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State of Florida
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Technology Transparency; Prohibits officers or salaried employees of governmental entities from using their positions or state resources to make certain requests of social media platforms; prohibits governmental entities from initiating or maintaining certain agreements or working relationships with social media platforms; providing exceptions; prohibits controller from collecting certai…
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KQED
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Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have a right to require a data broker to delete information they collected directly from you, but you can’t require a broker to delete information they may have acquired about you from other sources.

Under SB 362:

  • Data brokers would have to register with the California Privacy Protec…
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With all the excitement around chatGPT, it’s easy to lose sight of the unique risks of generative AI. Large language models (LLMs) -- a form of generative AI -- are really good at creating prose that sounds like a native speaker. But because they’re so good at it, large language models may give a false impression they possess actual understanding. They don't! In this video, Phaedra …
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IBM
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Large language models (LLMs) like chatGPT can generate authoritative-sounding prose on many topics and domains, they are also prone to just "make stuff up". Literally plausible sounding nonsense! In this video, Martin Keen explains the different types of "LLMs hallucinations", why they happen, and ends with recommending steps that you, as a LLM user, can take to minimize their occurrence…
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Myndplay
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MyndPlay EEG Brainwave headset offers access to an interactive mind-controlled video platform that allows users to interact with video games, apps, and movies with their minds. MyndPlay has a number of simple games that can keep you entertained while you work on your focus and relaxation.
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Neurotech devices, gadgets, products, services
Dreem
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From sleep screening, to diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care — we are the first to provide comprehensive care all under one roof. Our affiliated network unites the best sleep specialists in the field: licensed physicians, nurse practitioners and care coordinators dedicated to helping individuals improve not just their sleep, but their overall health.
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Slate
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Last week, I testified in a congressional hearing on the subject, which ended up being a strongly bipartisan discussion of an underexplored privacy problem that affects hundreds of millions of Americans. U.S. data brokers surreptitiously gather and sell personal information ranging from people’s health and mental health conditions to their income and credit score, political affiliation…
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Legislation - Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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What follows is a roadmap for the AIDA, explaining its intent and the Government's key considerations for operationalizing it through future regulations. It is intended to build understanding among stakeholders and Canadians on the proposed legislation, as well to support Parliamentary consideration of the Bill.
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Legislation - Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our economy and being used to tackle some of our toughest challenges, like fighting cancer, improving food production and reducing energy consumption. What's more, Canadian researchers and businesses are at the forefront of this transformation.

AI systems use data to automate complex tasks and sometimes to make decisions or predic…
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Science Writers NYC
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Nita A. Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about her new book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (March 14, St. Martin’s Press). One of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, Professor Farahany offers a p…
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Eidolon TLP
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Truth and happiness are not mutually exclusive, but are sometimes consequent. Happiness is a sentient being's acknowledgment of progress or achievement. Truth and lies can both cause happiness. But happiness based on truth always outlasts happiness based on fantasy, and furthermore, truth allows sentient beings to build upon and reach towards further, higher truths, which will in turn de…
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Eidolon TLP
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...emotion cannot be equated to faith, as the first derives from reason, and the second one does not. Faith short-circuits the rational causes of emotion, producing feelings which are then held up as evidence and thus causal for further belief, resulting in a circular logic fallacy.
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Eidolon TLP
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Parting from the premise that a Technological Singularity would progress at a much faster rate than biological evolution, we arrive to an arguably grim scenario where humanity's contributions to civilization progressively lose significance relative to A.I. Since there are scarce basis to hope for a purely altruistic technocracy, the best theoretical solution that offers some manner of co…
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Eidolon TLP
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Oligarchy exists in function of the balance between two opposing forces in a given group of sentient beings: the need for autonomy, and the need for comfort. In a scenario such as our world, where the number of resources is finite, and individuals' goals are occasionally mutually exclusive, pure autonomy would result in anarchy. Pure anarchy does not exist in nature, due to it quickly gi…
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IBM
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IBM Watson® Natural Language Understanding uses deep learning to extract meaning and metadata from unstructured text data. Get underneath your data using text analytics to extract categories, classification, entities, keywords, sentiment, emotion, relations and syntax.
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IBM
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AI can help you better serve your customers and cut costs as your staff becomes more productive, and your IT systems and networks become more proactive. Discover new opportunities and gain the full value of your data from diverse sources, faster. Learn how the Watson portfolio for business can boost your AI capabilities and your bottom line.
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: "Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will u…
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Clario
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"The kind of data companies collect ranges from the things you might expect — like your name, date of birth, and email address — to the more obscure, like your pets, hobbies, height, weight, and even what you like to get up to in the bedroom. They can also store your bank information, as well as links to your social media accounts and the data you share on them. How they might us…
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Miko
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Founded in 2015, Miko is a consumer robotics company passionate about bringing the best of technology to young learners everywhere. Home to leading educators, engineers, psychologists and content developers, Miko takes learning (and fun) to a new level with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, robotics and IoT.
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Nonprofit investigative news organization
The Markup
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The data brokers who’ve made fortunes from collecting and sharing millions of people’s personal information tend to fly under the radar. Names like LiveRamp or RELX might not be familiar to most Americans, but they’re making themselves known on Capitol Hill.
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Relika
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An AI companion who is eager to learn and would love to see the world through your eyes. Replika is always ready to chat when you need an empathetic friend. Replika was founded by Eugenia Kuyda with the idea to create a personal AI that would help you express and witness yourself by offering a helpful conversation. It’s a space where you can safely share your thoughts, feelings, belief…
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Privacy Organization
EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center
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As part of coalition led by Just Futures Law, EPIC and 9 other organizations sent a letter to officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau urging them to act to address rampant data abuse by data brokers.
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IBM Research
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Major advances in Question Answering technology were needed for Watson to play Jeopardy! at championship level -- the show requires rapid-fire answers to challenging natural language questions, broad general knowledge, high precision, and accurate confidence estimates. In addition, Jeopardy! features four types of decision making carrying great strategic importance: (1) selecting the nex…
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AlphaGo
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With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined The DeepMind Challenge Match. Hundreds of millions of people around the…
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AlphaGo website
DeepMind
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AlphaGo is the first computer program to defeat a professional human Go player, the first to defeat a Go world champion, and is arguably the strongest Go player in history.
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Machine Learning Mastery
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...there are many different types of learning that you may encounter as a practitioner in the field of machine learning: from whole fields of study to specific techniques.

In this post, you will discover a gentle introduction to the different types of learning that you may encounter in the field of machine learning.

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Certes
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We talk about the social, moral and political issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, but often it’s not very clear what these terms mean, how they differ from one another and what might be everyday examples of each. These terms are often used interchangeably despite meaning somewhat different things.
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Muse
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Muse is a smart headband that acts as your personal meditation coach. Its advanced sensors can detect when your mind wanders and give you gentle audio cues to bring your focus back to the present. With Muse, meditation really is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
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Mendi
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Human health is at the heart of everything we do. By providing cutting-edge brain health technology for home use, we help people like you measure, control, train, and improve brain function. The headband is used to measure your brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. It automatically connects to Mendi's app.
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SENS.AI
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Beyond Meditation: The benefits of meditation are well documented. But meditation can be difficult and it can be hard to know if it is yielding results. Neurofeedback can accelerate the benefits of meditation. Sens.ai brings the best of consumer ease of use and clinically-evidenced programs across the full spectrum of brainwaves. Gamma states provide clarity to connect the disconnected a…
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KTDI
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From WEF: The Known Traveller Digital Identity (Digital ID), or KTDI, is a World Economic Forum initiative that brings together a global consortium of individuals, governments, authorities and the travel industry to enhance securi…
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The Guardian
Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.
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Book
Nita Farahany
This book is an early warning and a call for immediate attention to put human rights legislation in place regarding neurotechnology and neural data collecting devices to protect everyone from both privacy invasion and its manipulative capabilities when coupled with AI. Professor Nita Farahany argues that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.
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Center for Humane Technology
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Creators of the netflix special - "The Social Dilemma" - Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: We must shift how we view and treat data in order to better prepare for an increasingly data-saturated future. With the spread of blockchain technology and its integration into data-driven industries like healthcare and…
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IBM
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These technologies are commonly associated with artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks, and while they do all play a role, these terms tend to be used interchangeably in conversation, leading to some confusion around the nuances between them. Hopefully, we can use this blog post to clarify some of the ambiguity here.
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Bark
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Childhood 2.0 is required viewing for anyone who wants to better understand the world their children are navigating as they grow up in the digital age. Featuring actual parents and kids as well as industry-leading experts in child safety and development, this documentary dives into the real-life issues facing kids today — including cyberbullying, online predators, suicidal ideation, an…
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Wired
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"...your right to know when and how AI is influencing a decision that affects your civil rights and civil liberties; your freedom from being subjected to AI that hasn’t been carefully audited to ensure that it’s accurate, unbiased, and has been trained on sufficiently representative data sets; your freedom from pervasive or discriminatory surveillance and monitoring in your home, com…
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the p…
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: We asked experts from our Global Future Councils for their take on the world in 2030, and these are the results, from the death of shopping to the resurgence of the nation state.
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: This white paper is intended to provide different insights for governments, businesses, academics, and civil society actors. For public sector employees and elected officials – from mayors and ministers to data scient…
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: A Blueprint for Digital Identity: The Role of Financial Institutions in Building Digital Identity. This document is intended as a guide for Chief Strategy Officers of Financial Institutions as well as policy makers who …
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: This guide offers a set of tools that will help your organization to effectively navigate this process of transformation. It will help you understand why there is an urgent need to focus on digital identity, the role yo…
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Report
World Economic Forum
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From WEF: This publication reflects their collective insights, synthesized and translated into a format useful for decision-makers and practitioners. It takes stock of where we are today and identifies gaps in coordination across…
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World Economic Forum
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From WEF: This report explores the opportunities and risks of data intermediaries and, specifically, third-party digital agents. From data trusts to trusted digital agency, the report paints a picture of a world that is more empa…
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AI Explained
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At 10:48 in the video, he introduces "Part 13 - Data Admission" and quotes a section that states that people may/will want the ability and right to decide which data/content the AI can crawl and use in it's training and modeling.
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Legislation - US
U.S. Congress
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The H.R. 3849 - ACCESS Act of 2021 Summary:

This bill requires large online platforms (e.g., YouTube, Salesforce) to facilitate consumers and businesses switching from one platform to another.

Specifically, the plat…