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

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

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

I've just published the first edition of my new Environment newsletter, in my online magazine, Perspicacity! 🥳 💥⚡ 🎉 😊

This edition is a one-off special dedicated to the global climate conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan

Enjoy!

#climate #climatechange #corruption

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/environment-update-1?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Graphic courtesy of Transparency International / Anti-Corruption Data Collective

Russian #disinformation, Israeli spyware, and freedom of information are among the topics of the latest Media & Disinformation update from the online magazine perspicacity - published today – featuring the best investigative journalism on the issue

https://richardnield.substack.com/p/media-and-disinformation-update-5

Welcome to Edition 5 of the Crime & Corruption update in my newsletter, ‘perspicacity’. Featuring cryptocurrency, drug dead drops, and Russia's use of organised crime as a tool of statecraft. Enjoy!

#Corruption #financialcrime #illicitfinance #sanctions #Crypto

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/crime-and-corruption-update-5?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true