Meta Claims Torrenting Pirated Books Isn’t Illegal Without Proof of Seeding
Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology.
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AI and Policing: 2024 in Review
Law enforcement’s got deep pockets and are under political pressure to address crime, making them a perfect customer for whatever way technology companies can package machine-learning algorithms that sift through historical data in order to do recognition, analytics, or predictions.
Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage
Body camera video equivalent to 25 million copies of “Barbie” is collected but rarely reviewed. Some cities are looking to new technology to examine this stockpile of footage to identify problematic officers and patterns of behavior.
Scientists Unveil ‘Missing Law’ of Nature That Explains How Everything In the Universe Evolved, Including Us
The universe contains “many evolving systems, and yet we don’t seem to have a law of nature that adequately describes why those systems exist.”
Project Nimbus: How Amazon And Google Made Billions From Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
Google employees, who have been kept in the dark about the “Nimbus” AI project, have concerns about Israeli human rights abuses.
Ashton Kutcher’s NGO Supplies Police with ‘Free’ CIA-linked Surveillance Tool to ‘Protect Kids’
A suspect NGO claiming to combat child trafficking by providing surveillance tech to US police has allowed Amazon to continue supplying U.S. law enforcement with facial recognition software despite the tech giant’s moratorium on its sale to police.
California Bill Would Mandate ‘Crime Prediction’ Algorithms Instead of Cash Bail
The bill would require judges to use discriminatory “risk assessment” tools to predict future criminality, with no possibility for appeal.
Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement (VIDEO)
The bill would also make federal funding for state and local law enforcement contingent on the enactment of similar bans.
Elections: Early warning system to fight disinformation online
A new project is an effort to combat the rise of coordinated social media campaigns to incite violence, sew discord and threaten the integrity of democratic elections.
25% of Europeans Would Prefer AI Government to Human Politicians, According to New Survey
More than a quarter of Europeans would rather have their countries’ important political decisions made by artificial intelligence than their elected and unelected human officials, according to a surprising new survey.
AI Used To Spot Dozens of Mysterious Signals Coming From Deep in Space
Fast radio bursts are among the most mysterious phenomena in the universe, and some have suggested they could be coming from alien technology.
Google Admits to Collaboration With U.S. Military On Its Illegal Drone Assassination Program
Google’s TensorFlow AI systems are being used by the US Department of Defense’s Project Maven, which was established in July last year to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and analyze objects in the vast amount of footage captured by US drones.
New A.I. Can Read and Reproduce Images From Your Mind
Scientists at Kyoto University, Japan have developed a new technique using artificial neural networks to analyze brain signals and generate an image of what a person is thinking about.