Amazon delivery drivers say surveillance cameras installed in their vans have made them lose income for reasons beyond their control.
In early 2021, Amazon installed AI-powered cameras in the delivery vans at one of its depots in Los Angeles. Derek, a delivery driver at the facility, said the camera in his van started to incorrectly penalize him whenever cars cut him off, an everyday occurrence in Los Angeles traffic.
“Maintain safe distance,” the camera installed above his seat would say when a car cut him off. That data would be sent to Amazon, and would be used to evaluate his performance that week and determine whether he got a bonus. Read More
Daily Archives: September 22, 2021
DeepMind tells Google it has no idea how to make AI less toxic
To be fair, neither does any other lab
Opening the black box. Reducing the massive power consumption it takes to train deep learning models. Unlocking the secret to sentience. These are among the loftiest outstanding problems in artificial intelligence. Whoever has the talent and budget to solve them will be handsomely rewarded with gobs and gobs of money.
But there’s an even greater challenge stymieing the machine learning community, and it’s starting to make the world’s smartest developers look a bit silly. We can’t get the machines to stop being racist, xenophobic, bigoted, and misogynistic. Read More
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Student ActivityMonitoring Software
The past few years have seen widespread adoption of software that monitors students in K-12 schools across the country. These tools provide teachers and schools with the ability to filter web content, monitor students’ search engine queries and browsing history, view students’ email, messaging, and social media content, view the contents of their screens in real time, and other monitoring functionality. Fueled in part by pandemic-era remote learning needs, schools have adopted this technology with the aim of measuring and improving student engagement and keeping students safe online.
Yet, despite their popularity, these tools raise critical red flags for student equity and privacy protection. Read More
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