Improving healthcare safety by reducing errors in patient identification usually sounds like a good idea. And more reliable patient identification would reduce or eliminate the majority of cases of medical identity theft where someone knowingly lends or gives their health insurance information to a family member or friend who doesn’t have health insurance. But are…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
S.T.O.P. Condemns ESRB’s Gaming Facial Recognition Plans
(New York, NY, 7/26/2023) – Today, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, condemned the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) proposal to use facial recognition to surveil gamers’ ages. The proposal was made in a filing to the Federal Trade Commission, detailing software that would use gamers’ photos to…
No Laughing Matter: Comedian Sarah Silverman Sues Meta Platforms and OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
Ashley M. Robinson of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP writes: Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden recently filed class-action lawsuits against Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI (backed by Microsoft Corp.) for allegedly using their copyrighted content without authorization to train artificial intelligence (AI) language models. Meta and OpenAI’s AI language…
Hearing: Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation
The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law will be holding a hearing on July 25 at 03:00 pm Eastern: Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation Scheduled witnesses are: Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science The University of California, Berkley Berkley, CA Yoshua Bengio Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec…