Study showing that ChatGPT can influence our moral judgments, and we underestimate how influenced we are. Highlights the need for education to help people better understand what these systems are doing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31341-0

Surprise FAccT acceptance on cool work led by @giadap on how ethics, law, and computer science intertwine in operationalizing Ethical AI in tech work. Stay tuned for the camera-ready! 🤓🥳
https://mastodon.social/@giadap/110032488828768418

"A job's a job" and my students learn it's cool to boil glacial lakes to steal other people's art

@willoremus misinfobouros

@willoremus Thanks for this!
Also love the phrase "misinfo ourobouros"

Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW law prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a 2018 Washington Post story.

The law prof is real. The rest was made up.

We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/

One good thing that these ChatLLM systems have done is bringing the word "ourobouros" into everyday conversation...

New great piece from Melissa Heikkelä where she explains 3 serious security issues with modern chatbots -- and there aren't working solutions for them yet. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/03/1070893/three-ways-ai-chatbots-are-a-security-disaster/

🥳 We've released our Ethics & Society @huggingface Solstice Newsletter, this one focused on **openness** with ML, and the interplay with **safeguards**.
https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-3
Led by the amazing Irene Solaiman, check it out!

As I was privately babbling out my own diatribe on the FLI letter yesterday, I was honored to be pinged by @emilymbender and @timnitGebru about joining forces to put out coherent thoughts. Excited to be able to share it today.

There are clearly foreseeable long-term AI harms. To address them, regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices.

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

@emilymbender @timnitGebru @meg
Thank you for your statement.
It puts in a nutshell what's wrong with this letter:

"The letter addresses none of the ongoing harms from these systems, including 1) worker exploitation and massive data theft to create products that profit a handful of entities, 2) the explosion of synthetic media in the world, which both reproduces systems of oppression and endangers our information ecosystem, and 3) the concentration of power in the hands of a few people which exacerbates social inequities."

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

"Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices."

With @timnitGebru @meg and Angelina McMillan-Major

Well suddenly this feels relevant: A couple of years ago we published a paper about how qualitative researchers feel about the possibility of AI-assisted qualitative coding.

"While participants highlight the messiness and uncertainty of qualitative inductive analysis, they still want full agency over the process and believe that AI should not interfere."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3449168

I talked to @pranshuverma about sex! But instead I was just quoted about the Eliza effect. Sex fail. Probably for the better. Great piece.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/30/replika-ai-chatbot-update/

I always read @kharijohnson & this piece w @willknight is helpful in explaining what happens next with AI.
"Going from text generation to taking actions on a person’s behalf erodes an air gap that has so far prevented language models from taking actions."
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-plugins-openai/

Super helpful article about "the letter" from Chloe Xiang!!
Makes the connection to longtermism that some have been confused about as well.
https://vice.com/en/article/qjvppm/the-open-letter-to-stop-dangerous-ai-race-is-a-huge-mess
Also:
"It's essentially misdirection: bringing everyone's attention to hypothetical powers and harms"-
@SashaMTL

A chatbot that uses GPT-J has now led to at least 1 reported suicide.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/430098/belgian-man-commits-suicide-following-exchanges-with-chatgpt

NEXT ethics-relevant thing I'm excited about @huggingface is we've created a "Not-For-All-Eyes" tag that can be used to tag Datasets, Models, and Spaces (demos). It's similar to "NSFW", but different.

What's the diff? 🧵

An interesting subtle bias in our image generators: the American smile

https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf

I've been having tons of fun working with @SashaMTL, @yjernite and Christopher Akiki on bias exploration tools for generative AI.
Today, we share some of our results.
Thanks for the reporting from
Melissa Heikkilä!

https://technologyreview.com/2023/03/22/1070167/these-news-tool-let-you-see-for-yourself-how-biased-ai-image-models-are/

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11408
Tools: https://huggingface.co/spaces/society-ethics/StableBias