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Negative Human Rights as a Basis for Long-term AI Safety and Regulation

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

If autonomous AI systems are to be reliably safe in novel situations, they will need to incorporate general principles guiding them to recognize and avoid harmful behaviours. Such principles may need to be supported by a binding system of regulation, which would need the underlying principles to be widely accepted. They should also be specific enough for technical implementation. Drawing inspiration from law, this article explains how negative human rights could fulfil the role of such principles and serve as a foundation both for an international regulatory system and for building technical safety constraints for future AI systems. This article appears in the AI & Society track.


Comparative study on Judgment Text Classification for Transformer Based Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This work involves the usage of various NLP models to predict the winner of a particular judgment by the means of text extraction and summarization from a judgment document. These documents are useful when it comes to legal proceedings. One such advantage is that these can be used for citations and precedence reference in Lawsuits and cases which makes a strong argument for their case by the ones using it. When it comes to precedence, it is necessary to refer to an ample number of documents in order to collect legal points with respect to the case. However, reviewing these documents takes a long time to analyze due to the complex word structure and the size of the document. This work involves the comparative study of 6 different self-attention-based transformer models and how they perform when they are being tweaked in 4 different activation functions. These models which are trained with 200 judgement contexts and their results are being judged based on different benchmark parameters. These models finally have a confidence level up to 99% while predicting the judgment. This can be used to get a particular judgment document without spending too much time searching relevant cases and reading them completely.


Data Scientist III - Meijer

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As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community! Meijer Rewards * Weekly pay * Scheduling flexibility * Paid parental leave * Paid education assistance * Care.com/back-up care assistance * Team member discount * Development programs for advancement and career growth Please review the job profile below and apply today! The Data Science team at Meijer leads the strategy, development and integration of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Meijer. Data Scientists on the team will drive customer loyalty, digital conversion, and system efficiencies by delivering innovative data driven solutions. This role works directly with product development, merchandising, marketing, operations, ITS, ecommerce, and vendor partners. **Position follows hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in office, Thursday-Friday remote.** What You'll Be Doing * Deliver against the overall data science strategy to drive in-store and digital merchandising, marketing, customer loyalty, and operational performance * Partner with product development to define requirements which meet system and customer experience needs for data science projects * Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Operations and customer insights to understand the journey that will be improved with the data science deliverables * Deliver end-to-end data science pipelines including custom algorithms, statistical models, machine learning and artificial intelligence functions to meet partner needs * Partner with product development and technology teams to deploy pipelines into production MLOps environment following Safe Agile methodology * Drive adoption and usage of analytical products and models * Anticipate future business needs and identify opportunities that make substantial difference for organization, and lead the development of analytics initiatives * Responsible to define, document and follow best practices for ML/AI development at Meijer * Own communication with data consumers (internal and external) to ensure they understand the data science products, have the proper training, and are following the best practices in application of data science products * Define and analyze Key Performance Indicators to monitor the overall health and measure value of the data products * Identify and scope, in conjunction with IT, the architecture of systems and environment needs to ensure that data science systems can deliver against strategy * Build and maintain relationships with key partners, suppliers and industry associations and continue to advance data science capabilities, knowledge and impact * This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required What You'll Bring With You * Advanced Degree (MA/MS, PhD) in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field * Certifications: Azure Data Science Associate, Azure AI, Safe Agile * 4+ years of relevant data science experience in an applied role – preferable w/in retail, logistics, supply chain or CPG * Demonstrated strength in using: Python, Databricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Service, SAS, R, SQL, PySpark, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AutoTS, Prophet, NLTK * Experience with Azure Cloud technologies including Azure DevOps, Azure Synapse, MLOps, GitHub * Experience working with large datasets and developing ML/AI systems such as: natural language processing, speech/text/image recognition, supervised and unsupervised learning models, forecasting and/or econometric time series models * Proactive and action oriented * Ability to collaborate with, and present to internal and external partners * Able to learn company systems, processes and tools, and identify opportunities to improve * Detail oriented and organized * Ability to meet production deadlines * Strong communications, interpersonal and organizational skills * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Understanding of intellectual property rights, compliance and enforcement


Calls for stricter UK oversight of workplace AI amid fears for staff rights

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Campaigners, trade unions and MPs are calling for stricter oversight of the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, amid growing concerns about its effect on staff rights. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is holding a half-day conference on Tuesday to highlight the challenges of ensuring workers are treated fairly, as what it calls "management by algorithm" becomes increasingly prevalent. "Making work more rewarding, making it more satisfying, and crucially making it safer and fairer: these are all the possibilities that AI offers us," said Mary Towers, an employment lawyer who runs a TUC project on AI at work. "But what we're saying is, we're at a really important juncture, where the technology is developing so rapidly, and what we have to ask ourselves is, what direction do we want that to take, and how can we ensure that everyone's voice is heard?" The TUC has highlighted the growing use of employee surveillance. The Royal Mail chief executive, Simon Thompson, recently conceded some postal workers' movements were minutely tracked using handheld devices, with the data sused for performance management, for example.


Magic and Hallucinations? Considering ChatGPT in eDiscovery

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Question: Can you comment on early usage of GPT in eDiscovery platforms? Does the Hallucination factor limit its use in the Enterprise where defensibility is critical? Answer: One vendor announced an early beta use just before LegalWeek and provided a video demo. The vendor did not directly reveal what approach they were using to support question-answering on an e-discovery corpus (such as the Enron corpus they use in the demo). Thus we could not tell whether they were training the model on the eDiscovery corpus directly to create a "private" model or whether they were taking Bing's "search-then-synthesize" approach of using the question to search for documents, then have GPT read the documents and answer the question based on this reading.


Your brilliant ChatGPT idea could leave you with an eye-watering legal bill – here's why

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ChatGPT has cemented itself as the AI-powered tool that'll help you with almost anything. Everyone and their mama has been talking about the chatbot and to no surprise. It explains, expands, summarises, creates (I use that word loosely here), and seems to know much about a vast range of products. However, users should keep in mind that if a lawsuit may come their way, completely at their own expense. Most people don't read the terms and conditions when they pop up on whatever app, site, or service they're using.


Who Owns the Copyright to AI Creations? How Does AI Copyright Work?

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So, if an AI makes something, who do we attribute it to? The person who initiated the prompts? Or the sources the AI used? Works are original when they are independently created by a human author and have a minimal degree of creativity. In this incident, British nature photographer David Slater set himself up between 2008 and 2011 to befriend a wild Celebes crested macaques troop.


A Review of Speech-centric Trustworthy Machine Learning: Privacy, Safety, and Fairness

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

ABSTRACT Speech-centric machine learning systems have revolutionized a number of leading industries ranging from transportation and healthcare to education and defense, fundamentally reshaping how people live, work, and interact with each other. However, recent studies have demonstrated that many speech-centric ML systems may need to be considered more trustworthy for broader deployment. Specifically, concerns over privacy breaches, discriminating performance, and vulnerability to adversarial attacks have all been discovered in ML research fields. In order to address the above challenges and risks, a significant number of efforts have been made to ensure these ML systems are trustworthy, especially private, safe, and fair. In this paper, we conduct the first comprehensive survey on speech-centric trustworthy ML topics related to privacy, safety, and fairness. In addition to serving as a summary report for the research community, we highlight several promising future research directions to inspire researchers who wish to explore further in this area.


Who Owns a Song Created by A.I.? - The New York Times

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What is owed to the creators of the original material? The cartoonist Sarah Anderson, who is part of the lawsuit, told The New York Times that she believed artists should opt in to having their work included in such data, and should be compensated for it. Getty Images is also suing Stability AI in Britain and the United States for what it calls "brazen infringement" of millions of photos. Getty argued that the theft is particularly offensive because it has agreements to license data for machine learning. Stability AI has not yet responded to the complaints.


EU: ChatGPT spurs debate about AI regulation – DW – 04/15/2023

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Garante, the Italian data protection authority, apparently jumped the gun at the end of March when it imposed a temporary ban on ChatGPT, a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate texts that seem as if they were created by humans, and computer games. The watchdog was less concerned by the use of AI -- the simulation of human intelligence by computer systems -- than by breaches of data protection legislation. Garante then told the Microsoft Corp-backed company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, that it would have to be more transparent with its users about how their data were processed. It also said that the US company had to obtain permission from users if their data were to be used to further develop the software -- that is, to help it learn -- and that access to minors had to be filtered. In a press release, the Italian authority said that the ban would be lifted if OpenAI met these conditions by April 30.