EdTechSR Ep 300 Educators Eye AI Ethics

Podcast from August 2, 2023

Check out our Episode 300 from August 2, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. What Is Worldcoin? Here’s What To Know About The Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Project Launched By OpenAI’s Sam Altman (Forbes, 24 July 2023)

2. Netflix Pulls AI Content Creation From Job Listing After Backlash (Newswekk; 31 July 2023)

3. The Writers’ Strike Over AI Is Bigger Than Hollywood (The Markup; 29 July 2023)

4. Google will ‘supercharge’ Assistant with AI that’s more like ChatGPT and Bard (The Verge; 31 July 2023)

5. Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix’s ‘Deep Fake Love’’ (New York TImes; 21 July 2023)

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6. OpEd: Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (NYTimes, 27 July 2023) #GiftLink

7. Meta loses battle in EU, will ask for consent to show personalized ads (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)

8. Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars (NYTimes, 28 July 2023) #GiftLink 

9. Meta starts blocking news in Canada over law on paying publishers (Reuters, 1 Aug 2023)

10. Google Chrome officially removing the download bar for a new tray UI (9to5Google, 2 Aug 2023)

11. First look at the new Microsoft 365 Chromebook integration (About Chromebooks; 24 July 2023)

12. ‘No sign’ Apple will launch generative AI in 2024, says Kuo (9to5Mac, 2 Aug 2023)

13. Jason’s Geek of the Week: You Can Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 LEGO Kits for Free (LifeHacker; 29 July 2023)

14. Wes’ Geek of the Week: Google Robotics Lab Segment, NYT Hard Fork Podcast (28 July 2023, at 40:00) - Mastodon share

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content (ArsTechnica, 2 Aug 2023)

2. The Google Assistant is getting a big reboot around generative AI (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)

3. Pearson eyes AI revenue growth but concedes some tools are imports of ChatGPT (Evening Standard; 31 July 2023)

4. ChatGPT can now remember who you are and what you want (The Verge; 20 July 2023)

5. Microsoft brings Bing AI support to Google Chrome, adds dark mode too (9 to 5 Google; 24 July 2023)

6. Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices (Rest of World; 27 July 2023)

7. Microsoft AI Subscription: A New Era In Productivity Tools (AutoGPT; 19 July 2023)

8. Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)

9. TikTok launches text-only posts to rival Elon Musk's Twitter (Reuters, 25 July 2023)

10. X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spooked Twitter advertisers (ArsTechnica, 1 Aug 2023)

11. Why I use a Chromebook: It does what I need really well (About Chromebooks; 1 July 2023)

12. Federal Reserve officially launches new FedNow instant-payments service (CNBC, 20 July 2023)

13. Republicans Are Fooling Democrats on Kids’ Online Safety (New Republic, 2 Aug 2023)

14. Wakelet Legacy & Premium Plans (Wakelet; 5 July 2025)

15. Why has Wakelet introduced plans? (Wakelet)

Image attribution: "Anders Sandberg on the Ethics of Uploading" (CC BY 2.0) by david.orban