-recognition systems as part of a crackdown on shoplifters. But civil society groups say govt is attempting to police its way out of the cost-of-living crisis
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The UK government is claiming police forces’ use of live facial recognition is comprehensively covered by existing laws, in response to a Lords investigation that found police lacked a clear legal basis to deploy it computerweekly.com/news/366580336…

The Justice and Home Affairs Committee in the House of Lords warned in January that the UK's use of live facial recognition technology has no clear foundation in law and no legal framework to regulate it:

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Greek government fined over AI surveillance in refugee camps, after an investigation by the country's data watchdog found 'serious shortcomings' with the roll-out - by Lydia Emmanouilidou
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Open legal questions around how UK police are using facial recognition and cloud technology could undermine the £230m investment committed in the Spring Budget to “time and money-saving technology” for police
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Great piece by Adele Zeynep Walton, who's written about how generative AI is threatening the livelihoods of creative workers for her debut in ComputerWeekly
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All of this is also true of American tech firms and the US government. Be for real

An incisive overview of the UK government response to the HoL Select Committee on AI weapons report, with some of my reflections on the still rather vague term 'responsible AI' doing some heavy lifting these days.

UK government insists it is acting ‘responsibly’ on autonomous weapons and military AI

Includes critical perspectives from Elke Schwarz and Drone Wars
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Do you know which US/EU/Chinese/Israeli outfits are selling which surveillance technolgies to African govts? Anand & seb present the evidence in their report on suppliers of #surveillance tech to African govts. opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitst…

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gives the magic technology tree a shake - my take on #SpringBudget2024 and its £36bn promise for digital transformation savings:

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Open Rights Group accuses LiveRamp of ‘unlawful’ data processing computerweekly.com/news/366572197…