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Daily Archives: July 16, 2021
SecDef Austin Speaks at AI Technology Summit
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivered remarks at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s 2021 Global Emerging Technology Summit.
Austin discusses some of the changes that he sees coming to the Department of Defense with respect to artificial intelligence, and the way they represent changes to some old ways of thinking. Read More
AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’
The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors.
Dr Kate Darling is a research specialist in human-robot interaction, robot ethics and intellectual property theory and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. In her new book, The New Breed, she argues that we would be better prepared for the future if we started thinking about robots and artificial intelligence (AI) like animals. Read More
Inside Facebook’s Data Wars
Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users’ high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.
One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.
Brandon Silverman, CrowdTangle’s co-founder and chief executive, assembled dozens of employees on a video call to tell them that they were being broken up. CrowdTangle, which had been running quasi-independently inside Facebook since being acquired in 2016, was being moved under the social network’s integrity team, the group trying to rid the platform of misinformation and hate speech. Some CrowdTangle employees were being reassigned to other divisions, and Mr. Silverman would no longer be managing the team day to day.
The announcement, which left CrowdTangle’s employees in stunned silence, was the result of a yearlong battle among Facebook executives over data transparency, and how much the social network should reveal about its inner workings. Read More
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