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What Elected Officials Say and Do

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Polarization Research Lab – America’s Political Pulse – Resources and data to understand and halt the growth of partisan animosity. What Elected Officials Say and Do – Explore data on the speech, effectiveness, and campaign support for elected U.S. legislators.

  • Using AI to assess the rhetoric of all 535 legislators in the House and Senate.
  • Pulling data from speeches, newsletters, tweets, and public statements.
  • 1,531,223 data points processed and tagged so far; updated daily.

What Voters Think about Partisan Animosity – Explore weekly survey data on partisan hatred, support for democratic norm violations, and support for partisan violence.

AI Risk Repository

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What are the risks from Artificial Intelligence? A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain. Read preprint Explore database What is the AI Risk Repository? The AI Risk Repository has three parts: The AI Risk Database captures 700+ risks extracted from 43 existing frameworks, with quotes and… Continue Reading

FTC Announces Final Rule Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials

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The rule will allow agency to strengthen enforcement, seek civil penalties against violators, and deter AI-generated fake reviews. The final rule announced today follows an advance notice of proposed rulemaking and a notice of proposed rulemaking announced in November 2022 and June 2023, respectively. The final rule prohibits: Fake or False Consumer Reviews, Consumer Testimonials, and… Continue Reading

How the World Wide Web Gets Spun Out of Thin Air

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The Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data through tiny beams of light, making it possible for us to be online. They run under oceans and across deserts. It is the… Continue Reading

Deceptive AI systems that give explanations are more convincing than honest AI systems

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Deceptive AI systems that give explanations are more convincing than honest AI systems and can amplify belief in misinformation. Valdemar Danry, Pat Pataranutaporn, Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Pattie Maes – Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, specifically large language models (LLMs), have the capability to generate not just misinformation, but also deceptive explanations that can justify… Continue Reading

How Loophole in Privacy Law Makes Opting Out of Facebook Data Sharing Difficult

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“A new report from Consumer Watchdog shows how thousands of companies share your data with Facebook, including financial companies and health care providers, and how a loophole in California’s premier privacy law makes opting out difficult and time consuming. The report details how the big three web browsers do not offer a global opt out… Continue Reading

Radio Garden

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Radio Garden invites you to explore live radio from around the world. By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away…Since… Continue Reading

Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly

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Nature – Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers — raising uncomfortable questions about copyright. “Academic publishers are selling access to research papers to technology firms to train artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Some researchers have reacted with dismay at such deals happening without the consultation of authors. The trend is… Continue Reading

Western Water Rights

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Data is Plural: Western water rights. Matthew D. Lisk et al. have compiled and standardized a dataset of water rights records — key documents in the allocation of the scarce resource — in the Western United States. Drawing on raw data collected from 11 states, the harmonized dataset “provides consistent unique identifiers for each spatial… Continue Reading