March 29 (Reuters) – Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.
U.S. officials are increasingly voicing concerns about the security risks behind TikTok.
Arkansas filed a lawsuit against Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta, and two lawsuits against TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance over concerns about how the platforms are affecting children.
“We have to hold […]
The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recommended a new national human rights law to reduce potential discrimination caused by artificial intelligence (AI).
In a report titled ‘Rights […]
Ministers from Australia’s federal government have agreed to a deal with their state and territory counterparts to include digital credentials in the new national digital identity system, reports the Australian Financial […]
Australia’s efforts to get digital IDs into people’s hands shows, even winning over snarky journalists with the progress.
Almost 80 percent of drivers in the state of New South Wales have […]
Konami Gaming has licensed its facial recognition technology for use in Australian gambling machines, according to Casino Beats.
Independent Gaming, a manufacturer based in New South Wales, maintains more than 5,000 […]
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Credit ratings play an important role in international capital markets as they provide creditors with assessments of a debtor’s relative risk of default. Nonetheless, inaccurate ratings can impact the cost of borrowing and the stability of the international financial system, as […]
Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30bn images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users’ […]
In an outstanding piece of political-theoretical writing, titled ‘The Threat of Big Other’ (with its play on George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’) Shoshana Zuboff, succinctly addresses the main issues of her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism– The Fight for a Human Future […]
