Category: Trust
This Nixon Deepfake Is an Alternate Reality Where Apollo 11 Fails | POPULAR MECHANICS
“Our goal was to use the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques available today to create the most believable result possible—and…
How do you spot a deepfake? A clue hides within our voices, researchers say | NBC NEWS
‘It’s meant to work quickly out of fear that a viral deepfake will need almost immediate identification and response.’ ‘Soft…
AI expert calls for end to UK use of ‘racially biased’ algorithms | THE GUARDIAN
‘Prof Noel Sharkey, who is also a leading figure in a global campaign against “killer robots”, said algorithms were so…
Facebook AI Launches Its Deepfake Detection Challenge | IEEE SPECTRUM
Facebook AI is releasing 100,000+ videos as a training set for its $10 million challenge to help detect deep fakes….
To Free Themselves From Lies, Journalists are Using New Tools and Techniques to Check Facts | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
‘Today, reporters, as well as editors and the production staff, now must work faster than ever but getting the story…
What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters | NEIMAN LAB
‘Whether or not opinion columnists’ direst predictions come to fruition, it seems almost inevitable that newsrooms operating in a world…
How artificial intelligence is redefining the role of manager | WEF
‘Surprisingly, last year, we discovered that the majority of workers would trust orders from a robot. This year, almost two-thirds…
Researchers identify seven types of fake news, aiding better detection | PHYS ORG
‘False news tends to be less grammatical and less factual, with greater reliance on emotionally charged claims, misleading headlines and…
AI-powered journalism: A time-saver or an accident waiting to happen? | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘automated journalism is only as reliable as the information that has been plugged into it to during its development and…
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
‘According to results of their own research, (the system) helped to improve the detection-rate of forged text from 54 percent…
‘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…
Trust in Public Policy Algorithms | Kennedy et al
‘We find a stunning degree of trust in algorithms relative to other sources across all of the experiments.’ There is…
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…