Tag: public trust
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The Register: Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/uk_canvassing_app_issues/ Source: The Register Title: Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues Feedly Summary: Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org’s report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of…
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Slashdot: Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/004211/misinformation-and-cyberespionage-top-wefs-global-risks-report-2025?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 outlines significant risks posed by misinformation generated through AI tools, particularly highlighting the impact of state-sponsored campaigns on democratic systems. Additionally, cyberespionage emerges as…
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Slashdot: Apple Pulls AI-Generated Notifications For News After Generating Fake Headlines
Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/01/16/2213202/apple-pulls-ai-generated-notifications-for-news-after-generating-fake-headlines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Pulls AI-Generated Notifications For News After Generating Fake Headlines Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s decision to temporarily disable its AI-driven news summary feature highlights the critical challenge of ensuring accuracy and reliability in generative AI technologies. This incident underscores the importance of robust AI…
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OpenAI : Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models
Source URL: https://openai.com/index/deliberative-alignment Source: OpenAI Title: Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models Feedly Summary: Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models Introducing our new alignment strategy for o1 models, which are directly taught safety specifications and how to reason over them. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new alignment strategy…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/ais-next-leap/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life Feedly Summary: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life I’m quoted in this Washington Post story by Gerrit De Vynck about “agents" – which in this case are defined as AI systems that operate…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Fable, a Book App, Makes Changes After Offensive A.I. Messages
Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/us/fable-ai-books-racism.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Fable, a Book App, Makes Changes After Offensive A.I. Messages Feedly Summary: The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of safeguards in response…
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AlgorithmWatch: Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections
Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/llms_state_elections/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections Feedly Summary: Large language models continue to be unreliable for election information. Our research was able to substantially improve the reliability of safeguards in the Microsoft Copilot chatbot against election misinformation in German. However barriers to data access greatly restricted…