EdTechSR Ep 302 AI Ethics Examined

Podcast from August 23, 2023

Check out our Episode 302 from August 23, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Montana Digital Academy offering new Artificial Intelligence course to high school students (KPAX; 16 August 2023)

2. When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty (New York Times; 16 August 2023) 🎁Link

3. OpenAI may have to wipe ChatGPT and start over (Boy Genius Report; 18 August 2023)

4. Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise (AP, 6 Aug 2023)

5. Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models (Plos Biology, 15 Aug 2023)

6. An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban (ArsTechnica, 16 Aug 2023)

7. Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living (Wired, 21 Aug 2023)

8. ChatGPT costs $700,000 daily, maker may go bankrupt in 2024: Report (Business Standard, 13 Aug 2023)

9. The new ‘Floating Workspace’ feature is finally beginning to show up in ChromeOS Canary (Chrome Unboxed; 21 August 2023)

10. Google opens eSignature beta for Google Docs and Google Drive (TechCrunch; 9 August 2023)

11. Surprise: Apple now supports California’s right-to-repair (The Verge; 23 August 2023)

12. Apple has been working on Vision Pro since the first iPhone launched (9 to 5 Mac; 23 August 2023)

13. NASCAR driver Noah Gragson suspended from racing due to social media conduct (CNN, 5 Aug 2023)

14. The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction (Politico, 16 Aug 2023)

15. Bill Simmons, Alex Cooper, Emma Chamberlain and 36 More on The Future of Podcasting (Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug 2023)

16. Jason’s Geek of the Week: “Custom Instructions” from Reddit 

17. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: “What Is The Internet” playlist - Student YouTubers - Oloigies [PODCAST] Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH) with Nita Farahany

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

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

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

3. In Praise of Boring AI (One Useful Thing from Ethan Mollick; 2 August 2023)

4. GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (Arxiv; 10 July 2023)

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

6. What normal Americans — not AI companies — want for AI (Vox; 18 August 2023)

7. 40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study (ZDNet; 18 August 2023)

8. From the Yikes Department: Microsoft retracts AI-written article advising tourists to visit a food bank on an empty stomach (Engadget; 18 August 2023)

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

10. Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI (The Verge; 15 August 2023)

11. Is your data safe with Google’s generative AI? Here’s what you need to know (Chrome Unboxed; 15 August 2023)

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

13. Google says it will take nearly a year to fully decouple Chrome from ChromeOS (Chrome Unboxed; 10 August 2023)

14. Google is 25 Years Old!!! (Android Police; 8 August 2023)

15. Google is set to increase the frequency of Chrome updates to bolster security (Chrome Unboxed; 14 August 2023)

16. There's very little a Chromebook can't do compared to Windows or a Mac (Android Central; 14 April 2023)

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

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

19. Can Tech Save Democracy? With Rose Jackson (Openweb Podcast, 8 Aug 2023)

20. The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. (NYTimes, 13 Aug 2023) #GiftLink

21. Record Labels File $412 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive (Rolling Stone, 12 Aug 2023)

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