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Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsCanadaCanadian PoliticsMP Rachael Thomas was the first Conservative to be expelled during a raucous question period on TuesdayPublished May 01, 2024 • Last updated May 01, 2024 • 4 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.Conservative MP Rachael Thomas rises during question period before being asked to leave the House of Commons by the Speaker, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian PressArticle contentOTTAWA — Conservative MP Rachael Thomas challenged House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus on Wednesday for kicking her out of the…
The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice. The case is yet another reason why everyone — not just politicians and celebrities — should be concerned about this increasingly powerful deep-fake technology, experts say.“Everybody is vulnerable to attack, and anyone can do the attacking,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who focuses on digital forensics and misinformation. Here’s what to know about some of the latest uses of AI to cause…
Exploring the Role of University AI DetectorsUniversity AI detectors are academia’s supposedly “foolproof” method to even the playing field, but they’re not exactly doing the best job.Anyone currently in higher education will have their own opinions on this piece of software, I’m sure.It seems that even those who aren’t using ChatGPT (or any other generator) are being penalised.What Are AI Detectors?AI detectors are AI systems that are trained to recognise a wide array of abnormalities or patterns within video and text.So, depending on your writing style, you could easily be mistaken for a bot.Detecting the Use of AIThese university AI…
AI content creation tools have become much more accessible and mainstream since the release of ChatGPT and Gemini (previously known as Bard) by Google. Since then, we have seen an accelerated uptake in the use of AI tools – and especially in AI content generation. Revisiting an article we wrote pre-ChatGPT, we have reassessed our original list of tools to road-test AI content generators and see how their output compares. How ChatGPT Is Changing The Content Industry OpenAI has led the development of large language models and generative AI. In May 2020, GPT-3 was launched, which was a huge leap…
Today, it is easier than ever to create exploitative deepfakes depicting women in a sexual manner without their consent – and the recently negotiated EU directive combating violence against women could finally bring justice for victims by holding the AI model developers criminally accountable. Deepfakes refer to AI-generated voices, images, or videos produced without consent, and the most popular type of deepfake, comprising at least 96% of instances, is pornographic. Women and girls make up 99% of victims. Many of these victims will remain unaware that they have been the subject of a deepfake for months after the fact, during…
Our Futures Program, launched in 2023, aims to guide humanity towards the beneficial outcomes made possible by transformative technologies. This year, as part of that program, we are opening two new funding opportunities to support research into the ways that artificial intelligence can be harnessed safely to make the world a better place. The first request for proposals (RFP) calls for papers evaluating and predicting the impact of AI on the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to poverty, healthcare, energy and climate change. The second RFP calls for designs of trustworthy global mechanisms or institutions to govern advanced…
This is only one of several ways that AI could go wrong. See our overview of Catastrophic AI Scenarios for more. Also see our Introductory Resources on AI Risks. You have probably heard lots of concerning things about AI. One trope is that AI will turn us all into paperclips. Top AI scientists and CEOs of the leading AI companies signed a statement warning about “risk of extinction from AI“. Wait – do they really think AI will turn us into paper clips? No, no one thinks that. Will we be hunted down by robots that look suspiciously like Arnold Schwarzenegger? Again,…
Introduction AI safety has become a key subject with the recent progress of AI. Debates on the topic have helped outline desirable properties a safe AI should follow, such as provenance (where does the model come from), confidentiality (how to ensure the confidentiality of prompts or of the model weights), or transparency (how to know what model is used on data). While such discussions have been necessary to define what properties such models should have, they are not sufficient, as there are few technical solutions to actually guarantee that those properties are implemented in production. See our other post with…
As the White House takes steps to target powerful foundation models and the UK convenes experts to research their potential risks, Germany, France, and Italy have proposed exempting foundation models from regulation entirely. This is presumably to protect European companies like Aleph Alpha and Mistral AI from what they proclaim is overregulation. This approach is problematic for several reasons. AI is not like other products Firstly, the argument that no other product is regulated at the model level – rather than the user-facing system level – is unconvincing. Companies such as OpenAI charge for access to their models and very…
The table below provides an analysis of several transatlantic policy proposals on how to regulate the most advanced AI systems. The analysis shows that the recent non-paper circulated by Italy, France, and Germany (as reported by Euractiv) includes the fewest provisions with regards to foundation models or general purpose AI systems, even falling below the minimal standard that was set in a recent U.S. White House Executive Order. While the non-paper proposes a voluntary code of conduct, it does not include any of the safety obligations required by previous proposals, including by the Council’s own adopted position. Moreover, the non-paper…