Seoul, South Korea – The news that Saint Von Colucci, a 22-year-old Canadian-Portuguese actor, singer, and songwriter with pull in South Korea's entertainment scene, died after undergoing surgeries to look like a K-pop star set media abuzz. Von Colucci was reported to have undergone 12 plastic surgeries, costing more than $200,000, to resemble BTS member Jimin and overcome discrimination "against his Western traits". He was said to have recently secured a role in an upcoming Korean drama. The only problem is that Von Colucci may have never existed. A raft of evidence suggests he is the product of an elaborate hoax using artificial intelligence that fooled dozens of media outlets, stretching from the United States and Canada to the United Kingdom, South Korea, India, Malaysia and the Philippines. The debacle appears to be the first known case of AI being used to trick media outlets en masse into spreading misinformation, heralding the dawn of a new era of computer-generated fake news.

Mental and physical health are crucial contributors to living happy and fulfilled lives. How we feel impacts the work we perform, the social relationships we forge, and the care we provide for our loved ones. Because the stakes are so high, people often turn to technology to help keep our communities safe. Artificial intelligence is one of the big hopes, and many companies are investing heavily in tech to serve growing health needs across the world. And many promising examples exist: AI can be used to detect cancer, triage patients, and make treatment recommendations.

In part one, I examined some noted ethicists' opinions about fairness measurement - and found some reasonable, and some incomplete (Can we measure fairness? In this article, I will begin with an example that was in dire need of fairness assessment. I will also introduce another method for fairness assessment. And finally, I'll try to resolve some different opinions between Reid Blackman, myself, and some Oxford scholars. I want to start with an example where the fairness measurement described in Part 1 could have avoided nearly catastrophic results.

Cyber-attacks are rarely out of the headlines. We know state actors, terrorists, and criminals can leverage cyber-means to target the digital infrastructures of our societies. We have also learned that, insofar as our societies grow dependent on digital technologies, they become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. There is no shortage of examples, ranging from the 2007 attacks against Estonia digital services and 2008 cyber-attack against a nuclear power plant in Georgia to WannaCry and NotPetya, two ransomware attacks that encrypted data and demanded ransom payments, and the ransomware cyber-attack on the US Colonial Pipeline, a US oil pipeline system that provides fuel to South-eastern States. My work focuses mostly on state vs state cyber-attacks.

Discrimination laws must be adapted to consider the impact artificial intelligence algorithms have on certain groups, new research has found. The paper from the Oxford Internet Institute says that AI systems are exhibiting bias against groups not protected under current legislation, and that governments should consider updating laws to reflect this. In the study, published today in the journal'Tulane Law Review', author Professor Sandra Wachter of the Oxford Internet Institute argues that something as simple as the web browser you use, how fast you type or whether you sweat during an interview can lead to AI making a negative decision about you. She says current discrimination laws don't adequately combat the type of bias exhibited by artificial intelligence, because there are specific categories of people that receive unfair outcomes, including over loan decisions, job applications and funding requests, who fall outside of the "protected groups" covered by discrimination legislation. Discrimination linked to AI can happen in even ordinary situations without the individual even knowing an AI made the final call, says Professor Wachter in her paper.

Lockdowns caused by COVID-19 have led many to pick up a controller, but all those hours gaming with your significant other could cause a strain in the relationship. A survey found a quarter of UK couples have argued over games once or twice a week and about 12 percent said gaming-related fights happened 150 to 200 times a year. The most common sources of strife were Call of Duty and the popular FIFA soccer franchise, which were both responsible for over a third of fights. However, one in 50 couples admitted to rows over online gaming every single day, and some of the men have contemplating ending the relationship because of it. One of the most popular games out there, Call of Duty is also the source of the most relationship strife: 38 percent of couples say they've argued over Activision's first-person-shooter war game Online poker forum CardsChat polled more than 1,000 adults in the UK whose partners play online video games.

Playing video games could have a positive impact on a person's wellbeing, scientists at the University of Oxford have claimed. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute accessed the data of two games, Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in order to investigate the relationship between game play behaviour and mental health. The scientists, who worked with Electronic Arts and Nintendo of America, found that players experiencing genuine enjoyment from the games saw an improvement in their mental health. Professor Andrew Przybylski, lead author of the study and director of research at the Oxford Internet Institute, said the findings show'video games aren't necessarily bad for your health' and there are other psychological factors which have a significant effect on a person's wellbeing. Scientists at the University of Oxford found that the players experiencing genuine enjoyment from the games experienced a more positive wellbeing.

Did you know Mariarosaria Taddeo, the Deputy Director of the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out her session on'Shaping the future of AI: International policy outlook' here. Artificial intelligence is increasingly affecting our everyday lives. The field has the potential to make the world a healthier, wealthier, and more efficient place. But it also poses vast safety and security risks.

Jill Watson has been a teaching assistant (TA) at the Georgia Institute of Technology for five years now, helping students day and night with all manner of course-related inquiries. But for all the hard work she has done, she still can't qualify for outstanding TA of the year. That's because Jill Watson, contrary to many students' belief, is not actually human. This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, advises CXOs on how to approach AI and ML initiatives, figure out where the data science team fits in, and what algorithms to buy versus build. Created back in 2015 by Ashok Goel, professor of computer science and cognitive science at the Institute, Jill Watson is an artificial system based on IBM's Watson artificial intelligence software.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is informing just about every facet of society, from detecting fraud and surveillance to helping countries battle the current COVID-19 pandemic. But AI is a thorny subject, fraught with complex terminology, contradictory information, and general confusion about what it is at its most fundamental level. This is why the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), the University of Oxford's research and teaching department specializing in the social science of the internet, has partnered with Google to launch a portal with a series of explainers outlining what AI actually is -- including the fundamentals, ethics, its impact on society, and how it's created. The Oxford Internet Institute is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet. At launch, the "A-Z of AI" covers 26 topics, including bias and how AI is used in climate science, ethics, machine learning, human-in-the-loop, and Generative adversarial networks (GANs).