Category: Trust
In AI we trust — too much | AXIOS
‘AI carries an aura of legitimacy and accuracy, burnished by overeager marketing departments and underinformed users. But AI is just…
Do we trust artificial intelligence agents to mediate conflict? Not entirely | USC
‘Researchers from USC and the University of Denver created a simulation in which a three-person team was supported by a…
We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…deep learning may be good at mimicking the perceptual tasks of the human brain, like image or speech recognition. But…
Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools | SILICON ANGLE
‘Google’s videos should be useful, since many of them appear to be incredibly realistic, especially to users who have no…
Explainable AI and the Companies Leading the Way | VENTURE RADAR
‘…as models become more specialised and complex, they turn out to be increasingly opaque and harder to interpret.’ Verification can…
Which Face Is Real? | Bergstrom & West
Practice your fake-spotting skills in this DIY drill. It’s from a university course named ‘Calling Bullshit’ at University of Washington….
How do we build trust between humans and AI? | WEF
True trust is two way, says the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, suggesting a social contract with AI is required in order…
AI tool that can spot text written by a machine could spell the end of fake news, false reviews and phoney social media accounts | DAILY MAIL
THE DAILY MAIL SAYS computer generated text has ‘tells’ that make it stand out from human writing. Researchers at Harvard…
‘A perfect storm’: The Wall Street Journal has 21 people detecting ‘deepfakes’ | DIGIDAY UK
Deep fakes could become more sophisticated in the 2020 U.S. election and that has the Wall Street Journal on a…
Introducing The Fact Checker’s guide to manipulated video | WASHINGTON POST
The Washington Post says manipulated media comes in three forms: Missing context Deceptive editing Malicious transformation The Post provides a…
Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
The ability to create synthetic videos outweighs detection methods by ‘100 to 1’, according to a digital forensics professor at…
Leading the way into the age of artificial intelligence | FINLAND 2019
THE GOVERNMENT OF FINLAND wants AI to be ‘human-centric’ and ‘trust-generating.’ The aspiration comes in a sweeping government paper on…
You can train an AI to fake UN speeches in just 13 hours | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘The researchers conclude that a greater global effort is needed to work on ways of detecting and responding to AI-generated…
If we are using AI in journalism we need better guidelines on reporting uncertainty | ONLINE JOURNALISM BLOG
‘85% is quite good in machine learning terms — but journalistically, it’s problematic. We have moved from dealing with facts,…
Five questions you can use to cut through AI hype | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Oftentimes, companies pass the first four tests but not the last. For me, that is a major red flag. MIT…
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI | EUROPEAN COMMISSION 2018
The EUROPEAN COMMISSION presents seven guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence. The Commission says they want to create ‘an environment of…
Mirroring to Build Trust in Digital Assistants | Metcalf et al
The chattiness of an AI-generated voice impacts how much it’s trusted and varies by user, according to researchers at Apple….
How Reuters is training reporters to spot ‘deepfakes’ | DIGIDAY
DIGIDAY UK reports how Reuters created its own fake video to test its in-house verification team and step-up its ability…
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | THE GUARDIAN
OpenAI says it’s withholding some of the science behind its text-generating AI model GPT-2. THE GUARDIAN reports the company is…
This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed…
What kind of news gatekeepers do we want machines to be? Filter bubbles, fragmentation, and the normative dimensions of algorithmic recommendations | Nechushtai & Lewis
Efrat Nechushtai and Seth Lewis burst filter bubbles in this paper about choices made by news algorithms. They researched automated…
WaPo Editorial: A reason to despair about the digital future – Deepfakes | THE WASHINGTON POST
‘The ability to use machine learning to simulate an individual saying or doing almost anything poses personal and political risks…
How to recognize fake AI-generated images | MEDIUM
‘Here are some things you can look for when trying to recognize an image produced by a GAN.’ MEDIUM provides…
Trust highest in Sweden and Germany, lowest in Hungary and U.K. | 9 country study
Researchers at Cambridge University teamed with YouGov to understand attitudes about trust in media. The study was conducted in summer…
How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes | NEIMANLABS
“Raising awareness in the newsroom about the latest technology is critical,” said Christine Glancey, a deputy editor on the Ethics &…
Do People Trust Algorithms More Than Companies Realize? | HBR
‘…it may be not be necessary to invest in emphasizing the human element of a process wholly or partially driven…
Marcus & Ernest: No, artificial intelligence won’t solve fake news | NEW YORK TIMES
‘Existing A.I. systems that have been built to comprehend news accounts are extremely limited… lacking a robust mechanism for drawing…
It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video | BLOOMBERG
Runs 2:59 Report by Bloomberg News.
Joseph Stiglitz: ‘going towards a more divided society’ | THE GUARDIAN
‘Which is the easier way to make a buck: figuring out a better way to exploit somebody, or making a…
Tom Kent: Fake news is about to get so much more dangerous | THE WASHINGTON POST
‘Society now has to learn that video no longer guarantees reliability. Instead, it could be the biggest lie of all.’…