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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

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This fuzziness can be challenging for any autonomous system navigating the uncertainty of a human world—such as Alexa reacting to the wrong conversations, or self-driving cars being stymied by. All countries involved in the autonomous weapons systems (AWS) debate at the United Nations have stated that AWS must follow international law.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Girardi says he hopes that Chile will be an example for the world and that other nations and international agencies will adopt comparable regulation. Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. Spain’s new.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. Broadcasting a false distress signal over maritime radio is a violation of international code and, in the United States, a federal Class D felony. Others said it sounded like Nate Libby, a dockside worker. A 2020 U.S.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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There have been a bunch of high-profile examples of robot misuse recently (that we’re not going to link to), and the companies building the robots being misused have taken it personally—as they should, because those misused robots are very easy to identify. It’s not about military robots per se , and that’s made quite clear in the letter.

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

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Are you working with internal teams who have been using these kinds of datasets? Xiang: In my personal opinion, I think with everything AI ethics related, it’s going to be impossible to be purists. We’ll ultimately see what shakes out in terms of the courts in terms of whether this is going to be okay from a legal perspective.

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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

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In 2005, faulty software for the US $176 million baggage-handling system at Denver International Airport forced the whole thing to be scrapped. Most recently, OpenAI launched ChatGPT , a large-language-model chatbot that is capable of writing code with a little prompting in a conversational manner.

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The Tesla Autopilot Excuse: How EV ignorance created the perfect storm for a misinformation nightmare

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This stunt caught the eye of both national and international media as well, and by this time, the narrative was set: Teslas can drive themselves without a driver, and Autopilot could kill. Years of inaccurate reports tend to do that to a person. And in the case of the Tesla Texas crash, this was certainly the case.

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