The cybertruck recall making them finally reveal the sales figures is so good, it sold half as much as the DeLorean lmao

This is a very good video.

The House just passed the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4639, which would close the data broker loophole by prohibiting law enforcement/intel. agencies from buying Americans' sensitive data w/o a warrant. (1/3)

“The reality is that you can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful, mostly in mundane ways, & that boasts perhaps small increases in productivity if & only if the people who use it fully understand its limitations.”
—Molly White

Oh this is v important

New paper with Jelle van Dijk and Frank Pasquale

Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/… and arxiv.org/abs/2404.10072

1/

I'm lucky that early reviews of DARK WIRE, my book on how FBI secretly ran its own encrypted chat app to wiretap the world, are in

Julia Angwin said 'A jaw-dropping page turner that truly terrified me'

Preorder for behind-the-scenes content. More below hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-…

No healthcare site should be sharing data with Google, Meta or data brokers.

After decades in this space we need dissuasive enforcement.

what’s really difficult to square is entire institutions, governments & powerful international bodies claiming AI is going to benefit humanity in the backdrop of all empirical evidence showing the opposite

if you’re not careful, they’ll convince you that you’re the one going mad

Looking for a great job in the AI // tech justice space? Well, here are TWO openings at the heavy-hitting AI Now.

1: Ops Director to grow the org with care and precision
2: Associate Director to help shape and execute policy programming

Exciting! 🎉🥳I am humbled&honored to have been awarded a 2,5 million EUR European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to study how data infrastructure govern the social. After DATACTIVE, it’s now time for DATAGOV! Stay tuned:we’ll hire 7 ppl UvA Geesteswetenschappen UvA Amsterdam! #HorizonEU #ERCAdG

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:

computerweekly.com/opinion/Facial…

ComputerWeekly House of Lords UK Prime Minister

👀

It turns out the data bottleneck problem is more dire than initially thought:

AI model performance - which can be largely attributed to the presence of test concepts within their vast pretraining datasets - increases linearly with exponentially more data.

RIP: Scaling laws

The revolution will not be desktop published.

In response to the #APRA discussion draft released by Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell and Chair @CathyMcMorris, which seeks to preempt state privacy laws, CPPA Executive Director Ashkan Soltani issued the following statement:

👀

In a new blog, FTC staff highlight approaches to address AI-enabled voice cloning and how a multi-disciplinary approach can prevent consumers, workers, and businesses from being bullied, coerced or tricked: bit.ly/3PSQIpk /1

👀