The European Commission is taking a different approach to protecting its citizens from unethical applications of artificial intelligence to that taken by United States legislators. Rather than legislating to enforce companies to audit their systems for problems such as bias and put in place steps to mitigate the problem, they are taking the moral high-ground. […]
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Can Recommendation Algorithms Promote Self-Harm or Even Suicide?
This story is as shocking as it gets for AI and recommenders. A father claims that while using social media, especially Instagram, his daughter was bombarded with inappropriate images and that “some of that content is shocking in that it encourages self-harm, it links self-harm to suicide.” The girl in question went on to commit suicide. […]