o CIS 3250

Ethics and Computer Science
CIS3250
Syllabus, lectures, and other materials — Spring 2023

From Oxford Online, we find these definitions:

   philosophy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

   ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.

Syllabus and schedule

Syllabus

Class structure

The Canvas class modules are organized by week; new modules are usually published on Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday), and most activities for most modules occur in that week.

Other material

Obligatory xkcd collection:

1390:

Research Ethics


1455:

Trolley Problem


1613:

The Three Laws of Robotics


Online Ethics-oriented Resources

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science

Collection of ethical code URLs from NC State

Computer and Information Ethics (in particular, see the Uniqueness debate between Maner and Johnson)

Virtue Ethics

Deontological Ethics

Consequentialism

AI Alignment

Books

Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot

Norbert Weiner: The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

Soshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Other

Class notes

Excerpt from The Grand Design episode of "Yes, Prime Minister"

Other Readings

2021-08-26: The Myth of a Superhuman AI

2021-08-31: Flying Humanoid Robot

2021-09-02: FTC bans SpyPhone and CEO from surveillance business

2021-09-02: Victory: Federal Trade Commission Bans Stalkerware Company Conducting Business

2021-09-02: I asked GPT3 about COVID-19 — tts responses shocked me

2021-09-07: The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

2021-09-07: Operation Rubicon

2021-09-09: Apple's Bug Bounty Ethics

2021-09-09: Juniper: Mystery Attacks Traced to Pentagon Role and Chinese Hackers

2021-09-16: OpenAI Codex

2021-09-16: Project Debater

2020-02-26: Big Data Provides Personalized Pricing

2021-09-17: Tomorrow's AI will reason like humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

2021-09-23: If you are looking for an outdoors festival for this weekend's predicted nice weather, try Experience Asia Festival, September 25

2021-09-23: We need software updates forever

2021-09-23: AI writes code like human beings, bugs and all

2021-09-23: Ransomeware victims not informed that FBI secretly held REvil decryption key

2021-09-23: AI for weed eradication

2021-09-23: Is computer science misnamed?

2021-09-28: Codex at work

2021-09-28: Mayflower revisited, humans need not apply

2021-09-28: Rajasthan blocks internet for testing

2021-09-28: Who owns the copyright?

2021-09-28: Playform.io

2021-09-28: Meet the artist

2021-09-28: GAN becomes CAN

2021-09-29: Live Stream of Beethoven's 10th Symphony on October 9, 2021. (Starts at 12:55, Tallahassee time.)

2021-09-30: AI comments on AI

2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?

2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?

2021-09-30: Another grand success for AI

2021-09-30: Lethal weapon system may have already killed people

2021-10-05: Rise of one time password interceptions bots

2021-10-05: On the nature of mathematics

2021-10-05: Singapore passes foreign interference law; authorities can block Internet content

2021-10-05: A budget for retaliatory cyberwarfare in the UK

2021-10-07: EU moves on biometric mass surveillance

2021-10-12: The future of work is uniquely human

2021-10-12: The State of Surveillance in 2021

2021-10-12: AI Jobs: on the farm and in the forest

2021-10-12: Precrime in the surveillance state

2021-10-13: Humans need not apply: Nissan's Intelligent Factory

2021-10-13: Nissan's press release

2021-10-14: Ghost Robotics, Inc

2021-10-14: Computerized canines to join Team Tyndall

2021-10-14: Ghost Roboticss now makes a lethal robot dog

2021-10-14: Robot future for military dog handlers?

2021-10-14: America's approach to command and control goes peer-to-peer

2021-10-14: Implementing Response AI in the Department of Defense

2021-10-14: AI Principles for DOD (Background for above document)

2021-10-14: What robot dogs can do

2021-10-18: The Pentagon and AI Oracles

2021-10-19: Racing drones soon will outperform humans?

2021-10-19: False Alarms in the Nuclear Age (2001)

2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)

2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site

2021-10-19: Missouri Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaws in state website

2021-10-19: Brian Krebs take on above story

2021-10-19: Genetic AI algorithm development

2021-10-21: AI and employment: Will college involve fewer professors?

2021-10-21: Today's business world: AI fights ransomware

2021-10-21: The Register's Advertorial for above

2021-10-21: Business practices in 2021: Guns on robots?

2021-10-21: Restaurants and robots

2021-10-26: Wikipedia's list of scholarly publishing stings

2021-10-26: Popper's "Science as Falsification"

2021-10-26: New York Times writer attacked by mysterious malware

2021-10-26: A new, relevant xkcd:

2021-10-26: Empirical observation of negligible fairness–accuracy trade-offs in machine learning for public policy

2021-10-28: US Government Owes Over $100 Million Because of Tray/Cart Patent Infringement

2021-10-28: EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month Award" for the same cart/tray patent

2021-10-28: Patent 6,888,460

2021-10-28: Court decision of 2021-10-28

2021-10-28: FSF: Can you trust?

2021-10-28: EFF: Meditations on Trusted Computing

2021-10-28: Trusted Computing Promise and Risk

2021-11-02: Trusting compilers in 2021 (The paper referenced and a website (cross reference this to the much older IDN homograph_attack

2021-11-02: Analyzing complexity for QEMU

2021-11-02: Drone autonomously fights fires?

2021-11-04: Monetizing all human behavior?

2021-11-04: Open source access, sometimes not legal in Sweden?

2021-11-09: The Skinner Box

2021-11-09: The Arms Trade and Pervasive Surveillance Tools

2021-11-16: DOD and AI Ethics

2021-11-16: Biological computation

2021-11-16: Robots in space

2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, U.S.

2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, Russia

2021-11-29: Xenobots: life meets technology

2021-11-29: Self-replicating robots (CNN version) The paper

2021-11-29: Cyberwar not covered

2022-01-11: Intel Deletes Reference to Xianjiang after Backlash in China

2022-01-11: Facial recognition as a Pareto Technology

2022-01-11: Texas cities experience phishing via qr codes attached parking meters

2022-01-11: Air Tag Tracking

2022-01-13: Autonomous Weapons

2022-01-13: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist, and They Must Be Banned

2022-01-13: Operation Trojan Shield

2022-01-18: U.S. Airlines Warn of Chaos with the rollout of 5G

2022-01-18: Agricultural Autonomy

2022-01-18: Hume AI

2022-01-18: Will AI Destroy Education?

2022-01-20: The most recent SIGCAS newsletter (2021 Fall)

2022-01-20: The robot revolution continues: the worst warehouse job

2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor

2022-01-20: Can a robot be arrested? Hold a patent? Pay income taxes

2022-01-20: IRS to require selfies?

2022-01-20: EFF: Williams versus San Francisco

2022-01-20: Dubbing via AI?

2022-01-25: Researchers build AI that builds AI

2022-01-25: The ClearView AI saga continues in Canada

2022-01-25: A right to repair?

2022-01-25: Hacktivists say they hacked Belarus Rail Systems to Stop Russian military buildup

2022-01-25: "Slightly" superhuman hiking?

2022-01-27: Identity theft thrives

2022-01-27: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs tracking mechanisms

2022-01-27: Britain and AI decision-making

2022-01-27: The rise of the robots in Singapore

2022-01-27: Our automated future?

2022-01-27: ID.ME changes its tune on techniques

2022-01-27: Privacy policies and larger considerations

2022-01-27: AI chatbots, admissions, and ethical risks

2022-01-31: When the algorithm is your boss

2022-02-01: The NSA Spies Shaping the Future

2022-02-02: AlphaCode

2022-02-02: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode

2022-02-07: Ghost dogs on the border

2022-02-08: The future of warfare? (From here

2022-02-08: Throwable robots?

2022-02-08: IRS backs off from biometric measures?

2022-02-10: Google Analytics GDPR Breach

2022-02-10: Zoom

2022-02-10: The trade in surveillance meets the world of arms

2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor

2022-02-15: Robots face many challenges

2022-02-16: Honorlock?

2022-02-22: Copyright Office answers "no" to AI authorship question

2022-02-22: Open Letter on AI

2022-02-24: EU Proposes Data Laws

2022-02-24: Missouri Governor's Office?

2022-02-24: Employment fraud?

2022-02-25: ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior

2022-03-01: Et tu, Apple?

2022-03-03: Warren and Warner write letter to the Treasury

2022-03-08: Echoes in the Uncanny Valley? (Uncanny Valley explanation)

2022-03-10: Money, fraud, and the Internet: who is responsible?

2022-03-10: Explain yourself?

2022-03-22: Dual use for AI

2022-03-22: Cell phones: knowing where you are...

2022-03-22: Privacy Police?

2022-03-22: Itami: Mass surveillance of the elderly

2022-03-22: My wife tracked me for journalism

2022-03-22: This article is spying on you...

2022-03-24: Tools for good... can these be used for bad?

2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)

2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site

2022-03-29: Clearview AI : Ukraine?

2022-03-29: A Brave New World of Nullities

2022-03-29: Whose fault: autonomous entity or human?

2022-03-29: OpenAI and human augmentation

2022-03-29: Hackers gain power of subpoena through fraudulent emergency data requests

2022-03-30: GPT3 grows more impressive

2022-03-30: How your shadow credit score could be used

2022-03-30: Direct interfaces

2022-03-31: Giordano and battlefields

2022-03-31: What other students in computer ethics are thinking

2022-04-05: Would you hire this AI?

2022-04-05: USB-C madness, technological duplicity

2022-04-05: In praise of desktop computing

2022-04-05: The Thin Edge of the Wedge?

2022-04-05: The Thin Edge, part II? (video)

2022-04-05: More robodogs on military bases

2022-04-07: Advanced Persistent Teens

2022-04-07: Why, Worldcoin?

2022-04-07: DALL-E-2 (NY Times version)

2022-04-07: DALL-E

2022-04-07: Robots in space

2022-04-07: Improving Man-Machine Interfaces

2022-04-07: Imaging AI autonomous entity cleared for use

2022-04-10: AI to make triage decisions on the battlefield?

2022-04-10: Speed Cam Anywhere!

2022-04-10: Double your money!

2022-04-10: ACM: Technology and its impact

2022-04-10: Dall-e-2 Friday

2022-04-13: Caltech graduate sentenced to five years federal prison for presentation on cryptocurrency — in North Korea

2022-05-10: AI outperforms humans

2022-05-12: AI goes to war in Ukraine

2022-05-12: The Weapon that Mistook a School Bus for an Ostrich

2022-05-12: AI succeeds at yet another Turing Test: this time in product reviews

2022-05-12: NY Times editorial on NFTs

2022-05-12: OpenSea

2022-05-12: OpenSea, II

2022-05-17: Congressional activity with regard to ClearviewAI

2022-05-17: DHS current client of ClearviewAI 2022-05-17: Digital Dragnet: ICE makes wide use of facial recognition

2022-05-17: When Corporate Interests and International Cyber Agreements Collide

2022-05-24: Imagen: DALL-E 2 now has competition

2022-05-24: AI tells a story, makes illustrations

2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined

2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined

2022-05-24: Deep Fakes become ever-more convincing

2022-05-26: Eutopian Superintelligence?

2022-05-26: AI at work, the best case

2022-05-26: AI at work, in reality

2022-05-31: Superintelligence: AI detects race from x-rays, an ability that humans do not have (Original article

2022-05-31: The professor is definitely not in

2022-05-31: Honorlock?

2022-05-31: The cryptic world of crypto

2022-05-31: What is the truth about Zadira and Peresvet?

2022-06-02: Nokia says 6G will be a revolution in 10 years time

2022-06-02: Discovering the secret language of DALLE-2

2022-06-07: International Law Enforcement and Intergovernmental Cooperation 2022

2022-06-07: Palermo government computing goes out

2022-06-07: Italy warns about Killnet

2022-06-07: Romania and Killnet

2022-06-09: Address to the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group (FELEG)

2022-06-09: Five Eyes Foresee Alarms

2022-06-09: Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group Meets in 2016

2022-06-09: Simulation or Gamefication?

2022-06-09: War Thunder Leaks

2022-06-09: Recent information on the Paige Thompson case

2022-06-09: Update: Capital One was fined in 2020 in regard to the Paige Thompson case

2022-06-09: Inside the mind of the Capital One hacker

2022-06-09: US v. Paige Thompson

2022-06-09: Software development in 2022: Work and ip-washing

2022-06-09: IP-washing aspects of AI generated code

2022-06-09: Meet Amazon's first fully autonomous mobile robot

2022-06-09: HIKvision and the SDN question

2022-06-28: European Parliament's "Framework of ethical aspects of AI, robotics, and related technologies

2022-06-28: European Parliament's proposed set of AI regulationss

2022-06-28: LaMDA?

2022-06-28: Models and Science

2022-06-30: Interview with an entity

2022-06-30: Hacker News debates the interview with an entity

2022-06-30: Searle's Chinese Room argument

2022-07-05: Can a corporation trademark a color?

2022-07-05: Experiments with DALL-E

2022-07-05: Mickey Mouse?

2022-07-07: Code replay attack on the myGovID Scheme

2022-07-07: Can Computers be Mathematicians?

2022-07-07: Copyright in action, 2022

2022-07-07: Wiretapping the world

2022-07-07: Windows11 and webcams

2022-07-12: Burma rolls out Chinese surveillance systems

2022-07-12: Democratization of AI?

2022-07-14: Gaming and toxicity?

2022-08-23: University of Maryland Professor Built Machine for China's Alibaba

2022-08-25: Honorlock in the courts

2022-08-30: Ethics in advertising?

2022-08-30: Civilian AI Is Already Being Misused by the Bad Guys

2022-09-01: Why do you want to work here?

2022-09-01: AI wins state fair art contest

2022-09-01: Why Dall-E will not steal my job

2022-09-01: Stories by AI (Hacker News discussion)

2022-09-01: Dall-E introduces "outpainting"

2022-09-01: Stable Diffusion Demo Image created by Stable Diffusion:

2022-09-01: ClearviewAI has a rival

2022-09-01: What does GPT3 know about me?

2022-09-01: BlenderBOT3

2022-09-06: ICO fines Clearview AI

2022-09-06: Clearview AI fined

2022-09-06: Meta fined $400 million for privacy violations related to children's personal data

2022-09-06: Deepfakes

2022-09-06: AI competition for Eric Carle's work?

2022-09-08: Stable Diffusion and ethics concerns

2022-09-08: China and Smart Cities

2022-09-13: The ethics of art and "creativity"?

2022-09-13: Academic publishers using AI

2022-09-13: How to stop Smart Cities from becoming surveillance cities

2022-09-13: LED Streetlights, surveillance, and "Smart Cities"

2022-09-20: 1984 2022: Totalitarian state erases the "past"

2022-09-20: Artist unhappy with AI image generation

2022-09-20: Hazlitt's observation becoming obsolete? ("Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.")

2022-09-20: State of surveillance: Instagram influencers surveilled

2022-09-20: AI assistant organizes your digital life

2022-09-20: New student in class?

2022-09-21: Are China's Smart Cities Really Surveillance Cities?

2022-09-22: San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors

2022-09-22: San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor 'significant events'

2022-09-22: ACLU/EFF position on SFPD use of private cameras for public surveillance

2022-09-22: U.S. military buys mass monitoring data

2022-09-22: Letter to Senator Wyden from DOJ Inspector General about mass monitoring data purchases

2022-09-22: The world is moving toward digital authoritarianism

2022-10-03: Sovereign RUnet: What does it mean?

2022-10-04: National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

2022-10-04: Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

2022-10-04: U.S. Government wants to limit China's Supercomputing and AI Firms

2022-10-04: Ulterior motives and recommender systems

2022-10-04: Digital people?

2022-10-06: Life Architect

2022-10-06: AI and matrix multiplication

2022-10-06: Imagen and video (Ars' cached video

2022-10-06: Harmful AI's liability status in Europe

2022-10-06: Why are there so many fake profiles on LinkedIn?

2022-10-06: DreamFusion: Stable Diffusion in 3-D
2022-10-06: Stable Diffusion in 3-D

2022-10-18: Cyborgs go small format
2022-10-18: ... and can come with an ethics statement, too!

2022-10-18: AI and chess championship

2022-10-18: IBM'S HR 3.0

2022-10-18: HCH defined

2022-10-18: Strong HCH

2022-10-18: Universality and consequentialism with HCH

2022-10-18: AI in the workplace

2022-10-20: Robots with shotguns discussed by Oakland city authorities

2022-10-20: Policy for deadly robotics?

2022-10-25: Gamification, Github experiments

2022-10-25: Mathematics, Computer Science, and the great controversies

2022-10-25: Navy wants swarms

2022-10-25: Doomscrolling 2022

2022-11-01: AI and artists

2022-11-03: Responsible AI has a burnout problem

2022-11-08: It didn't happen --- did it?

2022-11-08: Addicted to social media

2022-11-08: Making laws for autonomous weapons systems

2022-11-08: Questions to answer about humanity's role in autonomous weapons systems

2022-11-08: Trusting death to AI

2022-11-08: Ethicists sought for autonomous weapons systems

2022-11-08: Participate in discussions about autonomous weapons systems

2022-11-08: Turing-like machine in molecular computing

2022-11-08: Fashionable AI?

2022-11-15: FTX

2022-11-17: Malware and IDNs

2022-11-17: The woes of FTX

2022-11-17: Speech?

2022-11-17: Slaughterbots

2022-11-17: Lanius

2022-11-17: Lanius advertisement

2022-11-29: Yet another task humans need not do

2022-11-29: Another AI to NI analog?

2022-11-29: Even what you see can be a product of AI

2023-01-09: ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

2023-01-10: A conversation with an AI emulation of Winston Churchill at https://beta.character.ai

2023-01-12: About GPT-3's first academic publication submission

2023-01-12: GPT's first academic publication submission

2023-01-12: Frank dissimulation

2023-01-12: Responsible technology?

2023-01-17: AI and the classroom

2023-01-17: Stable Diffusion Litigation: Ethics Imposed by Legal Diktat?

2023-01-17: The ethics of your voice, someone else's words (more detail on what various portions of this mean can be found here.)

2023-01-17: ChatGPT on CNET Articles Written by (another?) AI

2023-01-17: CNET Responds

2023-01-19: Follow up academic status of AI: ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove

2023-01-19: Lengthy NY Times podcast/transcript on people discovering the power of ChatGPT: Did AI Just Get Too Smart?

2023-01-19: Eutopia or Dystopia? 'Imagine turning your Slack into a super-smart AI-powered chief of staff that can answer any questions you had about what’s going on.'

2023-01-19: Computer ethics in action? Shutterstock Leads the Way to Bring AI-generated Content to All

2023-01-19: AI and political lobbying

2023-01-19: Large Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists

2023-01-19: Atlas gets a grip

2023-01-24: The End of Programming

2023-01-24: What Do ChatGPT and AI-Based Automatic Program Generation mean for the Future of Software?

2023-01-24: AI's Jurassic Park Moment

2023-01-24: Is this some sort of solution? Human ID

2023-01-24: The AI Ethicist's Dirty Hands Problem

2023-01-24: Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?

2023-01-24: The future of StackOverflow? ChatGPT AI Generated Answers Temporarily Banned from StackOverflow

2023-01-24: Can AI Demonstrate Creativity?

2023-01-24: Ethical AI is not about AI

2023-01-24: Futility? Teaching in the Age of AI Means Getting Creative

2023-01-24: 'Ethics and Computer Science' as imagined by SlidesGPT.

2023-01-26: Lawyers defeat AI use in the courtroom

2023-01-31: AI generates art: who owns it?

2023-01-31: AI goes after bugs

2023-02-02: World Economic Forum Session on Brain Transparency

2023-02-02: AI now powers Teams

2023-02-02: Deep Face Live

2023-02-02: Pentesting, 2023

2023-02-07: My printer is extorting me

2023-02-07: Augmentation in the financial world

2023-02-07: Augmentation in the world of programming

2023-02-07: Google AI "principles", in light of Bard's announcement

2023-02-07: Bard

2023-02-07: Cognitive warfare extended to cyberspace

2023-02-07: Economic incentives promote change in labelling

2023-02-07: Voice changer beta

2023-02-07: Totalitarian states can participate in the AI revolution on their own terms

2023-02-07: High tech warfare becomes more affordable

2023-02-08: The Wall Street Journal: Uncertain Economy Spurs Growth in AI-Powered Office Automation

2023-02-14: Test of AI as fighter pilot

2023-02-14: Better without AI?

2023-02-14: MIT no AI license?

2023-02-14: Illusion Diffusion

2023-02-14: Future Perfect?

2023-02-14: The future of education: AI gamefies you

2023-02-14: New frontiers for human augmentation

2023-02-14: Forging ahead in protein design using AI

2023-02-14: Chase's view on Embedded responsible AI

2023-02-14: The future of education: AI gamefies you

2023-02-14: New frontiers for human augmentation

2023-02-14: Forging ahead in protein design using AI

2023-02-14: Chase's view on Embedded responsible AI

2023-02-16: Inside of ChatGPT?

2023-02-16: Generative AI, everywhere

2023-02-16: More text-to-image, courtesy of Google's Muse

2023-02-16: And, then, the furniture was moving...

2023-02-16: And, on cue, augmenting AI with computer-based tooling

2023-02-21: Regulation, laws, and the three laws of robotics?

2023-02-21: Robodogs controlled by soldiers' thoughts

2023-02-21: Taxi and other driving by remote operator

2023-02-21: Technological developments from the Ukranian-Russian conflict

2023-02-21: More on such technological progress

2023-02-21: The State Department on "Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy"

2023-02-21: Context of the State Department's Norms Document

2023-02-21: A ToM test, AI advances to intuitive capability of a human 9-year-old?

2023-02-21: Whispers of AI's modular future?

2023-02-21: Whisper.cpp code

2023-02-22: Scott Aaronson's take on GPT

2023-02-23: Build your own chatbot!

2023-02-23: Another chatbot construction technique

2023-02-23: The Copyright Office rescinds copyright granted on AI-generated art

2023-02-23: AI and the art of persuasion

2023-02-23: U.S. Navy takes delivery of ship that can operate autonomously for up to 30 days

2023-02-23: ChatGPT has already decreased my income security

2023-02-23: Magazine overwhelmed by submissions of AI-generated stories

2023-02-23: AI-generated 2023-02-28: Congress's considerations in banning TikTok

2023-02-28: More on TikTok

2023-02-28: Not just our students...

2023-02-28: Biological computers to keep up with silicon AI? Organoid intelligence (OI) enters the fray

2023-02-28: The Brave New World of Menu-making

2023-03-06: Vocaloids

2023-03-07: Treat ChatGPT as a student, lie to it, and observe results?

2023-03-07: Langchain

2023-03-07: Sumplete

2023-03-07: A short history of Sumplete?

2023-03-07: Human need not apply

2023-03-09: PALM-e

2023-03-09: The First Amendment and AI? Questions raised at the Supreme Court --- by a Justice of the Court

2023-03-09: Lawfare blogs on AI and the First Amendment

2023-03-21: Hands, also

2023-03-21: Mind probes advance

2023-03-21: Individualized instruction

2023-03-21: Still in the loop?

2023-03-21: AI, ethics, and industry

2023-03-21: Microsoft, ethics, and all that

2023-03-21: Microsoft, ethics, and all that

2023-03-21: GPT lists jobs from Hacker News

2023-03-23: Ask Sage, your friendly government advisor

2023-03-23: Richard Stallman, in Steve Jobs' voice

2023-03-23: A very strong Turing test

2023-03-23: Insurance decisions, made by AI

2023-03-23: Russian Weather, redux

2023-03-23: AI, on the law

2023-03-23: AI and plagiarism

2023-03-23: Jobs, of the future and the now

2023-03-23: More on jobs of the now and the future

2023-03-23: Workers Embrace ChatGPT Despite Their Bosses' Fears

2023-03-28: Clearview AI: More than a million searches performed for law enforcement

2023-03-28: Generative AI and humans in the workplace?

2023-03-28: GPT-4 and AGI, research from Microsoft

2023-03-28: OpenAI's mission statement

2023-03-28: Chronicle of Higher Education: Writing assignments in the age of GPT-4

2023-03-30: Pause Giant AI Experiments (Future of Life Institute)

2023-03-30: The Open Letter is not enough

2023-03-30: Pausing AI development is not enough: we need to shut it all

2023-03-30: Advances in robotic dog technology

2023-03-30: Interview with the author of "Battle for your Brain"

2023-03-30: The British governments blase approach

2023-03-30: Ars comprehensive collection of articles on pausing AI

2023-04-03: AI as CEO

2023-04-03: Trust transitivity?

2023-04-03: "Computer programming"/"learn to code" becomes "prompt engineering"?

2023-04-05: Our approach to AI safety

2023-04-05: If not an imitation game, how about a deviation one? (Also a term from game theory, amusingly enough)

2023-04-05: Intellectual property, in 2023?

2023-04-05: OpenAI and the future of education

2023-04-05: And, so what is privacy, anyway?

2023-04-05: Revolutionizing the economy?

2023-04-11: Auto-GPT

2023-04-11: Literally anything?

2023-04-11: The voice is no longer unique

2023-04-13: New York's Dystopian Developments

2023-04-13: GPS: On the run?

2023-04-13: New tools of the security trade

2023-04-13: Debugging in these days of AI

2023-04-13: Ars' version of debugging story

2023-04-13: Video in the age of AI

2023-04-13: We call it human progress, but we seem to actually be seeing far more AI progress (viz., AI Robotics

2023-04-18: LLMs and ethical dilemmas (Synopsi)

2023-04-18: Swatting as a service

2023-04-18: Augmentation, quite literally

2023-04-18: Security via robot

2023-04-18: German artist refuses photographic award

2023-04-20: A calculator for the mind (Leibniz's program completed?)

2023-04-20: Sovereignty and whose laws will rule the Internet?

2023-04-20: Public Interest Technologist