5 Ways to Strengthen the AI Acquisition Process
In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems, we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed. In this article, we give further details about the draft standard and the…
New Techniques Emerge to Stop Audio Deepfakes A recent FTC challenge crowned three ways to thwart nefarious voice clones
Voice cloning—in which AI is used to create fake yet realistic-sounding speech—has its benefits, such as generating synthetic voices for people with speech impairments. But the technology also has plenty of malicious uses: Scammers can use AI to clone voices to impersonate someone and swindle…
Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems The AI Institute’s new Zurich head will focus on reliable, mobile robots
Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter also runs the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich, arguably best known as the…
DO WE DARE USE GENERATIVE AI FOR MENTAL HEALTH?
THE MENTAL-HEALTH APP WOEBOT launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and new: a way for people to get on-demand mental-health support…
Why AI alignment could be hard with modern deep learning
Holden previously mentioned the idea that advanced AI systems (e.g. PASTA) may develop dangerous goals that cause them to deceive or disempower humans. This might sound like a pretty out-there concern. Why would we program AI that wants to harm us? But I think it could…
Five security risks from Generative AI
We’re all still coming to grips with the exciting possibilities of Generative AI (GenAI) as a technology that can create realistic and novel content, such as images, text, audio, and video. Its use cases will span the enterprise and can…