Notices by Frederik Borgesius (frederik_borgesius@akademienl.social)

NL. ‘Delft University of Technology has received funding from fossil industry companies in recent years, including to conduct research on oil and gas extraction.’ Good reporting by Emma van Bergeijk at Nu.nl, based on freedom of information requests https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303104/tu-delft-kreeg-afgelopen-jaren-geld-van-industrie-voor-onderzoek-naar-olie-en-gas.html #climate #news #environment #academia #netherlands

Looking forward to reading this.

‘The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now’, Hilke Schellmann

#ai #tech #books #discrimination #law #economics

AI Act. The requirement for a fundamental rights impact assessment (FRIA) applies, in short, to AI deployers in the public sector and private parties if they provide public services. And to AI operators that use high-risk systems for credit scoring or life or health insurance underwriting. If I understand it correctly, most of the private sector is thus excluded from the FRIA requirement. Art. 29a. #aiact #ai #law #tech #eu #politics

Reading the AI Act. Complicated stuff. #aiact #law #ai #tech #eu #politics

AI Act. ‘Polygraphs’ (lie detectors) are not banned, but are merely categorized as ‘high risk’. Annex III art. 6 and 7 (law enforcement and immigration).

A ban would have made sense to me. It’s not really my expertise, but I’ve seen meta review papers that conclude that such tech is snake oil.

Erhhh, SoundCloud, 776 partners?

No, thank you.

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‘ChatGPT to summarize Politico and Business Insider articles in ‘first of its kind’ deal. OpenAI to pay German media group Axel Springer to use its material, including stories behind paywalls’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/13/openai-axel-springer-chatgpt-story-writing-business-insider-politico #tech #ai #chatgpt #journalism

Apparently the fine will be higher. ‘Meta on Monday was fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) and ordered to stop transferring data collected from Facebook users in Europe to the United States, in a major ruling against the social media company for violating European Union data protection rules.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/business/meta-facebook-eu-privacy-fine.html #law #tech #politics #eu #gdpr #dataprotection #privacy