'Can We Have it All: Safe, Profitable, and Ethical #AI ?” That's the topic of a panel I am moderating at Viva Technology at 3:10 pm on Stage 2 today. Get a preview of what panelist Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, has to say.

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On my way to Brussels for the CPDP Conferences and this event on Friday with Amba Kak Adriana Groh Meredith Whittaker ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 Francesca Bria

wild to see child sexual assault as a premise for intrusive policing developed in the hood and among indigenous people be generalized to the rest of society via tech infrastructure and in this reporting, google’s client side scanning specifically

Another great event taking place this week in Brussels on Friday, with Open Markets Institute Barry Lynn speaking along Francesca Bria Meredith Whittaker Amba Kak ⿻(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 🖖 and others on how smart public investment can help us build a more open and democratic digital commons.

As Meredith Whittaker said in a keynote speech: “The current attack on end-to-end encryption is very much related to a desire by some in government to return to the less fettered access to surveillance that they see as having lost post Edward Snowden“ 10/11

this is called constant surveillance, monitoring, and tracking and it will eventually be used to influence and control the masses

The edge lord disrespect, unprofessionalism, strategic blundering typical of actual decision making in the AI industry speaks infinitely louder than all the voluntary safety pledges ever could.

In fact, those pledges serve mainly to highlight how far the walk is from the talk.

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'I look forward to the day when one or another bold EU leader makes the iconic decision to truly confront these giants, and the asymmetric power they wield from within the US.' ~ Meredith Whittaker

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#ethics #generativeAI

“…those subject to AI’s use by powerful actors must have the information, power, and ability to determine what AI systems with ‘integrity’ mean, and the ability to reject or contest their use.”

Great reporting as usual from Natasha 🧗‍♀️, getting right to the heart of the danger of client side scanning. 👇

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EXCLUSIVE: The bipartisan Senate AI roadmap is merely a commitment to spend taxpayer money on 'innovation' without laying out how it will help or protect people.
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Co-signed this significant AI counter-report:

'Congress must do more than namecheck the issues and offer token participation to those affected by AI. It must engage substantively, put public interest––not industry––in the driver’s seat' and pass enforceable laws.

Everything you need to know about Schumer's vacuous AI report, and nothing you don't 👇

Minor news, starting now!

I’m based in the EU through the end of the year, and am looking forward to engaging more easily and frequently with the great security, privacy, bringing-sanity-to-AI work happening here ❤️

Meredith Whittaker Meredith Whittaker is right. We have had the legal and technical tools to control surveillance & exploitation of personal data for decades. What is missing is the institutional will or political clarity to use them.
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'Too often political leaders behave more like U.S. tech fanboys than as stewards of their own citizens and interests and fail to question the hype that tech companies deploy in service of promoting their products as synonymous with human and scientific progress.'

It was an honor to make the laudatio for Meredith Whittaker tonight in Hamburg, handing over the DIE ZEIT Helmut Schmidt Future Prize. Moving beyond the Big Tech surveillance business model and building alternative digital infrastructures that protect rights and serve public needs.

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This (and the rest of the state level authoritarianism currently on the march in the US) should also be international news