15th April 2024

Matt Burgess and Reece Rogers explain how you can take back control of your data from generative AI in Wired. In the article they explain how to opt out of AI training in Adobe, Google Gemini, Grammerly. OpenAI (Chat GPT and Dall-E) and more. Source: Wired.

Kyle Wiggers in TechCrunch takes a sceptical look at the relationship between AI and healthcare. They highlight a number of issues, from its "significant" limitations and "cocnerns around its efficacy" to its perpetuating of stereotypes to concerns around privacy. Source: TechCrunch

First Monday have a special issue on Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power. Articles in this issue include:

  • Participation versus scale: Tensions in the practical demands on participatory AI by Meg Young, Upol Ehsan, Ranjit Singh, Emnet Tafesse, Michele Gilman, Christina Harrington and Jacob Metcalf
  • Field-building and the epistemic culture of AI safety by Shazeda Ahmed, Klaudia Jaźwińska, Archana Ahlawat, Amy Winecoff and Mona Wang
  • Undersea cables in Africa: The new frontiers of digital colonialism by Esther Mwema and Abeba Birhane

Source: First Monday

Ars Technica have a roundup of latest developments. Source: Ars Technica