Age of AI

Send us a textAndrej 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 textMedlir sits down with Dr. Raluca Csernatoni and Dr.  Marijn Hoijtink to discuss the escalating ‘innovation race’ among corporate giants. They discuss AI’s contribution to the rise in power of the private tech sector vs. the state, as well as the ‘existential threat’ and ‘superintelligence’ narratives around foundational AI models and how these shape specific socio-technical imaginaries of the future.  They also dive into AI’s impact on geopolitical and military power, including Sino-American competition, and the rise of AI ‘nationalism’ or ‘sovereignty’.Links:https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/marijn-hoijtink_23930/https://carnegieeurope.eu/experts/1709https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2023.2224235https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17816858211059251https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373378810_Whose_insecurity_Gender_race_and_coloniality_in_European_security_policies_Introduction_to_the_Special_Issuehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600826.2023.2261466https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/the-comeback-of-industrial-policy-the-next-geopolitical-great-game-145627 Tags: #AI, #warfare, #algorithmicviolence, #EUAIAct, #AInationalism #innovationrace

Send us a textMedlir is joined by Baptiste Alloui-Cros, founder of the Strand Simulations Group and a wargame designer, to discuss how AI is likely to impact how we think, strategize, and prepare for war.Links:https://strandsimulationsgroup.com/https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/does-artificial-intelligence-change-the-nature-of-war/https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/what-is-the-utility-of-the-principles-of-war/#wargaming, #simulation, #AI, #warfare, #strategy

Send us a textThis week Medlir and our guest Rebekah Dowd, an academic, scholar, and author of The Birth of Digital Human Rights: Digitized Data Governance as a Human Rights Issue in the EU, explore how and why the EU became a leader in the realm of digital human rights.Links:https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82969-8https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligencehttps://www.globalgovernance.eu/publications/rolling-back-the-ai-act-is-a-mistake-heres-why #digital human rights, #GDPR, #EU AI Act, #EU, #Big Tech, #data protection

Send us a textIn this episode Chris talks to Arnaud Kurze of Montclair State University, currently a Digital Studies Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Arnaud has carried out groundbreaking research in digital humanities, memory studies, and transitional justice and offers his insights into AI and virtual memory spaces, accountability, Links:Kluge Fellowship: https://www.loc.gov/programs/john-w-kluge-center/scholars-in-residence/current-scholars-in-residence/Wilson Center: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/arnaud-kurzeProject AROS Lab: https://www.montclair.edu/project-aros-lab/Project AROS Projects: https://projectaros.net/sandbox/#projectsGuinea Fulbright: https://www.montclair.edu/chss/2023/10/30/professor-receives-fulbright-specialist-program-award/ 

Dr. Joachim Koops, Global Governance Institute and Leiden University, discusses the launch of the AI Global Governance program. They talk about the challenges of governance, the impact of technology on exposing global atrocities, the role of cooperation in global governance, and the challenges and opportunities in governing AI.

Send us a textYoung Diogenes (YD), Medlir and Chris discuss trends and developments in AI for 2023 (Democratization, Personalization, Twinning, GenAI, Multi-modal AI, AI ethics).  We also discuss advances in behavioral AI for communications security, weather forecasting, material science, and discussion of the recent chaos at OpenAI (based on reporting by Karen Hao, the final link below provides some really interesting additional details on the events inside OpenAI if you'd like to get caught up). Crypto Scammers Exploit Gaza Crisis, Deceiving Users in Donation ScamAbnormal Security CEO on Threat DetectionAI is outperforming our best weather forecasting tech, thanks to DeepMindDeepMind’s AI Unlocks Potential for New Material DiscoveriesThe chaos inside OpenAI(*In our discussion of Deepmind's machine learning method for weather, GraphCast, we mentioned '30-40 thousand parameters'. We intended '30-40 million'.)  

Send us a textMedlir sits down with Emma Morrison and Justin Lynch to discuss ways AI can help analysts in understanding significant events, attributing actions, and presenting usable information to decision-makers, while reflecting on how AI may adversely affect a country's ability to signal credibly, or understand its adversaries intentions accurately.Links: https://sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/programs-and-projects/kissinger-center-papers/deterrence-through-ai-enabled-detection-and-attributionhttps://www.nscai.gov/https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/14/israel-intelligence-hamas-gaza-border-technology-nato/https://wavellroom.com/2022/10/28/artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-deterrence/https://mwi.westpoint.edu/what-happened-to-iron-dome-a-lesson-on-the-limits-of-technology-at-war/

Send us a textMedlir discusses the impact of AI on development with Katya Klinova, Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy division of the Partnership on AI.  There she oversees (among other things) the AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative, asking how to make AI progress in the workforce more inclusive, as well as the potential impact of AI on the economic growth prospects of low- and middle-income countries.Links:Governing AI to Advance Shared Prosperity - published version on the website of Oxford University PressSummaryPreprintGuidelines for AI and Shared ProsperityAdditional Links:https://oecd.ai/en/community/katya-klinovahttps://oecd.ai/en/wonk/policies-ai-inclusive-growthhttps://partnershiponai.org/

Send us a textMedlir is joined for a wide-ranging conversation on the shifting landscape of AI governance by Dr. Justin Bullock, a Senior Researcher at Convergence Analysis, in the UK. Dr. Bullock brings a wealth of expertise in public administration, artificial intelligence (AI), organizational theory, and management.  He is the lead editor of Oxford University Press’ Handbook of AI Governance. Links: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41989https://justinbullock.org/academic-works/https://justinbullock.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Machine-Intelligence-Bureaucracy-and-Human-Control-final.pdfhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/ai-tech-designers-tool-communitieshttps://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/how-to-prevent-an-ai-catastrophehttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi8982