new Of course, digital protection measures such as antivirus software, secure gateways, firewalls, and virtual private networks (VPNs) remain crucial. And, incorporating advanced digital strategies such as machine learning to monitor for behavioural anomalies, provides an added layer of security. Leadership teams should also assess whether similar approaches have been applied to address any physical vulnerabilities. For example, a combination of manned entry points, locked facilities, cameras, and security alarms offers robust protection. It’s unlikely that a physical intrusion will occur simply to steal a laptop. Instead, these malicious actors commonly look for a way to access data or install malware inside the organisation’s physical perimeter where some protections may be lacking. — IT Brief New Zealand, 8h ago

new Change is never easy, particularly large organisational shifts like the ones that can be expected through the adoption of generative AI. The nature of some roles may change, along with established methods that many employees will have become accustomed to over the years. However, with the proper learning and development initiatives in place, such as group coaching, the collaborative mindset can be continued long term and steps can be taken to break down organisational silos. — The European Business Review, 15h ago

new Recently, automated stores that use only kiosks without staff have been increasing without checking the accessibility level of the information-alienated class, and it is expected that the difficulties of the information-alienated class will increase further. In addition, as the number of consumers in their 20 and 30s who avoid face-to-face interactions and prefer kiosks increases, non-face-to-face marketing in offline stores is becoming a trend spreading to various industries. To meet this need, CN.AI explained that it developed the AI Human with the idea that introducing a friendly kiosk that can be conveniently utilized even by older people would improve customer satisfaction across all ages. — Journal of Cyber Policy, 19h ago

new For all of the bravado of AI, before we become too dazzled or dismayed (depending on which side of this issue you reside), at AI’s potential impact on projects, it is worthwhile to sit back with a skeptical bird’s eye view. After all, as we humans evolved throughout the information age of the mid to late twentieth century, AI can just be considered the latest development in a long series of technological advances driven by the engine of human information input. Even if every one of the improvements stated above are tangible, how well does it translate to the ultimate outcome? Organizations around the globe have been trying to digitalize and computerize, some as early as the 1960s and 1970s. Digitization and computerization promised a revolution in productivity through automation, streamlining, and making humans redundant. But the road to a more significant productivity boost has been arduous at best. One of the primary reasons is captured in the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, an Israeli physicist turned business management guru. In his landmark book The Goal, which sold over 6 million copies, he explains the importance of focusing on the right constraints to improve the overall system. For projects, the constraints are generally not within the technology and tools, but within humans. — Healthcare Business Today, 1d ago

new AI systems are often presumed to be completely impartial and neutral. Artificial intelligence acquires biases that exist in the data it is trained on. Developers must actively strive to reduce biases, however achieving total impartiality remains a difficult task. — techgig.com, 1d ago

new Continually remind employees to apply their judgment over the long term. Vahe Andonians, chief technology officer and chief product officer of Cognaize, said that we need humans to apply their judgment to AI outputs even when we no longer need to be checking its facts. “I'm going to steal from Nietzsche,” he said, “It should be humans because we are the only ones that can suffer. AI is not going to suffer…so the judgment layer should be us.” George Lee, co-head of applied innovation at Goldman Sachs, added that one thing his team has been focused on is how to encourage employees to keep a sharp eye, even when the AI system is performing well: “After the 10th experience of it looking just great, are you going to pay attention?” (A recent study on BCG consultants, covered by Charter, illustrated the danger of employees ‘switching off their brains’ when working with impressive AI systems.)... — Charter, 1d ago

new Incorporating bioethics principles into medical AI algorithms is undoubtedly a crucial aspect of creating trustworthy technology that serves to advance society. While the paper highlights multiple critical topics that should be considered and offers robust solutions, gaps and questions remain. More research needs to be done regarding when these AI tools are considered to be conscious of their own actions and, by extension when liability is placed on humans or the machines. Additionally, while the authors’ proposed solution of instituting liability fees and other systems between public and private parties is an interesting point to consider, it may be difficult to establish in countries such as the United States, where the healthcare system is incredibly disjointed. Additionally, in places with many competing private healthcare companies, it should be considered that these parties do not necessarily have patients’ best interests at heart. Instead, they tend to prioritize profits over patient well-being—thus adding another obstacle to ensuring ethical medical AI is instituted. — Montreal AI Ethics Institute, 1d ago

new Since the beginning of time, humans have been exploring the best ways to progress and make life easier for themselves. Nevertheless, fear of technology has always been a part of the human condition. This was evident when electricity was discovered and how American society was reluctant to make it widely available. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be beneficial when used properly, but as I’ve always believed that too much of anything is bad, one must find a balance in how much they rely on AI technology. Thoughtful reasoning is what gave rise to AI, so, I will advise finding that balance, but my position doesn’t change. We’ve progressed, and the competition is real. If you don’t use AI, you won’t be able to compete with those who do, and you’ll become outdated. — The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News, 1d ago

new Policymakers are increasingly considering risk-based assessments of AI systems, such as the EU AI Act. We believe that in this context, AI systems with the potential for deception should be classified at least as “high-risk.” This classification would naturally lead to a set of regulatory requirements, including risk assessment and mitigation, comprehensive documentation, and record-keeping of harmful incidents. Second, we suggest passing ‘bot-or-not’ laws similar to the one in California. These laws require AI-generated content to be accompanied by a clear notice informing users that the content was generated by an AI. This would give people context about the content they are viewing and mitigate the risk of AI deception. — Montreal AI Ethics Institute, 1d ago

new Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one area where AI is being used as a screening tool. According to Dr Gopal Pillai, professor and head of department of ophthalmology at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi, approximately one third of people with diabetes will have DR in India, and about 10-12 per cent of those will have vision-threatening DR, indicating that the development of DR has seriously affected the patient’s vision and failure to treat it in a timely manner will result in irreversible vision loss. One thing that was hampering early detection of DR was that it is asymptomatic, until, that is, the person completely loses his vision. “One might be driving, reading, watching TV and doing their activities without even knowing that a time bomb is ticking inside the eye. And because the patient would often come in late, there was no way of early diagnosis,”says Pillai, who is leading a government-sponsored clinical trial network. — theweek.in, 1d ago

new Now there's a lot between here and there. How do we know that's true? And I want to talk about that later. But that's something we can imagine, delegating to a machine as opposed to delegating to a human. There'll be upsides, there'll be downsides. I think this is also something that will change with time. We might not be comfortable with today, in five years we might be. Do we want an AI to act as a court jury? We use human jurors for historical reasons, nothing else worked. Human jurors are fallible, they're influenceable, they have prejudices, they're biased, all sorts of problems with them, but all sorts of good things about them. AIs in the place of jurors, they're going to have biases and problems and all sorts of things. But will they do a better job today, tomorrow, in five years? I don't know. But my guess is that over the next several decades there will be tasks that today we say, "No, a human must perform them." Now, in the future you might say we're okay with an AI doing it. I think you ask an important question of, "How do we know what its values are? How do we figure it out?" Well, in some way it's no different than people. How do I know your values? I could ask you, you might be lying. I could observe you in practice. You might be deceiving me. But over the course of time, if we are friends, I will get to learn your values. And I think the same is going to be true for an AI. We can ask it. Maybe it'll tell us the truth. Hopefully it will. We could watch it in practice. And over the course of time working with an AI, we might come to trust it more because we have watched it implementing its values and practice. — harvard.edu, 2d ago

new Spray adds agencies that want to innovate with AI must also be willing to accept risk and failure, and be diligent when it comes to compliance. “The reality is that adopting new technology is not going to be a smooth road,” she says. “We have to consider things from lots of different perspectives, from legal to regulatory to ethics. How do you create those governance processes – do you have them already or do you need to do that now?”... — Cision, 2d ago

new The contract, which is being voted on and needs a majority of “yes” votes to come into force, was considered a victory by many and received with suspicion by others. In the initial vote, 14% of the members of the union's national board voted “no”, and that is what Portuguese actress Kika Magalhães intends to do as well. “The reason is that they don't protect actors in relation to digital replicas”, she told Lusa the actress, based in Los Angeles since 2016. “They say yes, that there is protection, but then we look between the lines and there is nothing.” Kika Magalhães, whose latest film, “The Girl in the Backseat”, has just been released reaching Amazon Prime Video and the streaming platform Tubi, points to how digital replicas can be disastrous. “An actor goes for a casting and the producers ask if he will accept their digital replica. If the actor says no, they may not give him the role,” she explains. Top-notch actors will be able to negotiate and say no without losing the role. “But small actors like us don't bring as much money to the union and they don't protect us as much”, considered Kika Magalhães. The actress doubts the solution put forward by one of the clauses, according to which if a studio uses digital replicas of an actor this You will be paid corresponding to the hours you would be filming. “This is very relative, because a scene can take a month to film. They can say it took a day to make.” Actress Justine Bateman also criticized loopholes that allow studios to use digital replicas without actors' consent when certain conditions are met. The results of the votes will be known on December 5th. If there are 50%+1 “yes” votes, this contract will come into force for the next three years. “I have heard many actors saying that they will vote no”, said Kika Magalhães. Her husband, actor Chris Marrone, said that “if the majority fully understands what they are signing, then they vote no.” Marrone considered that the SAG contract “doesn’t seem like a big victory after all” and that there should be specific language to define the actors as human beings. This is something that actress Katja Herbers also defends, in opposition to “synthetic actors”. However, the expectation is that the “yes” will win, because the industry has been at a standstill for too long and there is widespread fatigue. This is what Mário anticipates Carvalhal, who belongs to the Animation Guild, stressing that the stoppage was long and the “no” appears to be a minority. “There is a possibility that some people will vote no, but I believe that these new measures will pass and be approved,” he told Lusa. “I think it is a minority that is very right in what they are demanding, but it was practically a whole year of work stopped in this city and I think everyone is ready to move forward”. Mário Carvalhal considers that the big risk of AI will be the reduction in quality and a change in the way the environment works. “Actors have more to claim, especially when it comes to those who do voices. There have already been cases where AI can do the job,” he said. “It's an inferior job, but for many companies it's enough and doesn't cost them anything.” Carvalhal considers that actors “must maintain their rights to image, voice and everything else, their likeness.” The Portuguese also stressed that, although the strikes did not achieve all their objectives, they allowed “important steps in the right direction” to be taken and this is an aspect of which the strikers are proud. “As much as possible, I think the workers won this fight”, he considered. For screenwriter Filipe Coutinho, member of the Portuguese Cinema Academy, the unions were justified in their fight, which took longer than expected. “I'm quite satisfied for the way both the WGA and SAG acted over these six months”, he told Lusa. “It’s an unbelievable time to have an entire industry at a standstill,” he stressed. “California is one of the largest economies in the world and it is incomprehensible that it took so long for the studios to offer a fair contract to writers and actors.” Filipe Coutinho also said that, even with the agreements, “everything is a little upside down. the air”, with studios and production companies “trying to understand what the next phase will be”. The Portuguese mentioned changes in the business model, with 'blockbusters' expected to fail at the box office, cancellation of films and the dilemma of 'streaming '.“No one really knows what to invest in and under what conditions to invest, and now contracts also change the approach to content production.” Afonso Salcedo, lighting artist, who worked on the new Disney film “Wish – The Power of Desires”, considers that the strikes were difficult but important, at a time when it is not yet clear to what extent AI will affect the industry. “The agreements will last three years so I think it is a good step to see what it is like that the technologies will work in the coming years”, he indicated, noting that the animation segment will have to renegotiate the contract in 2024. “It will be interesting to see what will happen, if we are going to negotiate protections against Artificial Intelligence”, stated Afonso Salcedo. “Maybe, next year, we will get into these fights with the studios again.” The vote on the agreement reached between the SAG-Aftra union and the studios runs until December 5th. The results will be tabulated and published on the same day. — adherents, 2d ago

new If we could observe and modify everything that’s going on in a human brain, we’d be able to use optimization algorithms to calculate the precise modifications to the synaptic weights which would cause a desired change in behavior. Since we can’t do this, we are forced to resort to crude and error-prone tools for shaping young humans into kind and productive adults. We provide role models for children to imitate, along with rewards and punishments that are tailored to their innate, evolved drives. In essence, we are poking and prodding at the human brain’s learning algorithms from the outside, instead of directly engineering those learning algorithms. — alignmentforum.org, 2d ago

new Advancements in biometrics, smartphones, and document recognition have been game-changers for balancing security and convenience. More and more, banks will be able to build filters that make it harder for bad actors while easier for good ones. It's important to have the latest and best technology possible making sure that hurdles aren't the same height for good actors and bad actors. For instance, bots armed with AI can breeze through knowledge questions and form fills. However, biometric tech makes it simple for real people to snap ID photos but extremely tough for bots. With the right innovations, complexity can be removed for consumers while scrutinizing bad actors more effectively. The ideal system has just enough friction to deter fraud without frustrating users. By leveraging cutting-edge solutions, banks can eliminate hassles while enhancing security. — Financial IT, 2d ago

new California’s report also usefully lays out the potential risks associated with using these new tools, making clear that while there are some new potential harms, in many cases many of the risks are common to the use of any technology. Governments need to be conscious of the fact that tools that enable the easy generation of high-quality content could be misused to dupe consumers and residents.Perhaps because 35 of the 50 leading AI businesses are in California, as the state's report points out at the outset, it is silent on the risks to governments and those they serve of relying excessively on technologies developed and governed by unaccountable companies, especially when those technologies are procured by public servants without a deep knowledge of the tech. — GovTech, 2d ago

new The year 2024 is anticipated to witness a surge in the occurrence of Generative AI-based cybersecurity attacks, primarily deepfake attacks facilitated by Generative AI. This poses a significant cybersecurity threat, as Generative AI can also be employed for phishing and social engineering attacks. Besides, attackers can exploit Generative AI techniques to develop new variants of malware that can evade detection by traditional security measures. It is essential to note that Generative AI models are susceptible to data poisoning and adversarial attacks, making them vulnerable to exploitation. Overall, this implies that 2024 will be marked by an increased risk of Generative AI-based cyber threats, which can cause severe harm to businesses and industries. — Thinkers360 | World’s First Open Platform For Thought Leaders, 2d ago

new ...4. Peer-checked: While all the the above virtue could be performed by a single individual, chances of misinterpretation of incoming external intel, lower quality output or simply genuine mistakes is drastically reduced if 4 eyes principle are applied (ideally with another TI analyst), or in smaller team in collaboration with a DE sitting at the interface with TI, helping to review and document new threats with the TI analyst. After all, the cyber world is human-driven (sorry, AI…)... — Security Boulevard, 2d ago

new The AI floodgates opened in 2023, but the next year may bring a slowdown. AI development is likely to meet technical limitations and encounter infrastructural hurdles such as chip manufacturing and server capacity. Simultaneously, AI regulation is likely to be on the way.This slowdown should give space for norms in human behavior to form, both in terms of etiquette, as in when and where using ChatGPT is socially acceptable, and effectiveness, like when and where ChatGPT is most useful.ChatGPT and other generative AI systems will settle into people’s workflows, allowing workers to accomplish some tasks faster and with fewer errors. In the same way that people learned “to google” for information, humans will need to learn new practices for working with generative AI tools.But the outlook for 2024 isn’t completely rosy. It is shaping up to be a historic year for elections around the world, and AI-generated content will almost certainly be used to influence public opinion and stoke division. Meta may have banned the use of generative AI in political advertising, but this isn’t likely to stop ChatGPT and similar tools from being used to create and spread false or misleading content.Political misinformation spread across social media in 2016 as well as in 2020, and it is virtually certain that generative AI will be used to continue those efforts in 2024. Even outside social media, conversations with ChatGPT and similar products can be sources of misinformation on their own.As a result, another lesson that everyone – users of ChatGPT or not – will have to learn in the blockbuster technology’s second year is to be vigilant when it comes to digital media of all kinds.Tim Gorichanaz, Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Science, Drexel UniversityThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. — GovTech, 2d ago

new Companies that do not adhere to the new laws may be fined and their products may be withdrawn from circulation in the EU. The Cyber Resilience Act is part of the EU’s wider plan to crack down on what it sees as threats to safety and human rights presented by Big Tech. Leo Moore, partner and head of technology at law firm William Fry recently told SiliconRepublic.com how the bloc is enforcing various regulations to ensure tech companies are being held responsible for things such as the use of personal data, AI and cybersecurity. — Silicon Republic, 2d ago