From Oxford Online, we find these definitions:
philosophy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
The Canvas class modules are organized by week; new modules are usually published on Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday), and most activities for most modules occur in that week.
Obligatory xkcd collection:
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Online Ethics-oriented Resources
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Collection of ethical code URLs from NC State
Computer and Information Ethics (in particular, see the Uniqueness debate between Maner and Johnson)
Books
Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot
Norbert Weiner: The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Soshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Other
Excerpt from The Grand Design episode of "Yes, Prime Minister"
Other Readings
2021-08-26: The Myth of a Superhuman AI
2021-08-31: Flying Humanoid Robot
2021-09-02: FTC bans SpyPhone and CEO from surveillance business
2021-09-02: Victory: Federal Trade Commission Bans Stalkerware Company Conducting Business
2021-09-02: I asked GPT3 about COVID-19 — tts responses shocked me
2021-09-07: The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
2021-09-07: Operation Rubicon
2021-09-09: Apple's Bug Bounty Ethics
2021-09-09: Juniper: Mystery Attacks Traced to Pentagon Role and Chinese Hackers
2021-09-16: OpenAI Codex
2021-09-16: Project Debater
2020-02-26: Big Data Provides Personalized Pricing
2021-09-17: Tomorrow's AI will reason like humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts
2021-09-23: We need software updates forever
2021-09-23: AI writes code like human beings, bugs and all
2021-09-23: Ransomeware victims not informed that FBI secretly held REvil decryption key
2021-09-23: AI for weed eradication
2021-09-23: Is computer science misnamed?
2021-09-28: Codex at work
2021-09-28: Mayflower revisited, humans need not apply
2021-09-28: Rajasthan blocks internet for testing
2021-09-28: Who owns the copyright?
2021-09-28: Playform.io
2021-09-28: Meet the artist
2021-09-28: GAN becomes CAN
2021-09-29: Live Stream of Beethoven's 10th Symphony on October 9, 2021. (Starts at 12:55, Tallahassee time.)
2021-09-30: AI comments on AI
2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?
2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?
2021-09-30: Another grand success for AI
2021-09-30: Lethal weapon system may have already killed people
2021-10-05: Rise of one time password interceptions bots
2021-10-05: On the nature of mathematics
2021-10-05: Singapore passes foreign interference law; authorities can block Internet content
2021-10-05: A budget for retaliatory cyberwarfare in the UK
2021-10-07: EU moves on biometric mass surveillance
2021-10-12: The future of work is uniquely human
2021-10-12: The State of Surveillance in 2021
2021-10-12: AI Jobs: on the farm and in the forest
2021-10-12: Precrime in the surveillance state
2021-10-13: Humans need not apply: Nissan's Intelligent Factory
2021-10-13: Nissan's press release
2021-10-14: Ghost Robotics, Inc
2021-10-14: Computerized canines to join Team Tyndall
2021-10-14: Ghost Roboticss now makes a lethal robot dog
2021-10-14: Robot future for military dog handlers?
2021-10-14: America's approach to command and control goes peer-to-peer
2021-10-14: Implementing Response AI in the Department of Defense
2021-10-14: AI Principles for DOD (Background for above document)
2021-10-14: What robot dogs can do
2021-10-18: The Pentagon and AI Oracles
2021-10-19: Racing drones soon will outperform humans?
2021-10-19: False Alarms in the Nuclear Age (2001)
2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)
2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site
2021-10-19: Missouri Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaws in state website
2021-10-19: Brian Krebs take on above story
2021-10-19: Genetic AI algorithm development
2021-10-21: AI and employment: Will college involve fewer professors?
2021-10-21: Today's business world: AI fights ransomware
2021-10-21: The Register's Advertorial for above
2021-10-21: Business practices in 2021: Guns on robots?
2021-10-21: Restaurants and robots
2021-10-26: Wikipedia's list of scholarly publishing stings
2021-10-26: Popper's "Science as Falsification"
2021-10-26: New York Times writer attacked by mysterious malware
2021-10-26: A new, relevant xkcd:
2021-10-26: Empirical observation of negligible fairness–accuracy trade-offs in machine learning for public policy
2021-10-28: US Government Owes Over $100 Million Because of Tray/Cart Patent Infringement
2021-10-28: EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month Award" for the same cart/tray patent
2021-10-28: Patent 6,888,460
2021-10-28: Court decision of 2021-10-28
2021-10-28: FSF: Can you trust?
2021-10-28: EFF: Meditations on Trusted Computing
2021-10-28: Trusted Computing Promise and Risk
2021-11-02: Trusting compilers in 2021 (The paper referenced and a website (cross reference this to the much older IDN homograph_attack
2021-11-02: Analyzing complexity for QEMU
2021-11-02: Drone autonomously fights fires?
2021-11-04: Monetizing all human behavior?
2021-11-04: Open source access, sometimes not legal in Sweden?
2021-11-09: The Skinner Box
2021-11-09: The Arms Trade and Pervasive Surveillance Tools
2021-11-16: DOD and AI Ethics
2021-11-16: Biological computation
2021-11-16: Robots in space
2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, U.S.
2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, Russia
2021-11-29: Xenobots: life meets technology
2021-11-29: Self-replicating robots (CNN version) The paper
2021-11-29: Cyberwar not covered
2022-01-11: Intel Deletes Reference to Xianjiang after Backlash in China
2022-01-11: Facial recognition as a Pareto Technology
2022-01-11: Texas cities experience phishing via qr codes attached parking meters
2022-01-11: Air Tag Tracking
2022-01-13: Autonomous Weapons
2022-01-13: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist, and They Must Be Banned
2022-01-13: Operation Trojan Shield
2022-01-18: U.S. Airlines Warn of Chaos with the rollout of 5G
2022-01-18: Agricultural Autonomy
2022-01-18: Hume AI
2022-01-18: Will AI Destroy Education?
2022-01-20: The most recent SIGCAS newsletter (2021 Fall)
2022-01-20: The robot revolution continues: the worst warehouse job
2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor
2022-01-20: Can a robot be arrested? Hold a patent? Pay income taxes
2022-01-20: IRS to require selfies?
2022-01-20: EFF: Williams versus San Francisco
2022-01-20: Dubbing via AI?
2022-01-25: Researchers build AI that builds AI
2022-01-25: The ClearView AI saga continues in Canada
2022-01-25: A right to repair?
2022-01-25: Hacktivists say they hacked Belarus Rail Systems to Stop Russian military buildup
2022-01-25: "Slightly" superhuman hiking?
2022-01-27: Identity theft thrives
2022-01-27: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs tracking mechanisms
2022-01-27: Britain and AI decision-making
2022-01-27: The rise of the robots in Singapore
2022-01-27: Our automated future?
2022-01-27: ID.ME changes its tune on techniques
2022-01-27: Privacy policies and larger considerations
2022-01-27: AI chatbots, admissions, and ethical risks
2022-01-31: When the algorithm is your boss
2022-02-01: The NSA Spies Shaping the Future
2022-02-02: AlphaCode
2022-02-02: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
2022-02-07: Ghost dogs on the border
2022-02-08: The future of warfare? (From here
2022-02-08: Throwable robots?
2022-02-08: IRS backs off from biometric measures?
2022-02-10: Google Analytics GDPR Breach
2022-02-10: Zoom
2022-02-10: The trade in surveillance meets the world of arms
2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor
2022-02-15: Robots face many challenges
2022-02-16: Honorlock?
2022-02-22: Copyright Office answers "no" to AI authorship question
2022-02-22: Open Letter on AI
2022-02-24: EU Proposes Data Laws
2022-02-24: Missouri Governor's Office?
2022-02-24: Employment fraud?
2022-02-25: ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior
2022-03-01: Et tu, Apple?
2022-03-03: Warren and Warner write letter to the Treasury
2022-03-08: Echoes in the Uncanny Valley? (Uncanny Valley explanation)
2022-03-10: Money, fraud, and the Internet: who is responsible?
2022-03-10: Explain yourself?
2022-03-22: Dual use for AI
2022-03-22: Cell phones: knowing where you are...
2022-03-22: Privacy Police?
2022-03-22: Itami: Mass surveillance of the elderly
2022-03-22: My wife tracked me for journalism
2022-03-22: This article is spying on you...
2022-03-24: Tools for good... can these be used for bad?
2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)
2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site
2022-03-29: Clearview AI : Ukraine?
2022-03-29: A Brave New World of Nullities
2022-03-29: Whose fault: autonomous entity or human?
2022-03-29: OpenAI and human augmentation
2022-03-29: Hackers gain power of subpoena through fraudulent emergency data requests
2022-03-30: GPT3 grows more impressive
2022-03-30: How your shadow credit score could be used
2022-03-30: Direct interfaces
2022-03-31: Giordano and battlefields
2022-03-31: What other students in computer ethics are thinking
2022-04-05: Would you hire this AI?
2022-04-05: USB-C madness, technological duplicity
2022-04-05: In praise of desktop computing
2022-04-05: The Thin Edge of the Wedge?
2022-04-05: The Thin Edge, part II? (video)
2022-04-05: More robodogs on military bases
2022-04-07: Advanced Persistent Teens
2022-04-07: Why, Worldcoin?
2022-04-07: DALL-E-2 (NY Times version)
2022-04-07: DALL-E
2022-04-07: Robots in space
2022-04-07: Improving Man-Machine Interfaces
2022-04-07: Imaging AI autonomous entity cleared for use
2022-04-10: AI to make triage decisions on the battlefield?
2022-04-10: Speed Cam Anywhere!
2022-04-10: Double your money!
2022-04-10: ACM: Technology and its impact
2022-04-10: Dall-e-2 Friday
2022-04-13: Caltech graduate sentenced to five years federal prison for presentation on cryptocurrency — in North Korea
2022-05-10: AI outperforms humans
2022-05-12: AI goes to war in Ukraine
2022-05-12: The Weapon that Mistook a School Bus for an Ostrich
2022-05-12: AI succeeds at yet another Turing Test: this time in product reviews
2022-05-12: NY Times editorial on NFTs
2022-05-12: OpenSea
2022-05-12: OpenSea, II
2022-05-17: Congressional activity with regard to ClearviewAI
2022-05-17: DHS current client of ClearviewAI 2022-05-17: Digital Dragnet: ICE makes wide use of facial recognition
2022-05-17: When Corporate Interests and International Cyber Agreements Collide
2022-05-24: Imagen: DALL-E 2 now has competition
2022-05-24: AI tells a story, makes illustrations
2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined
2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined
2022-05-24: Deep Fakes become ever-more convincing
2022-05-26: Eutopian Superintelligence?
2022-05-26: AI at work, the best case
2022-05-26: AI at work, in reality
2022-05-31: Superintelligence: AI detects race from x-rays, an ability that humans do not have (Original article
2022-05-31: The professor is definitely not in
2022-05-31: Honorlock?
2022-05-31: The cryptic world of crypto
2022-05-31: What is the truth about Zadira and Peresvet?
2022-06-02: Nokia says 6G will be a revolution in 10 years time
2022-06-02: Discovering the secret language of DALLE-2
2022-06-07: International Law Enforcement and Intergovernmental Cooperation 2022
2022-06-07: Palermo government computing goes out
2022-06-07: Italy warns about Killnet
2022-06-07: Romania and Killnet
2022-06-09: Address to the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group (FELEG)
2022-06-09: Five Eyes Foresee Alarms
2022-06-09: Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group Meets in 2016
2022-06-09: Simulation or Gamefication?
2022-06-09: War Thunder Leaks
2022-06-09: Recent information on the Paige Thompson case
2022-06-09: Update: Capital One was fined in 2020 in regard to the Paige Thompson case
2022-06-09: Inside the mind of the Capital One hacker
2022-06-09: US v. Paige Thompson
2022-06-09: Software development in 2022: Work and ip-washing
2022-06-09: IP-washing aspects of AI generated code
2022-06-09: Meet Amazon's first fully autonomous mobile robot
2022-06-09: HIKvision and the SDN question
2022-06-28: European Parliament's "Framework of ethical aspects of AI, robotics, and related technologies
2022-06-28: European Parliament's proposed set of AI regulationss
2022-06-28: LaMDA?
2022-06-28: Models and Science
2022-06-30: Interview with an entity
2022-06-30: Hacker News debates the interview with an entity
2022-06-30: Searle's Chinese Room argument
2022-07-05: Can a corporation trademark a color?
2022-07-05: Experiments with DALL-E
2022-07-05: Mickey Mouse?
2022-07-07: Code replay attack on the myGovID Scheme
2022-07-07: Can Computers be Mathematicians?
2022-07-07: Copyright in action, 2022
2022-07-07: Wiretapping the world
2022-07-07: Windows11 and webcams
2022-07-12: Burma rolls out Chinese surveillance systems
2022-07-12: Democratization of AI?
2022-07-14: Gaming and toxicity?
2022-08-23: University of Maryland Professor Built Machine for China's Alibaba
2022-08-25: Honorlock in the courts
2022-08-30: Ethics in advertising?
2022-08-30: Civilian AI Is Already Being Misused by the Bad Guys
2022-09-01: Why do you want to work here?
2022-09-01: AI wins state fair art contest
2022-09-01: Why Dall-E will not steal my job
2022-09-01: Stories by AI (Hacker News discussion)
2022-09-01: Dall-E introduces "outpainting"
2022-09-01: Stable Diffusion Demo Image created by Stable Diffusion:
2022-09-01: ClearviewAI has a rival
2022-09-01: What does GPT3 know about me?
2022-09-01: BlenderBOT3
2022-09-06: ICO fines Clearview AI
2022-09-06: Clearview AI fined
2022-09-06: Meta fined $400 million for privacy violations related to children's personal data
2022-09-06: Deepfakes
2022-09-06: AI competition for Eric Carle's work?
2022-09-08: Stable Diffusion and ethics concerns
2022-09-08: China and Smart Cities
2022-09-13: The ethics of art and "creativity"?
2022-09-13: Academic publishers using AI
2022-09-13: How to stop Smart Cities from becoming surveillance cities
2022-09-13: LED Streetlights, surveillance, and "Smart Cities"
2022-09-20: 1984 2022: Totalitarian state erases the "past"
2022-09-20: Artist unhappy with AI image generation
2022-09-20: Hazlitt's observation becoming obsolete? ("Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.")
2022-09-20: State of surveillance: Instagram influencers surveilled
2022-09-20: AI assistant organizes your digital life
2022-09-20: New student in class?
2022-09-21: Are China's Smart Cities Really Surveillance Cities?
2022-09-22: San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
2022-09-22: San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor 'significant events'
2022-09-22: ACLU/EFF position on SFPD use of private cameras for public surveillance
2022-09-22: U.S. military buys mass monitoring data
2022-09-22: Letter to Senator Wyden from DOJ Inspector General about mass monitoring data purchases
2022-09-22: The world is moving toward digital authoritarianism
2022-10-03: Sovereign RUnet: What does it mean?
2022-10-04: National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
2022-10-04: Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
2022-10-04: U.S. Government wants to limit China's Supercomputing and AI Firms
2022-10-04: Ulterior motives and recommender systems
2022-10-04: Digital people?
2022-10-06: Life Architect
2022-10-06: AI and matrix multiplication
2022-10-06: Imagen and video (Ars' cached video
2022-10-06: Harmful AI's liability status in Europe
2022-10-06: Why are there so many fake profiles on LinkedIn?
2022-10-06: DreamFusion: Stable Diffusion in 3-D
2022-10-06: Stable Diffusion in 3-D
2022-10-18: Cyborgs go small format
2022-10-18: ... and can come with an ethics statement, too!
2022-10-18: AI and chess championship
2022-10-18: IBM'S HR 3.0
2022-10-18: HCH defined
2022-10-18: Strong HCH
2022-10-18: Universality and consequentialism with HCH
2022-10-18: AI in the workplace
2022-10-20: Robots with shotguns discussed by Oakland city authorities
2022-10-20: Policy for deadly robotics?
2022-10-25: Gamification, Github experiments
2022-10-25: Mathematics, Computer Science, and the great controversies
2022-10-25: Navy wants swarms
2022-10-25: Doomscrolling 2022
2022-11-01: AI and artists
2022-11-03: Responsible AI has a burnout problem
2022-11-08: It didn't happen --- did it?
2022-11-08: Addicted to social media
2022-11-08: Making laws for autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Questions to answer about humanity's role in autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Trusting death to AI
2022-11-08: Ethicists sought for autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Participate in discussions about autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Turing-like machine in molecular computing
2022-11-08: Fashionable AI?
2022-11-15: FTX
2022-11-17: Malware and IDNs
2022-11-17: The woes of FTX
2022-11-17: Speech?
2022-11-17: Slaughterbots
2022-11-17: Lanius
2022-11-17: Lanius advertisement
2022-11-29: Yet another task humans need not do
2022-11-29: Another AI to NI analog?
2022-11-29: Even what you see can be a product of AI
2023-01-09: ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware
2023-01-10: A conversation with an AI emulation of Winston Churchill at https://beta.character.ai
2023-01-12: About GPT-3's first academic publication submission
2023-01-12: GPT's first academic publication submission
2023-01-12: Frank dissimulation
2023-01-12: Responsible technology?
2023-01-17: AI and the classroom
2023-01-17: Stable Diffusion Litigation: Ethics Imposed by Legal Diktat?
2023-01-17: The ethics of your voice, someone else's words (more detail on what various portions of this mean can be found here.)
2023-01-17: ChatGPT on CNET Articles Written by (another?) AI
2023-01-17: CNET Responds
2023-01-19: Follow up academic status of AI: ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
2023-01-19: Lengthy NY Times podcast/transcript on people discovering the power of ChatGPT: Did AI Just Get Too Smart?
2023-01-19: Eutopia or Dystopia? 'Imagine turning your Slack into a super-smart AI-powered chief of staff that can answer any questions you had about what’s going on.'
2023-01-19: Computer ethics in action? Shutterstock Leads the Way to Bring AI-generated Content to All
2023-01-19: AI and political lobbying
2023-01-19: Large Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists
2023-01-19: Atlas gets a grip
2023-01-24: The End of Programming
2023-01-24: What Do ChatGPT and AI-Based Automatic Program Generation mean for the Future of Software?
2023-01-24: AI's Jurassic Park Moment
2023-01-24: Is this some sort of solution? Human ID
2023-01-24: The AI Ethicist's Dirty Hands Problem
2023-01-24: Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?
2023-01-24: The future of StackOverflow? ChatGPT AI Generated Answers Temporarily Banned from StackOverflow
2023-01-24: Can AI Demonstrate Creativity?
2023-01-24: Ethical AI is not about AI
2023-01-24: Futility? Teaching in the Age of AI Means Getting Creative
2023-01-24: 'Ethics and Computer Science' as imagined by SlidesGPT.
2023-01-26: Lawyers defeat AI use in the courtroom
2023-01-31: AI generates art: who owns it?
2023-01-31: AI goes after bugs
2023-02-02: World Economic Forum Session on Brain Transparency
2023-02-02: AI now powers Teams
2023-02-02: Deep Face Live
2023-02-02: Pentesting, 2023
2023-02-07: My printer is extorting me
2023-02-07: Augmentation in the financial world
2023-02-07: Augmentation in the world of programming
2023-02-07: Google AI "principles", in light of Bard's announcement
2023-02-07: Bard
2023-02-07: Cognitive warfare extended to cyberspace
2023-02-07: Economic incentives promote change in labelling
2023-02-07: Voice changer beta
2023-02-07: Totalitarian states can participate in the AI revolution on their own terms
2023-02-07: High tech warfare becomes more affordable
2023-02-08: The Wall Street Journal: Uncertain Economy Spurs Growth in AI-Powered Office Automation
2023-02-14: Test of AI as fighter pilot
2023-02-14: Better without AI?
2023-02-14: MIT no AI license?
2023-02-14: Illusion Diffusion
2023-02-14: Future Perfect?
2023-02-14: The future of education: AI gamefies you
2023-02-14: New frontiers for human augmentation
2023-02-14: Forging ahead in protein design using AI
2023-02-14: Chase's view on Embedded responsible AI
2023-02-14: The future of education: AI gamefies you
2023-02-14: New frontiers for human augmentation
2023-02-14: Forging ahead in protein design using AI
2023-02-14: Chase's view on Embedded responsible AI
2023-02-16: Inside of ChatGPT?
2023-02-16: Generative AI, everywhere
2023-02-16: More text-to-image, courtesy of Google's Muse
2023-02-16: And, then, the furniture was moving...
2023-02-16: And, on cue, augmenting AI with computer-based tooling
2023-02-21: Regulation, laws, and the three laws of robotics?
2023-02-21: Robodogs controlled by soldiers' thoughts
2023-02-21: Taxi and other driving by remote operator
2023-02-21: Technological developments from the Ukranian-Russian conflict
2023-02-21: More on such technological progress
2023-02-21: The State Department on "Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy"
2023-02-21: Context of the State Department's Norms Document
2023-02-21: A ToM test, AI advances to intuitive capability of a human 9-year-old?
2023-02-21: Whispers of AI's modular future?
2023-02-21: Whisper.cpp code
2023-02-22: Scott Aaronson's take on GPT
2023-02-23: Build your own chatbot!
2023-02-23: Another chatbot construction technique
2023-02-23: The Copyright Office rescinds copyright granted on AI-generated art
2023-02-23: AI and the art of persuasion
2023-02-23: U.S. Navy takes delivery of ship that can operate autonomously for up to 30 days
2023-02-23: ChatGPT has already decreased my income security
2023-02-23: Magazine overwhelmed by submissions of AI-generated stories
2023-02-23: AI-generated 2023-02-28: Congress's considerations in banning TikTok
2023-02-28: More on TikTok
2023-02-28: Not just our students...
2023-02-28: Biological computers to keep up with silicon AI? Organoid intelligence (OI) enters the fray
2023-02-28: The Brave New World of Menu-making
2023-03-06: Vocaloids
2023-03-07: Treat ChatGPT as a student, lie to it, and observe results?
2023-03-07: Langchain
2023-03-07: Sumplete
2023-03-07: A short history of Sumplete?
2023-03-07: Human need not apply
2023-03-09: PALM-e
2023-03-09: The First Amendment and AI? Questions raised at the Supreme Court --- by a Justice of the Court
2023-03-09: Lawfare blogs on AI and the First Amendment
2023-03-21: Hands, also
2023-03-21: Mind probes advance
2023-03-21: Individualized instruction
2023-03-21: Still in the loop?
2023-03-21: AI, ethics, and industry
2023-03-21: Microsoft, ethics, and all that
2023-03-21: Microsoft, ethics, and all that
2023-03-21: GPT lists jobs from Hacker News
2023-03-23: Ask Sage, your friendly government advisor
2023-03-23: Richard Stallman, in Steve Jobs' voice
2023-03-23: A very strong Turing test
2023-03-23: Insurance decisions, made by AI
2023-03-23: Russian Weather, redux
2023-03-23: AI, on the law
2023-03-23: AI and plagiarism
2023-03-23: Jobs, of the future and the now
2023-03-23: More on jobs of the now and the future
2023-03-23: Workers Embrace ChatGPT Despite Their Bosses' Fears
2023-03-28: Clearview AI: More than a million searches performed for law enforcement
2023-03-28: Generative AI and humans in the workplace?
2023-03-28: GPT-4 and AGI, research from Microsoft
2023-03-28: OpenAI's mission statement
2023-03-28: Chronicle of Higher Education: Writing assignments in the age of GPT-4
2023-03-30: Pause Giant AI Experiments (Future of Life Institute)
2023-03-30: The Open Letter is not enough
2023-03-30: Pausing AI development is not enough: we need to shut it all
2023-03-30: Advances in robotic dog technology
2023-03-30: Interview with the author of "Battle for your Brain"
2023-03-30: The British governments blase approach
2023-03-30: Ars comprehensive collection of articles on pausing AI
2023-04-03: AI as CEO
2023-04-03: Trust transitivity?
2023-04-03: "Computer programming"/"learn to code" becomes "prompt engineering"?
2023-04-05: Our approach to AI safety
2023-04-05: If not an imitation game, how about a deviation one? (Also a term from game theory, amusingly enough)
2023-04-05: Intellectual property, in 2023?
2023-04-05: OpenAI and the future of education
2023-04-05: And, so what is privacy, anyway?
2023-04-05: Revolutionizing the economy?
2023-04-11: Auto-GPT
2023-04-11: Literally anything?
2023-04-11: The voice is no longer unique
2023-04-13: New York's Dystopian Developments
2023-04-13: GPS: On the run?
2023-04-13: New tools of the security trade
2023-04-13: Debugging in these days of AI
2023-04-13: Ars' version of debugging story
2023-04-13: Video in the age of AI
2023-04-13: We call it human progress, but we seem to actually be seeing far more AI progress (viz., AI Robotics
2023-04-18: LLMs and ethical dilemmas (Synopsi)
2023-04-18: Swatting as a service
2023-04-18: Augmentation, quite literally
2023-04-18: Security via robot
2023-04-18: German artist refuses photographic award
2023-04-20: A calculator for the mind (Leibniz's program completed?)
2023-04-20: Sovereignty and whose laws will rule the Internet?
2023-04-20: Public Interest Technologist
2023-05-15: Developer-centric search engine
2023-05-15: Can GPT pass my programming courses?
2023-05-15: The end of programming as we know it?
2023-05-16: OpenAI --> ClosedAI? (Hacker News discussion of this item)
2023-05-17: Geoffrey Hinton and his concerns about AI
2023-05-18: February 2023
2023-05-18: Explicability in neural networks
2023-05-18: Governments and the connected world
2023-05-18: AI says you failed
2023-05-23: NY Times: Surgeon General on Social Media
2023-05-23: Music without end? Blotterstream[ing]? (HackerNews discussion from the author)
2023-05-23: In my own handwriting?
2023-05-24: Governance of Superintelligence
2023-05-24: Displacement?
2023-05-24: Evolutionary dead-end?
2023-05-25: AI, on the forefront of scientific research
2023-05-25: OpenAI and regulation: a reversal of earlier pleas?
2023-05-25: It's not just a stochastic parrot?
2023-05-25: FISA, privacy, and pervasive surveillance
2023-05-25: Wall Street Journal calls for the abolition of "FISA court"
2023-05-25: AI? Superintelligence? Does not exist, and is not any sort of threat
2023-05-25: CACM asks: Should robots have rights or rites?
2023-05-25: UNESCO: AI and ethics
2023-05-25: EPIC's Public Voice Guidelines for AI
2023-05-25: AI in healthcare
2023-05-30: Eating disorders now handled by lackluster AI
2023-05-30: Another open letter on AI risk mitigation
2023-05-30: AI assistant?
2023-05-30: AI as artificial person?
2023-06-01: Was Bard trained on Gmail data?
2023-06-06: Turing test? No, we demand superior abilities!
2023-06-06: AI Ethics Governance
2023-06-06: Japan, AI, and copyright
2023-06-07: Sorting and AI; not a revolution but more of an evolution
2023-06-08: Robot gardening, as a Turing test
2023-06-08: Robot guide
2023-06-08: Surveillance society?
2023-06-08: Health records via GPT4?
2023-06-08: CNET and AI?
2023-06-08: Apple Vision Pro
2023-06-13: Nature and AI?
2023-06-13: ChatGPT takes the pulpit
2023-06-27: Your terminal, reimagined by AI
2023-06-27: Decision time for taxis
2023-06-27: John Maynard Keynes on the future of employment
2023-06-27: The triumph of "neuronics"?
2023-06-27: AI helps you form opinions
2023-06-29: National Geographic de-staffs
2023-06-29: Software development in 2023
2023-07-06: Police Are Requesting Self-Driving Car Footage for Video Evidence
2023-07-06: AI and programming, 2023
2023-07-06: Top 1% in creativity?
2023-07-06: ?
2023-07-11: Let's Encrypt Shortens Its Trust Path
2023-07-11: Root of trust?
2023-07-18: AI system allows cops to identify people by driving habits
2023-07-18: You cannot hide from us: "We will find you"
2023-07-18: WormGPT
2023-07-18: Tax preparers seek new revenue
2023-07-18: Irresponsible professional behavior?
2023-07-18: We are all in jeopardy of being replaced by machines?
2023-07-20: A different open letter on the future of AI
2023-07-20: The Beeb's version
2023-07-20: Stability AI: Most outsourced coders will be gone
2024-01-11: China cracks Apple's AirDrop service metadata
2024-01-11: FTC and X-Mode
2024-01-11: On the origins of X-Mode and Drunk Mode
2024-01-11: Blogging with GPT-4
2024-01-11: Rabbit for sale
2024-01-11: Duolingo, humans need not apply?
2024-01-11: AI and who will code the future?
2024-01-16: The non-human manner: AI, as a doctor? (the referenced paper is available at 2401.05654.pdf
2024-01-16: State of the art in voice cloning?
2024-01-16: AI goes to war?
2024-01-16: BBC Business: AI proliferation in the workplace
2024-01-16: Gatekeeping: Open source, AI, and the right to participate in the AI revolution
2024-01-16: World Economic Forum 2024: WEF recognizes a year of AI revolution
2024-01-16: World Economic Forum 2024 ponders the intersection of geopolitical tensions and technology
2024-01-16: The drive to replace natural intelligence with artificial intelligence
2024-01-17: In the Internet of Things, a battery passport
2024-01-17: Who owns this sentence?
2024-01-18: FUSUS, AI, and mapping the world
2024-01-18: Legal ruminations on AI (for more background, consult Congresswoman Salazar's webpage at the U.S. House of Representatives
2024-01-18: Buggy software accounts for problematic prosecutions
2024-01-23: Progress, robotically
2024-01-23: Robotics, on the work floor
2024-01-23: Robotics and auto assembly
2024-01-23: "Data Protection Review Court", by executive order?
2024-01-23: Members of the "Data Protection Review Court" named
2024-01-23: Executive order on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy" Artificial Intelligence
2024-01-24: DNA =?= facial recognition (archived version here)
2024-01-25: AI in the workplace: campus marketing in the AI revolution
2024-01-25: Professional ethics in action: new ethical guidelines for the use of AI in Public Relations
2024-01-25: AI looms in the world's cyberwars
2024-01-25: Lumiere, AI video generation from Google
2024-01-26: North Korea using generative AI for cyberattacks
2024-01-26: Connected Vehicle Interface
2024-01-26: Deception: Inducing malicious backdoors in LLMs
2024-01-29: Gambling, enforcing Australian social rules
2024-01-29: AI and facial estimation
2024-01-29: IDSCAN for bars
2024-01-29: Who is next at the bar?
2024-01-30: Reasonable expectation of privacy?
2024-01-30: An analysis of the NSA data broker scandal
2024-01-30: An "executive order" pursuant to The Defense Production Act? My, how our "industrial base" has changed...
2024-01-30: Want to understand your customers? Simulate them with AI!
2024-01-30: Not billions of old exposures rehashed, but a brand-new set of 1+ million patient records
2024-02-01: Scott Aronson discusses the relationship between the "Simulation Hypothesis" and Penrose's work in above link
2024-02-01: Penrose's best known work on the subject
2024-02-01: The ethics of hacking other people's equipment...
2024-02-01: Neuralink: the ethics of direct augmentation of humanity with digital capabilities
2024-02-01: Connectome Neuromorphics chips
2024-02-01: AI ethics in the commercial sphere?
2024-02-01: The race for the general robotic brain
2024-02-06: Better Call GPT
2024-02-06: Collaborating with an AI
2024-02-06: It was all fake?
2024-02-06: "Peer" review?
2024-02-08: Augmentation or displacement?
2024-02-08: All the music?
2024-02-09: The ethics of fast memory copying...
2024-02-09: Terms of service versus advertising copy?
2024-02-09: FCC: AI voices and robocalls do not mix
2024-02-09: Ethical aspirations for AI... (the model card for Goody2)
2024-02-13: The AI arms race
2024-02-13: AI and nuclear weapons
2024-02-13: AI arms races, from Foreign Policy magazine
2024-02-13: Open source AI: at the beck and call of government?
2024-02-13: Deepfakes: intellectual property?
2024-02-13: From Digital Sovereignty to AI Sovereignty?
2024-02-13: ACM offers SWOT advice
2024-02-13: The Autonomy Economy: Who owns its intellectual property?
2024-02-14: OpenAI "disrupts" state actors?
2024-02-14: Apple, IOS, and European gaming
2024-02-14: USPTO issues guidance for AI-assisted inventions
2024-02-15: Propanganda operations and AI?
2024-02-15: Government sponsors research by AI?
2024-02-15: Gemini status at Google
2024-02-15: Digital twinning in the large: Google's Gemini
2024-02-15: The Report on Gemini 1.5Pro
2024-02-15: Gemini 1.5 Pro, multimodal at the movies
2024-02-15: Gemini 1.5 Pro, multimodal programming chops
2024-02-15: Abraham Lincoln's patent
2024-02-15: An analysis of Lincoln's work
2024-02-15: An analysis of the social and political context of Lincoln's patent
2024-02-16: Blame the AI?
2024-02-16: A new Turing-type tests: Is this natural intelligence or is it AI?
2024-02-19: AI and health care
2024-02-19: AI, sovereignty, and Google
2024-02-20: Brain implants: cooperative computing or invasive autonomy eradication?
2024-02-20: University of Michigan pioneers new markets
2024-02-20: Whose responsibility is it: the AI, the company, or ...?
2024-02-20: Sovereignty, crime, and privacy, all mixed into a single trans-European case
2024-02-20: AI and robocalls, 2024
2024-02-20: A base level of crime
2024-02-22: Reddit trains AI
2024-02-22: The business of cyber-intrusion in the world's largest nation
2024-02-27: Courts consider content moderation and First Amendment issues
2024-02-28: White Houses issues executive order on American personal data
2024-02-29: Change of control issue
2024-02-29: Vending machine, et tu?
2024-03-05: Natural intelligence attempts to grok AI's grokking 2024-03-05: Software developers, AI, and the future of coding
2024-03-05: P-Value dilemmas
2024-03-05: Bots account for more than 12 percent of "upwork" applications
2024-03-05: Nvidia CEO predicts coding's demise as a profession
2024-03-06: Prompt engineering was never a viable career path
2024-03-07: AI written, AI read
2024-03-07: Grading with AI
2024-03-07: The current work environment for coding: more QA, less coding time
2020-03-02: 2020: Rome Call for AI Ethics
2024-03-07: 2024: The current status
2024-03-19: Peer review, et tu? (The paper is here)
2024-03-19: AI schedules your day of studies
2024-03-20: AlphaGo revolutionized human play of Go
2024-03-21: The Not-so-true People Search Network
2024-03-21: People Search Problems?
2024-03-26: Simply News, AI-style
2024-03-26: AI: Open Source for Everyone, or Professionalization? The Cathedral and the Bazaar in 2024
2024-03-27: Plenty of partners in data
2024-03-28: AI also experiences "memes"
2024-03-28: Gaussian avatars get better all the time
2024-03-28: Digital reconstruction gets better all the time
2024-03-28: Specialized news site for digital reconstruction/twinning: RadianceFields.com
2024-03-28: From LLM to VLM (visual-language models): Robotics made easy by large-scale visual data?
2024-03-28: Governments puzzle over how to control AI
2024-03-28: U.S. Government Mandates Chief AI Officers
2024-03-28: Department of Homeland Security embraces AI
2024-04-01: AI apocalypse is only possible, not inevitable
2024-04-02: XZ timeline
2024-04-02: Gentoo developers work on the XZ issue
2024-04-02: Umm...
2024-04-02: Magic Security Dust!
2024-04-02: Vulnerabilities in the python world
2024-04-02: Analysis of the larger landscape around XZ-like work
2024-04-04: Hacking free software song
2024-04-04: Hacking free software song
2024-04-04: And the last ...
2024-04-04: Protonmail criticizes Microsoft's Outlook
2024-04-09: AIOS: LLM Agent Operating System (background paper)
2024-04-09: Autonomous weapon systems and targeting civilians
2024-04-09: The ethics of automated warfare and artificial intelligence
2024-04-09: Generative Artificial Intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money
2024-04-09: Shortcut to programming chops?
2024-04-09: Compute pi using a monte carlo method
2024-04-11: NIST's AI Risk Management Framework
2024-04-11: Suno: MIT License
2024-04-11: In the race to pervasive AI, Google's latest offerings
2024-04-11: Corporations behaving badly: IBM's struggles
2024-04-11: Google Vides for the workplace?
2024-04-11: Foundational ideas for Google Vids
2024-04-11: Technology, war, and hackers
2024-04-11: Kellog-Briand comes to Military Use of AI?
2024-04-11: Verification and autonomous weapon bans? (A Washington Treaty 100 years later?)
2024-04-11: Texas: mass testing of exams graded by AI
2024-04-12: As usual, the medical industry fails the basics in the Information Age
2024-04-16: Really bad interface design: Wrong couple divorced when lawyer pushes the wrong button
2024-04-16: Warfare in the Age of AI
2024-04-16: Stop Killer Robots
2024-04-16: Stop autonomous weapons
2024-04-16: Universities and and AI policies
2024-04-16: Slaughterbots
2024-04-18: Did AI and copyright issues just become much more complex?
2024-04-18: CERN for AI?
2024-04-18: Ethics and law intersect at the European Commission
2024-04-18: AI and eye assessments
2024-04-18: A race to extinction?
2024-04-18: VASA-1
2024-04-18: Government meets AI, AI wins?
2024-08-29: Llama usage doubled through July 2024
2024-08-29: Just how many humans can do this? How long would it take?
2024-08-29: Durov: who is responsible for what? Common carrier status does not apply to the uncooperative?
2024-08-29: Stephen Wolfram on Ethics and AI
2024-08-29: Chatbots offer police a new way to write reports
2024-09-03: Human Brain Organoid Bioprocessors Available for Rent
2024-09-05: Fake listeners generate a lot of revenue for fake streamer
2024-09-05: AI checkers force kids to write like robots --- to avoid being called a robot
2024-09-05: Perplexity on our discussion of the week
2024-09-05: Instructing Claude: as we discussed in class today, here are the instructions given to Claude to guide its interactions with customers/consumers; particularly note " If it is asked to assist with tasks involving the expression of views held by a significant number of people, Claude provides assistance with the task regardless of its own views." Note that it is a very anthropomorhic formulation, "its own views".
2024-09-10: Crystal ball or just a gimmick? (Blog about 539)
2024-09-10: Turing Test Cubed?
2024-09-10: UN: HDR
2024-09-12: A portion of Justice Goldberg's concurrence in Griswold
2024-09-12: BBC: The People making AI sound more human
2024-09-12: Still trying to find the role for humans in an Age of AI: "The Rise of the Verifier Economy"
2024-09-12: Crowdstrike: quality not a concern
2024-09-12: OpenAI introduces o1
2024-09-17: Cengage and student AI
2024-09-17: AI becomes the classroom? And only 27,000 pounds per year... (background on the GCSE)
2024-09-17: Society of Mind, 2024 edition (a play on Marvin Minsky's famous book title)
2024-10-01: Teacher gives up because of AI
2024-10-01: AI defeats captcha systems
2024-10-01: Hugging Face surpasses 1 million models hosted
2024-10-01: AI and the uncanny valley
2024-10-01: Kurzweil and utopia via AI
2024-10-03: The nature of science
2024-10-03: Agents for everything
2024-10-08: 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Hinton and Hopfield
2024-10-15: Whose laws apply?
2024-10-15: 2024: AI on the battlefield
2024-10-15: Does this restaurant exist?
2024-10-15: Anthropic announces new policy
2024-10-15: Palantir CISO Joins OpenAI
2024-10-15: IEEE: AI and inventions
2024-10-29: Claude's thoughts on the replication crisis
2024-10-31: The debate continues: More on p-values
2024-10-31: Another spoof website EFF's statement on the website
2024-11-05: The head of Anthropic's vision for AI
2024-11-07: Anthropic partners up with Palantir to Bring Calude to AWS for US Intelligence and Defense Operations
2024-11-12: Windows Server Surprise
2024-11-12: About ARC testing
2024-11-12: ARC tests
2024-11-12: Waymo One, now in L.A.
2024-11-12: AI, contracting
2024-11-14: Surprising? If so, then is there some hidden influence -or- was this "genuine" in some weak sense?
2024-11-14: Professional responsibilities taken on by AI?
2024-11-14: Manipulation, by AI?
2024-11-19: As AI advances, the dilemma of the professions and their professional responsibilities (Another link)
2024-11-19: Labor problems, resolved? (Another link)
2024-11-19: Intelligence at scale: a Manhattan Project for AGI/ASI
2024-11-21: AI replication, 2024
2024-11-21: Turing test, AI art versus natural intelligence art
2025-01-09: I was wrong about the ethics crisis
2025-01-09: Ukraine's First All Robot Assault Force Just Won Its First Battle
2025-01-09: Arizona is getting an online charter school taught entirely by AI (see also Gizmodo's take)
2025-01-09: Automating the search for artificial life (see also Conway's Game of Life)
2025-01-09: Discussions of machine versus living intelligence need more clarity
2025-01-14: The Age of AI comes to the White House
2025-01-14: An array of AI, for free (Contrast to, say, Eliza)
2025-01-14: ARC prize
2025-01-28: AI Will Write Complex Laws for You
2025-01-28: ClearView AI and a case in Ohio
2025-01-28: All digital data is training data for AI
2025-01-28: Simply News
2025-01-28: Waymo safer than humans?
2025-01-28: Is the AI alignment problem intractable?
2025-01-28: Whose data is it? What is the threshold between data and control?
2025-01-28: Claude and the power to cite
2025-01-30: AI and nuclear weapons, in 2025
2025-01-30: Government by ChatGPT/
2025-01-30: Feds eager to govern via AI
2025-01-30: USAID adopts AI
2025-01-30: More on ChatGPT Gov
2025-02-04: Polish Justice Minister's alleged use of NSO Group malware
2025-02-04: When "hacking back" is done via government?
2025-02-04: Blogging on the future of the profession
2025-02-04: Whose laws apply: intellectual property as an international exercise?
2025-02-04: Proposed bill's text
2025-02-04: Surreptitious use of AI in the workplace
2025-02-04: Criminalizing the internet? From TikTok to DeepSeek
2025-02-04: From Senator Hawley's website
2025-02-04: The Internet, as conceived as an exercise in AI creativity
2025-02-04: 'Shuhanese Culture'?
2025-02-04: Deep fakes get ever better
2025-02-04: Automating the process of science?
2025-02-06: Privacy and the IRS
2025-02-06: House Judiciary Committee looks into IRS use of AI
2025-02-06: Let's Encrypt cites privacy concerns for ceasing to send expiration notices
2025-02-06: 7-zip exploit
2025-02-06: The AI race is a swift one indeed
2025-02-06: AI and research, a few months ago
2025-02-06: AI and research, today
2025-02-06: Researchers create open rival to OpenAI's closed model
2025-02-06: The Ethics of Imbuing AI with Agency
2025-02-11: U.S. Constitution
2025-02-11: AI Summit Summary
2025-02-11: Anthropic's thoughts on the current Paris AI Summit
2025-02-11: Vice President Vance's address to the AI Summit (NY Times coverage)
2025-02-11: Vice President Vance's address to the AI Summit (Financial Times coverage)
2025-02-11: Sam Altman's observations
2025-02-11: Anthropic's new economic index
2025-02-11: Britons hunting for jobs are facing challenges
2025-02-11: Anthropic's Claude's thoughts on free speech for AI
2025-02-13: Agency for AI
2025-02-13: Is this also a censorship issue?
2025-02-13: Amazon looking forward to robot deployment
2025-02-13: The first robot "employee"?
2025-02-13: The second?
2025-02-18: Copyright Office
2025-02-18: New York Times adopts AI tools
2025-02-18: News organizations versus Cohere's AI
2025-02-20: Scientists 10 years, AI two days?
2025-02-20: Economist: The dangers of relying on AI
2025-02-20: Google: no more tracking cookies — fingerprinting is better
2025-02-20: AI augments IOT
2025-02-20: AI at the Technion
2025-02-20: Validation through falsification?
2025-02-20: The paper
2025-02-20: UK demands backdoor into Apple's environment
2025-02-20: Copyright win for Thomson-Reuters
2025-02-25: NVIDIA CEO calls for sovereign AI (link also found above)
2025-02-25: Who should take the liabiliity?
2025-02-25: AI not responsible, airline is?
2025-02-25: State Department's ideas on responsible military use of AI
2025-02-25: North Korea and a massive theft of cryptocurrency?
2025-02-25: Ransomware drives bankruptcy
2025-02-25: Property in the Age of AI
2025-02-25: Copyright and AI
2025-02-25: Chegg complains about AI cheating (also at Reuters' more detailed version)
2025-02-27: Wallbleed: whose hacking is criminal
2025-03-18: From podcasting the news to printing it
2025-03-18: Alignment, evaluations, and cognizance
2025-03-18: Another employment conundrum
2025-03-27: Science and not science
2025-03-27: Horton's original article
2025-03-27: Critical reasoning capabilities eroded by AI use?
2025-03-27: Skeptic to (reluctant) advocate
2025-03-27: Your data, for sale?
2025-03-27: Knowledge work declining?
2025-04-01: CERN scientists find entanglement in the large
2025-04-01: I used to teach students, now I catch ChatGPT cheats
2025-04-01: Arxiv link
2025-04-01: GrapheneOS
2025-04-01: NIST: AI and trust
2025-04-03: Claude for education
2025-04-03: Fast Flux: the way the Internet was designed to work?
2025-04-03: Understanding the thoughts of AI
2025-04-08: AI and induced cognitive decline
2025-04-08: Anthropic and copyright
2025-04-08: UK, Apple, and encryption
2025-04-08: North Koreans show up in the oddest places
2025-04-08: The art of legal simulation
2025-04-10: CALEA's problems and possible fixes
2025-04-10: CALEA's disaster
2025-04-10: Legislating more effective spying
