Have been meaning to Tweet about really strong investigation by Investico into an algorithm used by DUO, the NL Education Ministry, that attempts to flag students for fraud investigations. Their findings point to a deeply flawed and discriminatory system platform-investico.nl/artikel/ik-wil…

one of the most profound and dangerous implications that mass deployment of FRT has brought is the popularisation of surveillance as the norm and anything else as the suspicious exception 2/2

Ik had de behoefte om iets te schrijven voor 15 augustus, maar ik geloof dat ik het meeste vorig jaar al heb gezegd. mikoflohr.org/blog/2022/08/1…

Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy. Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $. If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.) wired.com/story/apple-cs…

Claims such as “AGI is imminent” or “given current rate of progress AGI is inevitable” are pseudoscientific claims. Do we need a open letter? Just read our paper that explains why, and presents a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading.

"Can the technology be controlled? Does it have agency?" aren't genuine questions but a distraction because AI is human through & through. It can never exist independent of us (from those that prepare data, to those that build & maintain it, to those that make profits off AI)

Surreal seeing all this “extinction” talk. Imagine the tenets of Scientology steering multilateral orgs and governments. That’s what’s happening in AI.

This is terrible hype, harmful and with zero credibility. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/deb…

When we talk about not relying on machine translation by Big Tech, this is what we mean. When machine translations from Arabic, a language spoken by hundreds of millions of people, still produces dross like this, the necessity of community-oriented tech is made very plainly.

Lawyers and legal scholars. FFS. Collaborate with philosophers/ethicists if you actually try to dip your toes in philosophical or ethical waters. (A) Don't invent the wheel yourself, but (B) also don't ignore everything that has already been written.

🇬🇧EU ombudswoman on #chatcontrol: EU Commission must not hide a list of experts whose group helped undermine secure #E2EE encryption. iccl.ie/news/ombudsman… Here's the secret list - lots of tech, lots of law enforcement, hardly any EU experts: patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/upl…

You’d think the EU research sector in this area was just (the excellent) Bart Preneel. Embarassing.

What EU regulators don’t understand is that a digital identity is both a trojan for government surveillance & weakens governments vis a vis big tech companies in provisioning of identities: cause guess who’s got digital wallets and lack trusted ids! Margrethe Vestager should know better.

For the first time, Signal has released a breakdown of its costs, which will reach $50 million a year by 2025. Its president Meredith Whittaker says this isn’t just an appeal for donations. It’s a way to highlight the surveillance profit model they’re up against. wired.com/story/signal-o…

I couldn't sleep last night because I watched a video of a distraught doctor who had to amputate a limb of his own child without anesthesia, and the child later died. But sure, let's publish an article about a "schism" in AI.