Neowin News Feed for: Ethics

Pope Francis applauds AI advances but warns to use it ethically

Paul Hill — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:58:01 +0000

Pope Francis has given a speech about AI to business leaders, scientists, and others about the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms that assess behaviour. Read more...

OpenAI announces improvements to GPT-3 model with behavior customization and more

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 07:10:01 +0000

OpenAI is working on improving the behavior of ChatGPT's current language model to reduce biases and even allow its users to customize its behavior, while also seeking even more public input. Read more...

Facebook dismantles its ‘Responsible Innovation' team, but will remain 'safe and ethical'

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 22:32:02 +0000

Meta has disbanded the Responsible Innovation team that was tasked with finding potential problems with Facebook and Instagram. The members will have work opportunities, but no guaranteed jobs. Read more...

Google engineer believes company's AI has become sentient, gets put on administrative leave

Usama Jawad — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:54:01 +0000

A Google engineer has been put on paid administrative leave following his claims that the company's LaMDA AI model has become sentient and wants to be acknowledged as a person with consent rights. Read more...

Facebook helps launch independent AI ethics research center

Paul Hill — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:02:01 +0000

Facebook has given a $7.5 million grant to a new independent AI ethics research center. The new Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence will conduct research and hold various events. Read more...

Eric Schmidt thinks Elon Musk is “exactly wrong” on artificial intelligence

Paul Hill — Fri, 25 May 2018 14:40:01 +0000

Eric Schmidt is the latest person to criticise Elon Musk's Terminator AI vision. Schmidt said that AI will prove to benefit humanity as populations see ageing populations resulting in fewer workers. Read more...

If you spy on me, at least do it openly

Tyler Holman — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:43:45 +0000

If you thought malware was the only thing you had to worry about spying on you, add Fortune 500 companies to your list. Google's privacy policy is bad, but now they're exploiting my browser, too? Read more...

Arrington vs Laporte, when tech journalists collide

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:42:33 +0000

Calling the ethics or motives of any journalist into question, is one sure fire way to really make them angry. So when Michael Arrington, (editor of one of the largest technology blogs on the Internet,... Read more...