My latest article deals with the #humanrights implications of #AI, from image rights & intellectual property to freedoms from surveillance & discrimination and the right to give informed consent to undergo medical procedures.

Do we have a right to a human decision-maker? Can consent be ‘informed’ when AI algorithms are involved? How is our right to information affected by AI slop?

If we don't ask ourselves what rights we want to protect, we risk losing them.

https://richardnield.substack.com/p/balancing-ai-in-government-with-citizens

Published! 🤩💥 Ed9 of my Media & #Disinformation newsletter, featuring:

➡️ Grok 3 'study' claims humans not responsible for #globalwarming

➡️ Meta fails to prevent advertising of health scams to users

➡️ Russia's disinfo campaign against France

➡️ Trump’s muzzling of US press

https://tinyurl.com/3zehfzjp

Governments may suck, but people are kind. An antidote to the current global moment. My latest Substack post on perspicacity - On the Kindness of Strangers

https://tinyurl.com/rx4vfuh9

#Meta stops fact-checking, China launches #DeepSeek, China & Russia interfere in elections in Spain, Germany & Croatia, EU investigates X support for German far right.

Read more in latest edition of perspicacity @ https://tinyurl.com/y9ajdj24 😊

#disinformation #influenceoperations #electioninterference

Published! Edition #7 of perspicacity's Conflict & Human Rights Update, including:

➡️ analysis of destruction in Gaza

➡️ armed incursions into eastern Congo

➡️ government oppression in Georgia

➡️ gang violence in Haiti

➡️ a controversial World Bank project in Tanzania

➡️ the jailing of Aleksei Navalny’s lawyers

➡️ military violence against civilians in Myanmar

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/conflict-and-human-rights-update-c58?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

My latest international Crime & Corruption update! Featuring:

➡️ how Iran moves sanctioned oil
➡️ Chinese suppliers behind ads for deadly opioids targeting Europe
➡️ evolution of migrant smuggling on French coast
➡️ organised crime fuelling M23 crisis in eastern DRC
➡️ the fake Abramovich superyacht chartering scheme
➡️ Guernsey fund manager who stashed Assad loot
➡️ the influence of big money in UK politics
➡️ NSO Group found guilty of illegal spyware by US court

https://richardnield.substack.com/p/crime-and-corruption-update-6

Featuring in Edition 6 of my Media & Disinformation newsletter:

➡️ Albania shuts down TikTok for a year
➡️ EU sanctions pro-Russian #disinformation outlets
➡️ Apple buckles to Russian censors
➡️ Serbia uses spyware to target journalists and activists
➡️ Australia passes legislation to ban under-16s from using social media
➡️ Romania annuls presidential election following apparent state-backed cyberattacks
➡️ Spain to require social media influencers to introduce corrections

https://tinyurl.com/2s4ab9cv

People, as we well know, make mistakes. But even with that knowledge, it seems we underestimate the extent to which we err.

My latest post on perspicacity, about why eyewitnesses might not be as reliable as we imagine.

https://richardnield.substack.com/p/to-err-a-lot-is-human

Deep (and easy) fakes, the liar's dividend, and the fatal consequences of disinformation -

The first in a series from the brilliant #disinformation conference in Riga organised by EU DisinfoLab

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/ai-and-the-liars-dividend?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

@DisinfoEU

#AI #deepfake #Disinfo2024

Welcome to Edition 2 of my Environment newsletter! Featuring:

➡ the $1 trillion raised for fossil fuel development by banks committed to ‘net zero’

➡ the shortcomings in human rights protections in the electric vehicle industry

➡ illegal logging in Europe and South America

➡ the alarming spills from the fleet of ageing oil tankers Russia is using to evade sanctions

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/environment-update-2?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#environment #netzero #humanrights #oilspills #illegallogging #sanctions