The EU AI Act: What you need to know
After data privacy and GDPR, the EU wants to leave its mark on AI by regulating it with the EU AI Act. Here's what it is, what it means for the world at large, when it's expected to take effect, and what experts from the Mozilla Foundation have to say about it.
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Do AI language models really demonstrate intelligence? What about morality? Is it ok to tweak them, and if yes, who gets to do this, and how do the rest of us know?
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A pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence (AI) — who would not want that? This is how Beena Ammanath describes her new book, Trustworthy AI.
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What do we talk about when we talk about AI ethics? Just like AI itself, definitions for AI ethics seem to abound. A definition that seems to have garnered some consensus is that AI ethics is a system of moral principles and techniques intended to inform the development and responsible use of artificial intelligence technologies.
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The National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the side effects of remote work using data from GitHub.
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FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter lays out machine learning and AI's potential for harm and outlines some ways for the FTC to counter it.
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Trying to capture the value open-source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand.
Read More →Open source AI stack is ready for its moment
Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working to build a similar open source software stack for AI development.
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