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Deploying a multidisciplinary strategy with embedded responsible AI
The risk landscape of AI is broad and evolving. For instance, ML models, which are often developed using vast, complex, and continuously updated datasets, require a high level of digitization and connectivity in software and engineering pipelines. Yet the eradication of IT silos, both within the enterprise and potentially with external partners, increases the attack surface for cyber criminals and hackers. Cyber security and resilience is an essential component of the digital transformation agenda on which AI depends. A second established risk is bias. Because historical social inequities are baked into raw data, they can be codified--and magnified--in automated decisions leading, for instance, to unfair credit, loan, and insurance decisions.
Computer scientist says AI 'artist' deserves its own copyrights
His attorney Ryan Abbott of Brown Neri Smith & Khan told Reuters on Wednesday that there is a "real financial importance to this case" that "might not have been so readily apparent a year and a half ago." LitigationcategoryThousands of J&J talc lawsuits in New Jersey get new judge, article with image EnvironmentcategoryMore than 100 lawsuits filed in U.S. court over Camp Lejeune water after waiting period passes, article with image EnvironmentcategoryMore than 100 lawsuits filed in U.S. court over Camp Lejeune water after waiting period passes, article with image Thaler has separately fought to obtain patents on behalf of his AI-invention system in 18 global jurisdictions. That effort has so far been unsuccessful in the U.S., UK, European Union and Australia. A UK Supreme Court hearing on Thaler's dispute there is set for March. Thaler's application named the system itself as the work's creator.
AI and art -- are creators about to become redundant? โ DW โ 02/01/2023
Australian singer Nick Cave came out strongly against an AI-generated track "in the style of Nick Cave" sent to him in January by a fan. It is "bullshit," said Cave. Meanwhile, three female fine artists recently filed a class action lawsuit in the US against several AI companies, charging them with theft of creative ideas. There's no doubt that artificial intelligence is making its way into the art world. While the consequences remain uncertain at this early stage, artists are already concerned about the appropriation of their intellectual property.
Patent Law: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Patents
What is artificial intelligence (AI)? The term artificial intelligence (AI) describes computer-implemented approaches to emulate human decision-making structures to enable computers and machines to process and solve problems largely independently. An essential tool for being able to arrive at independent solutions is the ability of an AI system to learn. This ability is referred to as machine learning. In this process, the AI system learns because of examples to be able to generalize given patterns after the learning phase is complete.
Bias in AI and Machine Learning: Sources and Solutions - Lexalytics
"Bias in AI" has long been a critical area of research and concern in machine learning circles and has grown in awareness among general consumer audiences over the past couple of years as knowledge of AI has grown. It's a term that describes situations where ML-based data analytics systems show bias against certain groups of people. These biases usually reflect widespread societal biases about race, gender, biological sex, age, and culture. There are two types of bias in AI. One is algorithmic AI bias or "data bias," where algorithms are trained using biased data.
10 reasons to worry about generative AI
Generative AI models like ChatGPT are so shockingly good that some now claim that AIs are not only equals of humans but often smarter. They toss off beautiful artwork in a dizzying array of styles. They churn out texts full of rich details, ideas, and knowledge. The generated artifacts are so varied, so seemingly unique, that it's hard to believe they came from a machine. We're just beginning to discover everything that generative AI can do.
Lender Center Student Fellows Researching Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry
These days, it's hard to go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI). Predictive text offers to finish our web searches and our text messages. AI learning-based software can produce everything from research papers to poetry, solving complex math equations to writing computer code. AI can be used to write algorithms, collect data on which areas experience the most gun violence and dictate which neighborhoods receive access to vital resources. This year, five students who make up the 2022-24 Lender Center for Social Justice Fellowship Project will set out to investigate how AI weapons systems transform war and surveillance, and they will also analyze how AI accentuates our social and political vulnerabilities to violence.
Effective Dimension in Bandit Problems under Censorship
Guinet, Gauthier, Amin, Saurabh, Jaillet, Patrick
In this paper, we study both multi-armed and contextual bandit problems in censored environments. Our goal is to estimate the performance loss due to censorship in the context of classical algorithms designed for uncensored environments. Our main contributions include the introduction of a broad class of censorship models and their analysis in terms of the effective dimension of the problem -- a natural measure of its underlying statistical complexity and main driver of the regret bound. In particular, the effective dimension allows us to maintain the structure of the original problem at first order, while embedding it in a bigger space, and thus naturally leads to results analogous to uncensored settings. Our analysis involves a continuous generalization of the Elliptical Potential Inequality, which we believe is of independent interest. We also discover an interesting property of decision-making under censorship: a transient phase during which initial misspecification of censorship is self-corrected at an extra cost, followed by a stationary phase that reflects the inherent slowdown of learning governed by the effective dimension. Our results are useful for applications of sequential decision-making models where the feedback received depends on strategic uncertainty (e.g., agents' willingness to follow a recommendation) and/or random uncertainty (e.g., loss or delay in arrival of information).