The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social
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"Other abuse cases have been discovered using the website HaveIBeenFlocked .com, a website that compiles Flock searches released via public records requests and turns them into a searchable database": 404media.co/cops-keep-ge... #ethics #internet #privacy #tech
"Against the adversary it was designed for--the provider who performs the inference itself--I believe that [private inference] probably does what it says. All I’m trying to say in this post is that this adversary is a very small piece of any agentic system." #ethics #business #tech #internet
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"At the risk of saying more obvious things, the difference between a helpful private agent, a corporate advertising bot, and a government spy comes down mainly to a matter of prompting, and maybe a bit of model fine-tuning." blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a... #AI #privacy #cybersec
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"When the same #news event is queried, different #chatbots ground their answers in materially different sources. This is a form of information fragmentation peculiar to AI-mediated access, distinct from the... effects that have always shaped news consumption." hai.stanford.edu/news/reading... #tech
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
In a new study, scholars measured how accurately popular AI chatbots answered questions about the emerging news and found substantial regional disparity, dependence on distinct information ecosystems,...
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and…
Join Next 10 and Santa Clara University on Thursday, June 11th at 11am PT for a webinar with report authors to discuss the report's key findings and recommendations for policymakers, local governments, and data center facilities.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"At the risk of saying more obvious things, the difference between a helpful private agent, a corporate advertising bot, and a government spy comes down mainly to a matter of prompting, and maybe a bit of model fine-tuning." blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a... #AI #privacy #cybersec
Join Next 10 and Santa Clara University on Thursday, June 11th at 11am PT for a webinar with report authors to discuss the report's key findings and recommendations for policymakers, local governments, and data center facilities.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
My AI Environmental Impacts Act would require data centers to report on air quality, water use, noise pollution, light pollution, land use, and energy use. Communities are already feeling these impacts. We need more, but the least our government can do is give us the truth.
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and…
