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AI Workers Warn Against AI to Loved Ones

AI ethics expert Krista Pawloski highlights the ethical challenges of AI moderation on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Pawloski's experience reveals the prioritization of speed over safety in AI content moderation tasks.

English Websites Promote Pro-Kremlin Propaganda

English-language websites, including mainstream news outlets, link to pro-Kremlin disinformation from the Pravda network. Institute for Strategic Dialogue study reveals over 80% of citations treat the network as credible, increasing its visibility.

AI Strengthening Democracies Globally

AI poses risks to democracy, but also offers opportunities for positive transformation in governance and politics. Authors Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier explore the impact of AI in their book Rewiring Democracy.

The Future of Fiction: UK Novelists Fear AI Takeover

University of Cambridge study reveals authors' work used without permission to train AI language models. UK novelists fear AI could replace their work entirely, according to the report from the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Students vs. AI: The Battle for Education

University of Staffordshire students feel 'robbed of knowledge and enjoyment' as AI teaches coding module, with suspicious signs including file names and rogue voiceover accents. James and Owen, part of 41 students, took the course to become cybersecurity experts or software engineers through a government-funded apprenticeship program.

Revolutionizing Deviation Management with AI on AWS

MSD's Digital Manufacturing Data Science team at Merck & Co. streamlines deviation management with generative AI, enhancing efficiency and maintaining GMP standards in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Industry trend: AI assists in optimizing complex processes, improving outcomes, and reducing time and resource investments in critical areas like deviation management.

AI Zoo: Identifying Over a Million Species

Berger-Wolf's BioCLIP 2 model, trained on the largest organism dataset, can arrange species by traits and relationships, aiding conservation efforts. The open-source model was downloaded over 45,000 times last month, showcasing its potential as a powerful research tool at NeurIPS AI conference.