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Former Google ethical AI team co-lead Timnit Gebru exposes unethical AI by Google & Big Tech

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On this special episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former co-leader of Google’s ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru, who is the co-founder of Black in AI. She discusses a toxic work culture within Google, where staff walkouts had occurred at the start of her tenure on the team, why she left what many would consider a dream job, the development of unethical AI by Google, unethical practices by other Big Tech companies such as Facebook and Amazon … Read More >Former Google ethical AI team co-lead Timnit Gebru exposes unethical AI by Google & Big Tech

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Killer drone hunts soldiers without being told to

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Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos reveal how a killer drone hunted down and engaged humans without instruction for the first time, Amazon’s plan to turn your WiFi over to the public, and why the devastating drought in the western US will affect the entire country. Richard Vevers from the Ocean Agency talks about the health of Earth’s oceans. … Read More >Killer drone hunts soldiers without being told to

Categories Op-ed

Rise of the killer robot: An autonomous drone hunted down a human target in Libya last year & no one is talking about it

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The prospect of AI-led warfare is inching ever closer if events in Libya last year are anything to go by. Despite calls for a ban, killer robots present a terrifying, apocalyptic vision of lawless conflict in the future. … Read More >Rise of the killer robot: An autonomous drone hunted down a human target in Libya last year & no one is talking about it

Categories World

Not even wildlife can go undetected: Australia trains AI road cameras for KOALA ‘facial recognition’

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Researchers at an Australian university have been granted thousands of dollars from the government to work on AI-based devices that would help identify individual koalas crossing the roads in the country. … Read More >Not even wildlife can go undetected: Australia trains AI road cameras for KOALA ‘facial recognition’

Categories Middle East

IDF brags of waging ‘first AI war,’ lending credence to view that Gaza serves as testing ground for Israel’s fighting techniques

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The 11-day flare-up between Israel and Hamas was dubbed the “first AI war” by Israel’s military, which bragged about using advanced computing technologies to sift through the staggering amount of intelligence it collects on Gaza. … Read More >IDF brags of waging ‘first AI war,’ lending credence to view that Gaza serves as testing ground for Israel’s fighting techniques

Categories Russia

‘Weapons of the future’: Russia has launched mass production of autonomous high-tech WAR ROBOTS, Defense Minister Shoigu announces

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The Russian military will soon be equipped with autonomous war robots capable of acting independently on the battlefield, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said, adding that Moscow has launched mass production of such machines. … Read More >‘Weapons of the future’: Russia has launched mass production of autonomous high-tech WAR ROBOTS, Defense Minister Shoigu announces

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EU data protection watchdog says facial recognition should be banned due to ‘deep intrusion’ into people’s private lives

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Facial recognition should be banned from Europe’s public spaces, the EU’s independent data protection authority has said, just days after the bloc’s executive branch proposed a new bill allowing the partial use of the technology. … Read More >EU data protection watchdog says facial recognition should be banned due to ‘deep intrusion’ into people’s private lives