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Daily Archives: December 16, 2024

You’re Being Tracked by ALPRs

DeFlockMe – 10,760 ALPRs Reported Worldwide and rapidly growing. Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are monitoring your every move. Learn more about how they work and how you can protect your privacy. Privacy Violations – ALPRs track your movements and store your data for long periods of time, creating a detailed record of your location history. They surveil mostly innocent people while claiming to target criminals. The Dangers of ALPRs – ALPRs are a threat to your privacy and civil liberties. They can be used to track your movements, profile you, and even stalk you. Learn more about the dangers of ALPRs and how you can protect yourself. Explore ALPR Locations Near You and Search for ALRPs by location.

Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education

Harrington, Sean, Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education (October 03, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4975804 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4975804  –  “This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage… Continue Reading

You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT

Lifehacker – “ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines like Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, and Microsoft Bing (powered by Copilot). OpenAI originally announced its search plans back… Continue Reading

AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024

AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici, highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided… Continue Reading

How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy

MIT Technology Review – “Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back. The internet loves a good neologism, especially if it can capture a purported vibe shift or explain a new trend. In 2013, the columnist Adrian Wooldridge coined… Continue Reading

Inescapable AI

A Report from TechTonic Justice – Inescapable AI The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive – “The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school,… Continue Reading

Beyond Fairness in Computer Vision: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating Harms and Fostering Community-Rooted Computer Vision Research

Timnit Gebru and Remi Denton (2024), “Beyond Fairness in Computer Vision: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating Harms and Fostering Community-Rooted Computer Vision Research”, Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics  and Vision: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp 215–321. DOI: 10.1561/0600000102. “The field of computer vision is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, with its use in surveillance… Continue Reading