Most tech companies don’t have any engineering teams on the entire African continent (54 countries) inviting a neo-colonial approach says Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 at #AIStocktaking

We’re excited to see interest in the open positions at AI Now! We’re setting up open office hours for anyone who has questions, whether about the roles or what it’s like working here - the first session is 4/19 at 10 am EST.

For more info:
ainowinstitute.org/general/office…

Wow – another hors d’oeuvre that pulls no punches on Europe’s brink. Mario Draghi previews his report & says it like it is.
Like Enrico Letta's, will – again – require competition enforcers to come out & play: what’s your role in this call for size & consolidation?…

New tone from Europe:
'Others are no longer playing by the rules, and are actively pursuing policies to enhance their competitive positions'
euractiv.com/section/econom…

BTW Schwangerschaftsabbrüche müssen endlich entkriminalisiert werden! #wegmit218 centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/2024/04/14/ent…

As voters in India prepare to head to the polls Human Rights Watch examined how the use of technology risks undermining this high stakes election. Read our explainer on key digital threats, incl. misuse of data, the role of tech companies, human rights standards & more

hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

🧵Ahead of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s urgent debate on the draft Artificial Intelligence Convention on 18 April, we have flagged several serious gaps in human rights safeguards
@CoE PACE PACE_Legal

amnesty.eu/news/council-o…

And let me add another life lesson: how people react when you fail is 100% a reflection of their own relationship with failure ✨

Come work with us!! We're a small core team, by design, and these two new roles will be a crucial part of shaping our work and how we do it.

All the details here:
apply.workable.com/ai-now-institu…

My mind is anxiously focused on the news - but today I‘m in Brussels to meet this new civil society coalition to tackle monopoly power in Europe

🚨Read this before you use OpenAI for Hiring🚨

Leon Yin Davey Alba and I ran thousands of resume screening tests with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and found that the tech will racially discriminate applicants based only on their name. Serious implications. 🧵 1/10

bloom.bg/3It4cE4

While generative AI is what drives press, predictive AI used in criminal justice, finance, healthcare, and other domains remains far more consequential in people’s lives

🇺🇳 First #UN GA resolution on #AI : a positive step reinforcing #HumanRights approach, but more is needed.

The #UN has to set higher standards, including for #participation in AI governance & systems used for #NationalSecurity .

Read our joint statement ⤵️ accessnow.org/press-release/…

Ich denke wer sich jetzt in Deutschland um die Demokratie und Meinungsfreiheit keine Sorgen macht, passt einfach nicht auf.

Sending warm solidarity tonight to #Palestinian #Israeli & #Iranian civilians, all part of the human family, all deserving of a just peace & of leaders who actually care about human life & #HumanRights

World leaders must work urgently for a #CeasefireNow for the entire region

New research shows training LLMs on exponentially more data will yield only linear gains. So as Silicon Valley seeks ever more data, compute, energy and human works for AI systems, the improvements will be marginal at best. Something tells me this new info isn't going to stop it.

If you were on a break during Easter you might have missed this very helpful report coming out of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council last week, where both the EU and the US made it *very* clear that US-based researchers can use article 40.12 DSA for research purposes.

Urgent information for any government departments currently using these tools to summarise and synthesise research for policy briefings.

In a year when we're all so concerned about AI-generated misinformation, the call may coming from inside the house...

Does the EU #AIAct do what it says on the tin? Does it protect us against harmful surveillance?

Wonderful colleagues in the AI core group tell you now!

Read this important analysis of the key features of the AI Act measured against all our demands over the last 4 years
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Loved being on @aljazeera about US v. Apple last week. The message is clear: regulators are taking a very close look at the unprecedented power that a handful of tech companies have accumulated over the past decade - long-overdue and positive.
#competition #apple #antitrust