Technē without safety guardrails?

* "The public showdown between the Department of Defense and Anthropic began earlier this week after they entered into discussions about the military’s use of the company’s Claude AI system. But the talks broke down as both sides appeared to be unable to come to agreement over safety guardrails."

"US defense officials have pushed for unfettered access to Claude’s capabilities that they say can help protect the country, while Anthropic has resisted allowing its product to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-anthropic-ai-federal-agencies

* The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’ >>
https://theconversation.com/the-pentagon-strongarmed-ai-firms-before-iran-strikes-in-dark-news-for-the-future-of-ethical-ai-277198

* Who decides when a machine kills? When private companies are enforcing ethical constraints and governments are not, something is very wrong >>
https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/who-decides-when-a-machine-kills/

#ethics #OpenAI #BigTech #surveillance #AutonomousWeapons #ADM #war #KillerRobots #LAWs #Google #LLMs #Claude #Anthropic #transparency #accountability #AutomatedDecisionMaking #algorithms #AlgorithmicTransparency

Just spent about an hour scrolling Mastodon. (Crazy Saturday night shenanigans). 😴

Clicked on a few things. Read an article. All good. 🤓

And I'm not angry at anything. ☺

Why aren't more media outlets here, I wonder? 🤔

#mastodon #algorithmictransparency #auspol

“How Algorithms Steer Your Feed Without Asking.”

Dr. Eslami digs into how algorithmic systems decide which creators, pages, and posts you see — even when you didn’t choose them.
We discuss transparency, attention capture, and how to stay aware of hidden influence.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/xTgzG04hyXI

#AlgorithmicTransparency #TechEthics #DigitalSovereignty #Podcast #theinternetiscrack

Many fights for #AlgorithmicTransparency focused on accessing code, but there’s more: Who builds these systems? Who are the providers? Are they independently evaluated? That’s why #AlgorithmRegisters are a key demand for accountability. So far, only France, Finland, the UK, Norway and Germany have official ones.

This week, #AutomatedSociety examines Europe's transparency laws; and how they fall short. Subscribe to our newsletter now: https://automatedsociety.algorithmwatch.org/#/en/

Ah, algorithmic transparency, what I told the European Parliament was the next step they should take after GDPR. Better six years late than never. Hey, maybe in another decade they’ll even consider implementing a General Data Minimisation Regulation (GDMR).

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

https://ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one-simple-regulation-could-end-surveillance-capitalism-in-the-eu/

#regulation #EU #GDPR #GDMR #algorithmicTransparency #dataMinimisation https://mamot.fr/@davduf/113845060326024724

"While the Executive Branch pushes agencies to leverage private AI expertise, our concern is that more and more information on how those AI models work will be cloaked in the nigh-impenetrable veil of government secrecy. Because AI operates by collecting and processing a tremendous amount of data, understanding what information it retains and how it arrives at conclusions will all become incredibly central to how the national security state thinks about issues. This means not only will the state likely make the argument that the AI’s training data may need to be classified, but they may also argue that companies need to, under penalty of law, keep the governing algorithms secret as well.

As the memo says, “AI has emerged as an era-defining technology and has demonstrated significant and growing relevance to national security. The United States must lead the world in the responsible application of AI to appropriate national security functions.” As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered about how much that ever-tightening relationship will impact much needed transparency and accountability for private AI and for-profit automated decision making systems."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/us-national-security-state-here-make-ai-even-less-transparent-and-accountable

#USA #CyberSecurity #Surveillance #AI #AlgorithmicTransparency