tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87506990421640557222024-03-17T23:04:12.651-04:00Ethics in a Tangled Web (ETW)Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures.
In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JDKip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.comBlogger4619125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-42509031127833362572024-03-14T13:31:00.003-04:002024-03-14T13:33:31.688-04:00Public Libraries Saw 92 Percent Increase In Number of Titles Targeted for Censorship Over The Previous Year; American Library Association (ALA) Press Release, March 14, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">American Library Association (ALA) Press Release; <span style="color: #111111; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2024/03/american-library-association-reports-record-number-unique-book-titles">Public Libraries Saw 92 Percent Increase In Number of Titles Targeted for Censorship Over The Previous Year</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #494949;">The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor</span><span style="color: #494949;"> </span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4,240 unique book titles* </strong><span style="color: #494949;">in schools and libraries. This tops the previous high from 2022, when 2,571 unique titles were targeted for censorship. </span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom documented <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1,247 demands </strong>to censor library books, materials, and resources in 2023. Four key trends emerged from the data gathered from 2023 censorship reports: </span></p><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.75; list-style: outside; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4.8rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Pressure groups in 2023 focused on public libraries in addition to targeting school libraries. The number of titles targeted for censorship at public libraries increased by 92 percent over the previous year; school libraries saw an 11 percent increase.</span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Groups and individuals demanding the censorship of multiple titles, often dozens or hundreds at a time, drove this surge. </span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Titles representing the voices and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals made up 47 percent of those targeted in censorship attempts. </span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There were attempts to censor more than 100 titles in each of these 17 states: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.</span></li></ul><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“The reports from librarians and educators in the field make it clear that the organized campaigns to ban books aren’t over, and that we must all stand together to preserve our right to choose what we read,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “Each demand to ban a book is a demand to deny each person’s constitutionally protected right to choose and read books that raise important issues and lift up the voices of those who are often silenced. By joining initiatives like Unite Against Book Bans and other organizations that support libraries and schools, we can end this attack on essential community institutions and our civil liberties."</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">ALA will unveil its highly anticipated list of the top 10 most challenged books in the U.S. on Monday, April 8, which is Right to Read Day of <a data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="604267263e520ca59416d0a9" href="https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Library Week</a>, along with its full State of America's Libraries Report.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"Every challenge to a library book is an attack on our freedom to read. The books being targeted again focus on LGBTQ+ and people of color. Our communities and our country are stronger because of diversity. Libraries that reflect their communities' diversity promote learning and empathy that some people want to hide or eliminate,” said ALA President Emily Drabinski. “Libraries are vital institutions to each and every community in this country, and library professionals, who have dedicated their lives to protecting our right to read, are facing threats to their employment and well-being." </span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In response to the surge of book challenges and efforts to restrict access to information, ALA launched <a data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="604267263e520ca59416d0a9" href="https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unite Against Book Bans</a>, a national initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship. The coalition will mark its second anniversary during National Library Week.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494949; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For more information about ALA and its intellectual freedom efforts, visit <a data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="604267263e520ca59416d0a9" href="http://www.ala.org/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.ala.org</a>. For a breakdown for censorship challenges by state visit <a data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="604267263e520ca59416d0a9" href="https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/17024101/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this heat map</a>."</span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-5785859102699393442024-03-14T12:05:00.001-04:002024-03-14T12:05:22.440-04:00The Dubious Ethics of “the World’s Most Ethical Companies”; The Nation, March 14, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a class="article-title__author" href="https://www.thenation.com/authors/jess-mcallen/" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(232, 25, 43), rgb(232, 25, 43)); background-position: center 90%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 0px; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; transition: background-size 0.2s;">JESS MCALLEN</a> , The Nation; <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/the-dubious-ethics-of-the-worlds-most-ethical-companies/">The Dubious Ethics of “the World’s Most Ethical Companies”</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white;">Ethisphere, a for-profit institution started in 2006, which describes itself as a tool to “accelerate ethical business,” has expanded significantly since its creation. In addition to producing its yearly list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere hosts a podcast (</span><em style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Ethicast</em><span style="background-color: white;">), a newsletter (“Ethisphere Insights”), and runs the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, which allows members to access a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMYxl5WqQIs&list=PLbaF22DTAwE9jRVJga6BofOYkXUAR5VUj&index=24" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(232, 25, 43), rgb(232, 25, 43)); background-position: center 90%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 0.063rem; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; transition: background-size 0.2s 0.1s, box-shadow 0.5s;">“concierge” service</a><span style="background-color: white;"> where business executives can ponder ethical quandaries (“How do I measure and assess third-party risk?”) There is also a Global Ethics Summit, which occurs in tandem with the honoree gala. “It becomes evermore necessary to have a discussion about ethics,” the </span><a aria-label="2024 summit agenda - Link opens in new tab" href="https://attendges.com/schedule/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(232, 25, 43), rgb(232, 25, 43)); background-position: center 90%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 0.063rem; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; transition: background-size 0.2s 0.1s, box-shadow 0.5s;" target="_blank">2024 summit agenda</a><span style="background-color: white;"> reads, “and how we can maintain morality in our world.” Both nonprofits and for-profit companies can apply, with the exception of NGOs, government agencies, and nonprofit colleges and universities...</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Some of this year’s honorees include...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) was awarded for the sixth time, despite being ordered to pay the federal government $8.5 million last year in </span><a aria-label="a lawsuit - Link opens in new tab" href="https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/upmc-surgeon-pay-85m-settle-whistleblower-lawsuit-over-concurrent-surgeries/643715/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(232, 25, 43), rgb(232, 25, 43)); background-position: center 90%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 0.063rem; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; transition: background-size 0.2s 0.1s, box-shadow 0.5s;" target="_blank">a lawsuit</a><span style="background-color: white;"> over falsely billing federal programs, as well as jeopardizing patient health. In January of this year, a nurse filed </span><a aria-label="a lawsuit - Link opens in new tab" href="https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/nurse-sues-upmc-monopoly-labor-abuse-pennsylvania/705287/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(232, 25, 43), rgb(232, 25, 43)); background-position: center 90%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 0.063rem; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; transition: background-size 0.2s 0.1s, box-shadow 0.5s;" target="_blank">a lawsuit</a><span style="background-color: white;"> against the hospital for the UPMC’s unfair business practices."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-63864148678725726792024-03-14T11:59:00.002-04:002024-03-14T12:07:15.223-04:00Rep. Ken Buck says he will not serve out rest of term, narrowing GOP majority; The Washington Post, March 14, 2024<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="dib items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><span class="left" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dib font-xxs" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><a class="wpds-c-cNdzuP wpds-c-cNdzuP-ejzZdU-isLink-true" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/amy-b-wang/?itid=ai_top_wangab" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray0); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px;">Amy B Wang</a></div><span class="wpds-c-kpjDGe wpds-c-kpjDGe-fSGdIc-isSmall-false wpds-c-kpjDGe-icNdzuP-css" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span></span></div><div class="dib items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><span class="left" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dib font-xxs" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><a class="wpds-c-cNdzuP wpds-c-cNdzuP-ejzZdU-isLink-true" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/patrick-svitek/?itid=ai_top_svitekp" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray0); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px;">Patrick Svitek</a></div></span></div>, The Washington Post; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/12/ken-buck-leaving-congress/">Rep. Ken Buck says he will not serve out rest of term, narrowing GOP majority</a></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"“Our nation is on a collision course with reality, and a steadfast commitment to truth, even uncomfortable truths, is the only way forward,” Buck said then. “Too many Republican leaders are lying to America.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Buck also cited Republicans’ downplaying the <a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/january-6-capitol-riot/?itid=lk_inline_manual_26" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Jan. 6</a>, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in which a pro-Trump mob sought to stop the certification of Biden’s electoral win, as well as the GOP’s claims that the ensuing prosecutions amounted to a weaponization of the justice system.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“These insidious narratives breed widespread cynicism and erode Americans’ confidence in the rule of law,” Buck said. “It is impossible for the Republican Party to confront our problems and offer a course correction for the future while being obsessively fixated on retribution and vengeance for contrived injustices of the past.”"</span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-37621456371600253632024-03-12T05:49:00.004-04:002024-03-12T05:57:23.507-04:00Florida settles lawsuit after challenge to ‘don’t say gay’ law; Associated Press via The Guardian, March 11, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Associated Press via The Guardian ; <span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/florida-dont-say-gay-lawsuit">Florida settles lawsuit after challenge to ‘don’t say gay’ law</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;">Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida board of education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law does not prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral – meaning what applies to LGBTQ+ people also applies to heterosexual people – and that it doesn’t apply to library books not being used for instruction in the classroom.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The law also doesn’t apply to books with incidental references to LGBTQ+ characters or same-sex couples, “as they are not instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity any more than a math problem asking students to add bushels of apples is instruction on apple farming”, according to the settlement.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: arial;">“What this settlement does, is, it re-establishes the fundamental principal, that I hope all Americans agree with, which is every kid in this country is entitled to an education at a public school where they feel safe, their dignity is respected and where their families and parents are welcomed,”</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: arial;"> </span><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://apnews.com/hub/roberta-kaplan" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Roberta Kaplan</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: arial;">, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in an interview."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-88876017403495117772024-03-12T05:37:00.003-04:002024-03-12T05:39:54.455-04:00The librarian who couldn’t take it anymore; The Washington Post, November 11, 2023<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a class="wpds-c-cqnWhH" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ruby-cramer/" rel="author" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image: none !important; border-left-color: currentcolor !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: medium !important; border-right-color: currentcolor !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: medium !important; border-top-color: currentcolor !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: medium !important; border: medium; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;">Ruby Cramer</a>, The Washington Post; <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/florida-book-bans-school-rules/">The librarian who couldn’t take it anymore</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"When she had decided to become a librarian almost 10 years ago, it was for a simple reason: She loved to read. Now she watched as the work she did at a high school in Central Florida became part of a national debate. There were fights going on over democracy and fascism. There were parents and school board members arguing on social media and in meetings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wasn’t just passing laws but using them to run for president. To Tania, the pure act of reading was becoming more and more political, and as a result, she had to spend much of her time reviewing the books on her shelves — not to suggest one to a student but to ask herself whether the content was too mature for the teenagers at her school. Then she had moved on to the books in each teacher’s classroom, because as of this year, the state considered those books to be part of the library, too.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">All of this took time. The librarian’s job was expanding even as she felt it was shrinking to a series of rote tasks: She would copy a book’s ISBN number into a peer-review database. She would decide whether to mark it with the thumb-size red sticker, provided to her by the district, that read “M” for “mature.” If a book wasn’t listed in a database, she would review it by hand, and then she would start again with the next book. In those hours, the job became a series of keystrokes, and she began to feel more like a censor than a librarian...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Somewhere else in the school, interviews were going on for her replacement. Three candidates were coming in. The principal had asked Tania to send him interview questions. She emailed her district supervisor for ideas and received a document in her inbox, the list of questions they kept on file.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“What do you see as the role of the librarian in the school setting?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“What kind of library attracts students, staff and parents?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Nothing about the laws, nothing about reviewing books, nothing about book bans at all. Tania scrolled through the questions and added one more. “What is your stance on Censorship?” she wrote, though she had no way of knowing whether it would be asked, or how the next librarian might answer."</span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-58278094053416644562024-03-11T10:32:00.007-04:002024-03-11T16:34:54.741-04:00Princess Catherine Apologizes, Saying She Edited Image; The New York Times, March 11, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/mark-landler" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Landler</a>, The New York Times; <span style="color: #121212; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/world/europe/princess-kate-middleton-photo-edit-apology.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20240311&instance_id=117299&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=12918174&segment_id=160442&te=1&user_id=81b98557bcacf739c2d5afd319b01c60">Princess Catherine Apologizes, Saying She Edited Image</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #363636;">Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/world/europe/princess-catherine-photo.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">image had been manipulated</a><span style="color: #363636;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #363636;">The decision to recall the photo reignited a storm of speculation about Catherine, who has not been seen in public since she had</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/world/europe/princess-kate-middleton-abdominal-surgery.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">abdominal surgery</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">nearly two months ago. In her statement, the 42-year-old princess chalked up the alteration to a photographer’s innocent desire to retouch the image</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” Catherine wrote in a post on social media. “I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The photo, which marked Mother’s Day in Britain, depicted a smiling Catherine surrounded by her children, George, Charlotte and Louis. Hours after Kensington Palace released the photo, The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse issued advisories urging news organizations to remove the image."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-21477074288921172772024-03-09T06:46:00.003-05:002024-03-09T06:46:22.412-05:00The robots are coming. 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And that’s a good thing.</a></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<em style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this excerpt from the new book, </em><span style="background-color: white;">The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots</span><em style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, CSAIL Director Daniela Rus explores how robots can extend the reach of human capabi</em><em style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lities...</em></span></div><div><em style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></em></div><div><em style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><p style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These examples of how we can pair the heart with the chip to extend our perceptual reach range from the whimsical to the profound. And the potential for other applications is vast. Environmental and government organizations tasked with protecting our landscapes could dispatch eyes to autonomously monitor land for illegal deforestation without putting people at risk. Remote workers could use robots to extend their hands into dangerous environments, manipulating or moving objects at hazardous nuclear sites. Scientists could peek or listen into the secret lives of the many amazing species on this planet. Or we could harness our efforts to find a way to remotely experience Paris or Tokyo or Tangier. The possibilities are endless and endlessly exciting. We just need effort, ingenuity, strategy, and the most precious resource of all.</p><div class="piano__post_body" id="piano__post_body-mobile-4" style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, not funding, although that is helpful.</p><p style="background: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We need time."</p></span></em></div>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-16533284387161496272024-03-07T08:10:00.003-05:002024-03-07T08:10:17.326-05:00Introducing CopyrightCatcher, the first Copyright Detection API for LLMs; 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display: inline-block; opacity: 1;">L</span><span class="char" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; opacity: 1;">L</span><span class="char" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; opacity: 1;">M</span><span class="char" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; opacity: 1;">s</span></span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; font-family: arial;">Managing risks from unintended copyright infringement in LLM outputs should be a central focus for companies deploying LLMs in production.</span></span></p><ul role="list" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 1.5rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On an adversarial copyright test designed by Patronus AI researchers, we found that state-of-the-art LLMs generate copyrighted content at an alarmingly high rate 😱</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><code style="box-sizing: border-box;">OpenAI’s GPT-4</code></strong> produced copyrighted content on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">44%</strong> of the prompts.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><code style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mistral’s Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1</code></strong> produced copyrighted content on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">22%</strong> of the prompts.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><code style="box-sizing: border-box;">Anthropic’s Claude-2.1</code></strong> produced copyrighted content on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">8%</strong> of the prompts.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.25rem;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><code style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meta’s Llama-2-70b-chat</code></strong> produced copyrighted content on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">10%</strong> of the prompts.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Check out <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">CopyrightCatcher,</strong> our solution to detect potential copyright violations in LLMs. <a href="https://copyrightcatcher.patronus.ai/" style="-webkit-background-clip: text; -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; background-clip: text; background-image: linear-gradient(131deg,var(--gradient-color--purple),var(--gradient-color--blue)); box-sizing: border-box;">Here’s the public demo</a>, with open source model inference powered by <a href="https://docs.databricks.com/en/machine-learning/foundation-models/index.html" style="-webkit-background-clip: text; -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; background-clip: text; background-image: linear-gradient(131deg,var(--gradient-color--purple),var(--gradient-color--blue)); box-sizing: border-box;">Databricks Foundation Model APIs</a>. 🔥</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">LLM training data often contains copyrighted works, and it is pretty easy to get an LLM to generate exact reproductions from these texts<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span>. It is critical to catch these reproductions, since they pose significant legal and reputational risks for companies that build and use LLMs in production systems<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span>. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft have all faced copyright lawsuits on LLM generations from authors<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">3</span>, music publishers<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">4</span>, and more recently, the New York Times<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">5</span>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1f1f1f;">To check whether LLMs respond to your prompts with copyrighted text, you can use </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1f1f1f;">CopyrightCatcher</strong><span style="color: #1f1f1f;">. It detects when LLMs generate exact reproductions of content from text sources like books, and highlights any copyrighted text in LLM outputs. Check out our public CopyrightCatcher demo <a href="https://copyrightcatcher.patronus.ai">here</a>!</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-84463393513468894022024-03-07T08:02:00.002-05:002024-03-07T08:02:21.368-05:00Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst; CNBC, March 6, 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: arial;">Hayden Field, CNBC; </span><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/gpt-4-researchers-tested-leading-ai-models-for-copyright-infringement.html" style="font-family: arial;">Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="font-family: arial;">The company, founded by ex-Meta researchers, specializes in evaluation and testing for large language models — the technology behind generative AI products.</span></span></p><span class="transition-fade-appear-done transition-fade-enter-done" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="BoxInline-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 300px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="BoxInline-container" data-module="mps-slot" id="BoxInline-ArticleBody-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 300px;"></div></span></div></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Alongside the release of its new tool, CopyrightCatcher, Patronus AI released results of an adversarial test meant to showcase how often four leading AI models respond to user queries using copyrighted text.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The four models it tested were OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 2, Meta’s Llama 2 and Mistral AI’s Mixtral.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“We pretty much found copyrighted content across the board, across all models that we evaluated, whether it’s open source or closed source,” Rebecca Qian, Patronus AI’s cofounder and CTO, who previously worked on responsible AI research at Meta, told CNBC in an interview.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Qian added, “Perhaps what was surprising is that we found that OpenAI’s GPT-4, which is arguably the most powerful model that’s being used by a lot of companies and also individual developers, produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts that we constructed.”"</span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-8837286499034342122024-03-07T06:28:00.005-05:002024-03-07T06:28:37.051-05:00Public Symposium on AI and IP; United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Wednesday, March 27, 2024 10 AM - 3 PM PT/1 PM - 6 PM ET<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: arial;">United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: -0.04em;"><a href="https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events/public-symposium-ai-and-ip">Public Symposium on AI and IP</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b;">The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership will hold a public symposium on intellectual property (IP) and AI. The event will take place virtually and in-person at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, California, on March 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PT. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The symposium will facilitate the USPTO’s efforts to implement its obligations under the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: purple; font-weight: 600;"><a class="ext" data-extlink="" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: purple;" target="_blank">President’s Executive Order (E.O.) 14110</a> </span>“Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” The event will include representation from the Copyright Office, build on previous AI/Emerging Technologies (ET) partnership events, and feature panel discussions by experts in the field of patent, trademark, and copyright law that focus on:</span></p><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A comparison of copyright and patent law approaches to the type and level of human contribution needed to satisfy authorship and inventorship requirements;</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ongoing copyright litigation involving generative AI; and </span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A discussion of laws and policy considerations surrounding name, image, and likeness (NIL) issues, including the intersection of NIL and generative AI.</span></span></li></ol><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">This event is free and open to the public, but in-person attendance is limited, so </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: purple;"><a class="ext" data-extlink="" data-target="#modalExtLink" data-toggle="modal" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-symposium-on-ai-and-ip-tickets-848489865027?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: purple; font-weight: 600;" target="_blank">register early</a>"</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-49157666589301303102024-03-04T11:03:00.007-05:002024-03-04T11:05:26.993-05:00Beaufort, South Carolina, schools return most books to shelves after attempt to ban 97; CBS News, March 3, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Scott Pelley, CBS; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/beaufort-south-carolina-schools-return-most-books-to-shelves-after-attempt-to-ban-97-60-minutes-transcript/">Beaufort, South Carolina, schools return most books to shelves after attempt to ban 97</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010;">Ruth-Naomi James: I'm a combat veteran, right? There's no way I went to Iraq thinking that when I moved back home, I would have to do this to make sure that the freedom that we fight for in this country is taken out of the hands of students and parents.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The final votes came this past December. Five books were judged too graphic in sex or violence. But 92 returned to the schools. Dick Geier says this lesson reaches beyond the classroom.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Dick Geier: Diversity brings tolerance. The more you understand what other people think and realize that what they say is important, but who they are, what their story, what their background is. The more you know that, the more you see the power of diversity. And then, be kind, and be understanding. And don't make judgments because you haven't lived their story. They have.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the city that's lived a story of letters and learning, one book that was banned and restored was "The Fixer," a novel of antisemitism that won the Pulitzer prize. In its pages, the book's hero expresses this opinion, "There are no wrong books." "What's wrong is the fear of them."</span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-79930362353509367732024-02-29T17:00:00.002-05:002024-02-29T17:00:15.557-05:00The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sue OpenAI for copyright infringement; The Guardian, February 28, 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a data-link-name="auto tag link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-robins-early" rel="author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(199, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nick Robins-Early</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, The Guardian ; </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/28/media-outlets-sue-openai-copyright-infringement">The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sue OpenAI for copyright infringement</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;">OpenAI and</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;"> </span><a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/microsoft" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;">are facing a fresh round of lawsuits from news publishers over allegations that their generative artificial intelligence products violated copyright laws and illegally trained by using journalists’ work. Three progressive US outlets – the Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet – filed suits in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, demanding compensation from the tech companies.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;">The news outlets claim that the companies in effect plagiarized copyright-protected articles to develop and operate</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;"> </span><a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/chatgpt" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentcolor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentcolor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ChatGPT</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212;">, which has become OpenAI’s most prominent generative AI tool. They allege that ChatGPT was trained not to respect copyright, ignores proper attribution and fails to notify users when the service’s answers are generated using journalists’ protected work."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-78342491619887544392024-02-29T16:54:00.001-05:002024-02-29T16:54:10.639-05:00How scientists are using facial-recognition AI to track humpback whales; NPR, February 29, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <a data-metrics="{"action":"Click Byline","category":"Story Metadata"}" href="https://www.npr.org/people/803934365/lauren-sommer" rel="author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.28px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lauren Sommer</a>, NPR; <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234718984/humpback-whale-decline-pacific-climate-change?ft=nprml&f=1019">How scientists are using facial-recognition AI to track humpback whales</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Photographs are key for counting whales. As they dive deep, humpbacks raise their tails out of the water, revealing markings and patterns unique to each individual. Scientists typically identify whales photo by photo, matching the tails in a painstaking process.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Cheeseman figured that technology could do that more quickly. He started </span><a href="https://happywhale.com/home" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Happy Whale</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">, which uses artificial intelligence-powered image recognition to identify whales. The project pulled together about 200,000 photos of humpback whales. Many came from scientists who had built large image catalogs over the years. Others came from whale watching groups and </span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/citizenscience/citizen-science.htm" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">citizen scientists</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">, since the website is designed to share the identity of a whale and where it's been seen."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-14615771618718352402024-02-29T16:48:00.006-05:002024-02-29T16:50:00.339-05:00Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users"; NPR, February 28, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a data-metrics="{"action":"Click Byline","category":"Story Metadata"}" href="https://www.npr.org/people/638550790/bobby-allyn" rel="author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.28px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bobby Allyn</a> , NPR; <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234532775/google-gemini-offended-users-images-race">Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's AI image results "offended our users"</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Gemini, which was previously named Bard, is also an AI chatbot, similar to OpenAI's hit service ChatGPT.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The text-generating capabilities of Gemini also came under scrutiny after several outlandish responses went viral online...</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In his note to employees at Google, Pichai wrote that when Gemini is re-released to the public, he hopes the service is in better shape. </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"No AI is perfect, especially at this emerging stage of the industry's development, but we know the bar is high for us and we will keep at it for however long it takes," Pichai wrote."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-73166082182135900662024-02-20T17:15:00.003-05:002024-02-20T17:17:35.352-05:00He Hunts Sloppy Scientists. He’s Finding Lots of Prey.; The New York Times, February 2, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/matt-richtel" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Richtel</a>, The New York Times ; <span style="color: #121212; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/science/sholto-science-papers-misconduct.html">He Hunts Sloppy Scientists. He’s Finding Lots of Prey.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #363636;">Sholto David, 32, has a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from Newcastle University in England. He is also developing an expertise in spotting errors in scientific papers. Most recently, and notably,</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/health/dana-farber-cancer-studies-retractions.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">he discovered flawed or manipulated data</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">in studies conducted by top executives at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The institute said that it was requesting retraction of six manuscripts and had found 31 other manuscripts that required corrections.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">From his home in Wales, Dr. David scours new research publications for images that are mislabeled and manipulated, and he regularly finds mistakes, or malfeasance, in some of the most prominent scientific journals. Accuracy is vital, as peer-reviewed papers often provide the evidence for drug trials or further lines of research. Dr. David said that the frequency of such errors suggests an underlying problem for science.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">His interview with The New York Times has been edited and condensed...</span></span></span></p><p><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10" style="border: 0px; color: #363636; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Does this call into question the peer-review process?</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I think that’s something that people need to think about. These are top scientific journals with errors that escaped peer review. Maybe the peer reviewers are looking for other things. Maybe they like to look at the methods or the conclusions more carefully than the results. But, yeah, it does make me think that people should question how effective the peer-review process has been."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-49765901316898368582024-02-19T12:57:00.000-05:002024-02-19T12:57:35.534-05:00The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned; The New York Times, February 18, 202<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636; font-weight: 700;">Rachel Kadish</span>, The New York Times; <span style="color: #121212; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/radical-empathy-fiction.html">The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636;">Unflinching empathy, which is the muscle the lesson is designed to exercise, is a prerequisite for literature strong enough to wrestle with the real world. On the page it allows us to spot signs of humanity; off the page it can teach us to start a conversation with the strangest of strangers, to thrive alongside difference. It can even affect those life or death choices we make instinctively in a crisis. This kind of empathy has nothing to do with being nice — and it’s not for the faint of heart."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-22709399451286614192024-02-19T12:50:00.003-05:002024-02-19T16:18:58.124-05:00MAGA’s Violent Threats Are Warping Life in America; The New York Times, February 18, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-french" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">David French</a>, The New York Times; <span style="color: #121212; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/magas-violent-threats-are-warping-life-in-america.html">MAGA’s Violent Threats Are Warping Life in America</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: arial;">So we called the local sheriff, shared the threat, and asked if the department could send someone to check our house.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Minutes later, a young deputy called to tell me all was quiet at our home. When I asked if he would mind checking back frequently, he said he’d stay in front of our house all night. Then he asked, “Why did you get this threat?”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I hesitated before I told him. Our community is so MAGA that I had a pang of concern about his response. “I’m a columnist,” I said, “and we’ve had lots of threats ever since I wrote against Donald Trump.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The deputy paused for a moment. “I’m a vet,” he said, “and I volunteered to serve because I believe in our Constitution. I believe in free speech.” And then he said words I’ll never forget: “You keep speaking, and I’ll stand guard.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I didn’t know that deputy’s politics and I didn’t need to. When I heard his words, I thought, that’s it. That’s the way through. Sometimes we are called to speak. Sometimes we are called to stand guard. All the time we can at least comfort those under threat, telling them with words and deeds that they are not alone. If we do that, we can persevere. Otherwise, the fear will be too much for good people to bear."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-9859994321303300802024-02-19T12:41:00.004-05:002024-02-19T16:25:04.374-05:00Arrested for Leaving Flowers, Navalny Mourners Fear Worse to Come; The New York Times, February 18, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/valerie-hopkins" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Valerie Hopkins</a>, The New York Times ; <span style="color: #121212; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/world/europe/russia-arrests-navalny-memorials.html">Arrested for Leaving Flowers, Navalny Mourners Fear Worse to Come</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636;">As thousands of Russians across the country tried to give voice to their grief for Mr. Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic penal colony on Friday, Russian police officers cracked down, temporarily detaining hundreds and placing more than two dozen in jail...</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“Those who are detaining people are afraid of any opinion that isn’t connected to propaganda, to the pervading ideology,” said Lena, 31, who brought a sticker to the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to victims of political repression in the Soviet Union. “Don’t give up,” read the sticker — part of a message Mr. Navalny once recorded in case of his death."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-53084790869863851842024-02-18T07:00:00.002-05:002024-02-18T07:00:51.383-05:00 IT body proposes that AI pros get leashed and licensed to uphold ethics; The Register, February 15, 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Paul Kunert, The Register; </span><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/bcs_ai_register_ethics/" style="font-family: arial;">IT body proposes that AI pros get leashed and licensed to uphold ethics</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"Creating a register of licensed AI professionals to uphold ethical standards and securing whistleblowing channels to call out bad management are two policies that could prevent a Post Office-style scandal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So says industry body BCS – formerly the British Computer Society – which reckons licenses based on an independent framework of ethics would promote transparency among software engineers and their bosses.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"We have a register of doctors who can be struck off," said Rashik Parmar MBE, CEO at BCS. "AI professionals already have a big role in our life chances, so why shouldn't they be licensed and registered too?"...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The importance of AI ethics was amplified by the <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/01/fujitsu_finance_chief_apologises_horizon_inquiry/" style="background: repeat; border: medium; color: #a30000;" target="_blank">Post Office scandal</a>, says the BCS boss, "where computer generated evidence was used by non-IT specialists to prosecute sub postmasters with tragic results."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For anyone not aware of the outrageous wrongdoing committed by the Post Office, it bought the bug-ridden Horizon accounting system in 1999 from ICL, a company that was subsequently bought by Fujitsu. Hundreds of local Post Office branch managers were subsequently wrongfully convicted of fraud when Horizon was to blame."</span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-50763786176706168672024-02-17T15:38:00.005-05:002024-02-17T15:38:45.208-05:00The New York Times’ AI copyright lawsuit shows that forgiveness might not be better than permission; The Conversation, February 13, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <span class="fn author-name" itemprop="name" style="background: repeat; border: 0px; color: #4b4b4e; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/peter-vaughan-1510217" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="color: #4b4b4e; outline: currentcolor; text-decoration: none;">Peter Vaughan</a>, </span><span style="color: #4b4b4e;">Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, The Conversation</span>; ; <strong style="background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(56, 56, 56); color: #383838; left: -12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 10;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-new-york-times-ai-copyright-lawsuit-shows-that-forgiveness-might-not-be-better-than-permission-222904">The New York Times’ AI copyright lawsuit shows that forgiveness might not be better than permission</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"The lawsuit also presents a novel argument – not advanced by other, similar cases – that’s related to something called </span><a href="https://www.ibm.com/topics/ai-hallucinations" style="color: #4b4b4e; font-family: arial; outline: currentcolor; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">“hallucinations”</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, where AI systems generate false or misleading information but present it as fact. This argument could in fact be one of the most potent in the case.</span></span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The NYT case in particular raises three interesting takes on the usual approach. First, that due to their reputation for trustworthy news and information, NYT content has enhanced value and desirability as training data for use in AI. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Second, that due to its paywall, the reproduction of articles on request is commercially damaging. Third, that <a href="https://chat.openai.com/auth/login" style="color: #4b4b4e; outline: currentcolor; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">ChatGPT</a> “hallucinations” are causing reputational damage to the New York Times through, effectively, false attribution. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is not just another generative AI copyright dispute. The first argument presented by the NYT is that the training data used by OpenAI is protected by copyright, and so they claim the training phase of ChatGPT infringed copyright. We have seen this type of argument <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/getty-images-lawsuit-says-stability-ai-misused-photos-train-ai-2023-02-06/" style="color: #4b4b4e; outline: currentcolor; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">run before</a> in other disputes."</span></p></div>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-8297780742332507392024-02-17T15:19:00.003-05:002024-02-17T15:21:42.203-05:00A new documentary shows the impact of book bans in Florida public schools on the kids; NPR, November 25, 2023<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a data-metrics="{"action":"Click Byline","category":"Story Metadata"}" href="https://www.npr.org/people/3874941/scott-simon" rel="author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.28px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott Simon</a>, NPR; <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/25/1215185319/a-new-documentary-shows-the-impact-of-book-bans-in-florida-public-schools-on-the">A new documentary shows the impact of book bans in Florida public schools on the kids</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">In her directorial debut, Sheila Nevins' chronicles the impact of book bans in Florida public schools. She tells NPR's Scott Simon what inspired her to profile those most affected — the students...</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>GRACE LINN</b>: My husband, Robert Nichol (ph), was killed in action in World War II, defending our democracy, constitution and freedoms. One of the freedoms that the Nazis crushed was the freedom to read the books that they banned.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>NEVINS</b>: And I thought, holy [expletive], this woman is out there doing something, and I'm doing nothing. And I know I'm only in my 80s, for heaven's sake. And here's this woman fighting for young people to be able to read the books that she read and I read and possibly you read, Scott, that in many ways change our lives and make us know about the world we live in. And I thought, I've got to grab her. I've got to get her. And I've got to get some of these kids who've lost the books or who have been deprived of the books to read them and to see how they feel about what they're missing.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>SIMON</b>: Some of the books that are mentioned in the course of the film that have been banned include "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Maus," "The Kite Runner," "The Life Of Rosa Parks," "The Handmaid's Tale." I can't come up with a better question than why?</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>NEVINS</b>: Interesting, isn't it? Why would you deprive children of this information? If you want them to grow up to be like yourself, and yourself has a limited worldview - or at least the worldview that you believe is the worldview they should have - then you take out anything that you would find as questionable - Planned Parenthood, race, religious problems, difficulties. You know, you would simply want to make your child not aware of all these things that make the world a sort of wondrous, difficult, complex and often painful world that we all live in. I'm sort of quoting the kids, which is really odd. How can you deprive me - I'm 12 or 14 or 15 - of information?"</span></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-88190846509390820882024-02-16T21:40:00.003-05:002024-02-16T21:40:15.158-05:005 Presidential Libraries That Offer Culture, History and ‘Labs of Democracy’; The New York Times, February 13, 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/lauren-sloss" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lauren Sloss</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, The New York Times ; </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/travel/presidential-libraries.html">5 Presidential Libraries That Offer Culture, History and ‘Labs of Democracy’</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: arial;">As repositories of valuable historical documents and other records, U.S. presidential libraries have long been important destinations for scholars. But you don’t have to be an academic or even a history buff to appreciate these destinations, as many increasingly offer museums, special exhibitions and unique programming — ranging from interactive</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: arial;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://situationroom.archives.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">situation room experiences to musical performances</a><span style="color: #363636; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: arial;">— to the general public.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #363636;">The first library was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt and opened to the public in 1941. Every administration since has created one of its own. (President Hoover, liking what he saw of F.D.R.’s project, established his own retroactively, in 1962.) Fifteen</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">libraries</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">are managed by the Office of Presidential Libraries, a part of the</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.archives.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">National Archives and Records Administration</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">— the Presidential Libraries Act, passed in 1955, established the system of privately built and federally maintained institutions — and 13 are currently open to visitors. There are additional museums, historic monuments and sites dedicated to other presidents, like the</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nps.gov/jaga/index.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">James Garfield National Historic Site</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">in Mentor, Ohio, and some have archival components, like the</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">in Springfield, Ill.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #363636;">“President Reagan called the libraries labs of democracy because they explain how decisions are made and how policies are executed,” said</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.archives.gov/about/organization/senior-staff/archivist" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Colleen Shogan</a><span style="color: #363636;">, the archivist of the United States. “They give us the opportunity to learn about American democracy, and how the government functions.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With Presidents’ Day fast approaching, consider planning a visit to a presidential library. Here are five to start."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-91958035103227257592024-02-16T14:45:00.004-05:002024-02-16T14:45:39.964-05:00How to Think About Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases; LawFare, February 15, 2024<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors/psamuelson" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 106, 114); color: #006a72; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">Pamela Samuelson</a>, LawFare; <span style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030;"><a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-to-think-about-remedies-in-the-generative-ai-copyright-cases">How to Think About Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030;">So far, commentators have paid virtually no attention to the remedies being sought in the generative AI copyright complaints. This piece shines a light on them."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-13265306711910480852024-02-16T13:11:00.004-05:002024-02-16T13:11:40.334-05:00A Columbia Surgeon’s Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Flawed Data.; The New York Times, February 16, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/benjamin-mueller" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benjamin Mueller</a>, The New York Times; <span style="color: #121212; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/science/columbia-cancer-surgeon-sam-yoon-flawed-data.html">A Columbia Surgeon’s Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Flawed Data.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #363636;">Problems with the study were severe enough that its publisher, after finding that the paper violated ethics guidelines,</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">formally withdrew</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">it within a few months of its publication in 2021. The study was then wiped from the internet, leaving behind a</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-therapy/fulltext/S1525-0016(21)00464-0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">barren web page</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">that said nothing about the reasons for its removal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #363636;">As it turned out, the flawed study was part of a pattern. Since 2008, two of its authors — Dr. Sam S. Yoon, chief of a</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://columbiasurgery.org/about/division-surgical-oncology" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">cancer surgery division</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">at Columbia University’s medical center, and a more junior cancer biologist — have collaborated with a rotating cast of researchers on a combined 26 articles that a British scientific sleuth</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://pubpeer.com/publications/632E298E03E876ADF9AEC079DADCCD#3" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">has</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://pubpeer.com/publications/3D73435F407FA694BEA3D7B46ED4C0#7" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">publicly</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://forbetterscience.com/2023/11/01/memorial-sloan-kettering-paper-mill/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">flagged</a><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><span style="color: #363636;">for containing suspect data. A medical journal</span><span style="color: #363636;"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.oncotarget.com/article/28560/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">retracted one of them</a><span style="color: #363636;"> this month after inquiries from The New York Times."</span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750699042164055722.post-60928271016153081482024-02-16T07:23:00.002-05:002024-02-16T07:28:46.659-05:00From ethics to outsmarting Chat GPT, state unveils resource for AI in Ohio education; Cleveland.com, February 15, 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a class="byline__authorLink" href="https://www.cleveland.com/staff/lahancock/posts.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #0064d2; cursor: pointer; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.07em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Laura Hancock, cleveland.com">Laura Hancock, cleveland.com</a> ; <span style="color: #2a2a2a; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><a href="https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/02/from-ethics-to-outsmarting-chat-gpt-state-unveils-resource-for-ai-in-ohio-education.html">From ethics to outsmarting Chat GPT, state unveils resource for AI in Ohio education</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.013em;">The state released a guide Thursday to help schools and parents navigate generative artificial intelligence in an ethical manner.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">“When you use the term AI, I know in some people’s minds, it can sound scary,” said Lt. Jon Husted, whose InnovateOhio office worked with private sector organizations to develop the guide...</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.234px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Every technology that’s come into society has been like that.”...</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But AI is the wave of the future, and Husted said it’s important that students are exposed to it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://innovateohio.gov/aitoolkit/ai-toolkit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #0064d2; cursor: pointer; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The AI toolkit</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;">is not mandatory but can be used as a resource for educators and families.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It doesn’t include many prescriptive actions for how to begin teaching and using AI. Rather, it contains sections for parents, teachers and school districts where they can find dozens of sample lessons and discussions about ethics, how to develop policies to keep students safe, and other topics.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;">For instance,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"> </span><a href="https://innovateohio.gov/aitoolkit/toolkit-resources/04-part-4-resources-for-teachers" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #0064d2; cursor: pointer; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">teachers can find a template letter</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;">that they can send to school district officials to communicate how they’re using AI...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(31, 30, 30); color: #1f1e1e; letter-spacing: 0.013em;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.234px;">“Before you use AI in the classroom you will need a plan for a student with privacy, data security, ethics and many other things,” Husted said. “More is needed than just a fun tool in the classroom.”"</span></span></span></p>Kip Currier, PhD, JDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13546991959649855402noreply@blogger.com0