OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear
But On A Sliding Scale James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Intel's new hate speech-purging AI Bleep comes under criticism Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net : Intel's AI-powered Bleep tech lets you choose exactl...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
Facebook: vulnerability was the result of 3 distinct bugs and was introduced in July 2017, attackers could use the account as if they were the account holder
and may get even worse Chris Davies / SlashGear : Facebook hack put 50m users' private info at risk Kurt Wagner / Recode : Hackers may have accessed 50 million Facebook accounts in a new security brea...
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the company will “press pause” on planned change to service fee for each pledge, set to start Dec. 18, after uproar from creators
Patreon Backing Off Its Awful Payment Policy Changes Julia Alexander / Polygon : Patreon attempts to bring back subscribers following exodus last week Stephanie Chan / VentureBeat : Patreon apologizes...