Age of AI

In July 2024, Japan’s Ministry of Defense unveiled its first basic policy document on the use of artificial intelligence and a comprehensive strategy to enhance Japan’s cyber defense capabilities. In this episode Dr. Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi of the University of Tokyo, joins us to talk about how AI fits into Japan’s military strategy. Links:https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/02/japan/sdf-cybersecurity/#:~:text=In%20the%20new%20policy%2C%20the,and%20in%20unmanned%20military%20assets.https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240705_05/(In Japanese) https://www.mod.go.jp/j/press/news/2024/07/02a.html #Japan #militaryAI #artificialintelligenceSend us a text

Medlir sits down with Dr. Paige Arthur, Director of Global Programming at Columbia Global, and co-author of AI for Peace (with Branka Panic), to discuss how recent AI innovations can contribute to conflict prevention and peace. They also explore the opportunities and challenges that technologies pose for human rights and curbing hate speech.Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-arthur-6269001b/https://www.aiforpeace.org/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003359982/ai-peace-branka-panic-paige-arthurhttps://www.usip.org/publications/2023/12/role-ai-peacebuildinghttps://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/emerging-military-and-security-technologies/responsible-innovation-ai-peace-and-securityhttps://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/20231208-messaggio-57giornatamondiale-pace2024.html #AI, #Human_Rights, #Peace, #Misinformation, #Hate_SpeechSend us a text

This week, our annual Diogenes Awards. We take a look at AI in television and film (and sometimes other musings and occasional 'arguments'). We discuss each host's top nominee(s) since 2023, and then narrow it to the consensus pick for all of you. Links below so you can join us in checking these out (in no particular order).Top TV Nominees:Mrs. Davis | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIOnrEujKl8 Black Mirror Season 6 Episode 1: Joan is Awful | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jY1ecibLYoUNKNOWN: Killer Robots | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsSzNOpr9cEA Murder at the End of the World | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4B5igIblb4Top Movie NomineesMegan | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRb4U99OU80Dune: Part Two | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way9Dexny3wMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avz06PDqDbMThe Creator | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex3C1-5Dhb8Heart of Stone | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ZlzKgNxNk Send us a text

Chris talks with Mihalis Kritikos of the European Commission on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Trustworthy Governance of AI. Mihalis sheds light on how he got started working on AI governance during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ethics of AI, the EU AI Act, and also AI surveillance in the workplace.Links:https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/ethical-ai-surveillance-in-the-workplace/?k=9781837537730https://epthinktank.eu/2020/04/22/ten-technologies-to-fight-covid-19/https://epthinktank.eu/2020/12/25/what-if-ai-could-improve-thermal-imaging-to-help-fight-coronavirus/https://epthinktank.eu/2020/12/23/what-if-artificial-intelligence-in-medical-imaging-could-accelerate-covid-19-treatment/https://epthinktank.eu/2020/12/22/what-if-ai-powered-passenger-locator-forms-could-help-stop-the-spread-of-covid-19/https://epthinktank.eu/2020/12/02/digital-human-rights-and-the-future-of-democracy-lessons-from-the-pandemic/Send us a text

Chris talks to Maya Sobchuk, GGI non-resident fellow and researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo about her work on AI and disinformation. In this episode Maya reflects on the history of Russian disinformation campaigns against Ukraine, disinformation in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, and how Ukraine has harnessed its AI know-how and innovation space to counter disinformation. Link:https://www.globalgovernance.eu/publications/how-ukraine-uses-ai-to-fight-russian-information-operationshttps://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/04/08/how-ukraine-is-using-ai-to-fight-russiaTags: #AI #Ukraine #Russia #disinformation #FIMI #deepfakesSend us a text

Medlir is joined by Dr. Hannes Mueller to discuss recent developments in conflict prevention. Specifically, we examine how artificial intelligence can help governments detect risk early, predict the likelihood of new conflicts, and prevent older ones from re-emerging.https://conflictforecast.org/https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/303316/1/Mueller%20and%20Rauh_2022.pdfhttps://bse.eu/research/working-papers/dynamic-early-warning-and-action-modelhttps://www.etcalpoly.org/the-pandemic-chronicles/humanism-v-dataism-an-ethical-quandary Send us a text

For our season opener, Young Diogenes has a chat with Chris and Medlir about some cool new things large language models can now do for us. Specifically, why some companies, like Google with Gemini, are choosing to concentrate on increasingly larger context windows (i.e., the size of the text, music, video prompt, etc., that the AI can parse).   And why being able to load an entire book, a movie, or your entire life into the prompt and then have a conversation about these things, might be useful.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_EliVUkuFA&t=23s&ab_channel=TwoMinutePapershttps://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-test-ai-for-a-living-and-googles-new-version-of-gemini-is-a-turning-point-for-the-industryhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/words-are-flowing-out-like-endless-rain-recapping-a-busy-week-of-llm-news/https://blog.google/technology/ai/long-context-window-ai-models/Send us a text

Medlir asks Lukas Andriukaitis, Board member of Lithuania-based Civic Resilience Initiative (CRI), what it means to work and live at the frontier of the new misinformation / disinformation space. They discuss the current atmosphere in the region and beyond, in terms of threat of misinformation/disinformation. They consider both the benefits and the drawbacks of AI-enabled technologies as billions across the world prepare to cast their votes in 2024.Links:https://cri.lt/https://cri.lt/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Chinese-Russian-Disinformation-Efforts-in-Lithuania-and-Taiwan.pdfhttps://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-ai-will-transform-the-2024-elections/https://www.techuk.org/resource/deepfakes-and-disinformation-what-impact-could-this-have-on-elections-in-2024.htmlTags: AI, emerging tech, election, misinformation, disinformation, Lithuania, Russia, International RelationsSend us a text

Luca Bertuzzi joins Medlir for a discussion on the EU AI Act passed by the European Parliament on March 13th. Among other things, they discuss the likely impact of the law on innovation and governance within the EU and abroad, as well as criticisms that the act fails to address concerns regarding human rights and civil liberties.Links:https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/03/13/lawmakers-approve-ai-act-with-overwhelming-majority?utm_content=buffer785c3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=bufferhttps://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-ai-act-fails-migrants-and-people-on-the-move/https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/opinion/eus-much-heralded-ai-act-agreed-by-eu-parliament-but-serious-human-rights-holes-in-law-remain/ #EUAIACT; #AIgovernance; #innovation; #human rights; #emergingtech; #EU;Send us a text

Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein share with Chris what they will be keeping an eye out for in the AI regulatory space in 2024. They also discuss their latest work on the politics and governance of big data and artificial intelligence and their newly published Handbook on the Governance Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In this discussion Andrej and Oskar explore the EU AI Act and challenges that datafication and algorithmic logics pose for governance, privacy, and human agency, and ponder the question: what does it mean to stay human in the age of AI?Show Notes:Andrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein (eds.), Research Handbook on Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar, 2023, Partially Open Access.Dirk Helbing, Thomas Beschorner, Bruno Frey, Andreas Diekmann, Thilo Hagendorff, Peter Seele, Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Jeroen van den Hoven, and Andrej Zwitter. “Triage 4.0: On Death Algorithms and Technological Selection. Is Today’s Data- Driven Medical System Still Compatible with the Constitution?” Journal of European CME Vol. 10, no. 1, 2021Oskar Gstrein and Andrej Zwitter, “Extraterritorial application of the GDPR: Promoting European values or power?”, Internet Policy Review Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2021Andrej Zwitter, Oskar Gstrein, Evan Yap, “Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the concept of the 'Self-Sovereign' Individual”, Frontiers in Blockchain, Vol. 3/26, 2020Links:European AI Regulation: Brussels Effect versus Human Dignity?Also available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4214358How to protect privacy in a datafied society? A presentation of multiple legal and conceptual approaches Send us a text