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Customer Service Robot Scares Away Customers Store Hires Robot To Help Out Customers, Robot Gets Fired For Scaring Customers Away Every few months there's a story warning us that robots will take over our jobs within five, 10, or 20 years. You don't get a lot of stories about robots taking over jobs right here and now. So what would happen if robots were hired now? Are they up to the task?

Enter Fabio, looking hopeful and ready to take the first step in his career. Fabio is a robot, developed b
Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party China: Chatbots Disciplined After Unpatriotic Messages Two chatbots found themselves in hot water Wednesday after they apparently went rogue on QQ, a Chinese messaging app with more than 800 million users.

The Financial Times reports that Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent pulled BabyQ and XiaoBing — bots developed by Beijing-based Turing Robot and Microsoft, respectively — from its app after they gave counter-revolutionary answers when questioned on
Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain Robot Security Guard 'Drowns Itself' In Water Fountain A security guard robot has met a watery end in a shopping centre water fountain, prompting a social media storm of doomsday predictions about suicidal robots and Marvin-related humour.

The Knightscope security robot was patrolling the Georgetown Waterfront shopping complex in Washington D.C. on Monday when it apparently launched itself to its death.

"Our D.C. office building got a security robot.
Google Waymo Vehicle and Bus Allegedly Collide in California Google's self-driving car in broadside collision after other car jumps red light Autonomous Lexus SUV could not prevent accident that caved in front and rear passenger-side doors, setting off airbags and forcing it to be towed away

One of Google’s self-driving cars was involved in one of the worst autonomous vehicle accident yet, when a driver ran a red light and collided with the passenger side door of the modified Lexus SUV.

The dr
Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest Facebook apologizes after wrong translation sees Palestinian man arrested Hacker news discussion of Facebook's apology. Israel Arrests Palestinian Because Facebook Translated 'Good Morning' to 'Attack Them' The Israel Police mistakenly arrested a Palestinian worker last week because they relied on automatic translation software to translate a post he wrote on his Facebook page. The Palestinian was arrested after writing “go
Kidney Testing Method Allegedly Underestimated Risk of Black Patients Examining the Potential Impact of Race Multiplier Utilization in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Calculation on African-American Care Outcomes **BACKGROUND:** Advancing health equity entails reducing disparities in care. African-American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have poorer outcomes, including dialysis access placement and transplantation. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations, which assi
"Jewish Baby Strollers" Provided Anti-Semitic Google Images, Allegedly Resulting from Hate Speech Campaign
Apple Card's Credit Assessment Algorithm Allegedly Discriminated against Women How the law got it wrong with Apple Card Advocates of algorithmic justice have begun to see their proverbial “days in court” with legal investigations of enterprises like [UHG](https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-regulator-probes-unitedhealth-algorithm-for-racial-bias-11572087601) and [Apple Card](https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/23/new-yorks-department-of-financial-services-says-apple-card-program-didnt-violate-fair-
Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants Rights group files federal complaint against AI-hiring firm HireVue, citing ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices A prominent rights group is urging the Federal Trade Commission to take on the recruiting-technology company [HireVue](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scanning-algorithm-increasingly-decides-whether-you-deserve-job/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), arguing that the firm has turned to unfair and deceptiv
Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights Last week, we reported on the rollout of Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta to a select few Tesla owners.

Though self-driving technology has undeniably come a long way in the last few years, we're never far from a reminder that the technology also still has a long way to go.

A case in point is a Reddit user's recently uploaded video showing a faulty interaction be
Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm In [October](https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/transparency-image-cropping.html) 2020, we heard feedback from people on Twitter that our [image cropping algorithm](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2018/Smart-Auto-Cropping-of-Images.html) didn’t serve all people equitably. As part of our [commitment](https://blog.twitter.com/en
Korean Chatbot Luda Reportedly Made Offensive Remarks Towards Minority Groups in South Korea Chatbot shut down after saying it 'hates lesbians' and using racist slurs A South Korean Facebook chatbot has been shut down after spewing hate speech about Black, lesbian, disabled, and trans people.

Lee Luda, a conversational bot that mimics the personality of a 20-year-old female college student, told one user that it “really hates” lesbians and considers them “disgusting,” Yonhap News Agency [report
Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries Algorithms Are Making Decisions About Health Care, Which May Only Worsen Medical Racism Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making systems — algorithms that analyze massive amounts of data and make predictions about the future — are increasingly affecting Americans’ daily lives. People are compelled to include [buzzwords](https://www.zipjob.com/blog/get-your-resume-past-applicant-tr
Amazon's Rekognition Falsely Matched Members of Congress to Mugshots Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots Amazon’s face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern. In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool, called “Rekognition,” the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.
TikTok's "Suggested Accounts" Algorithm Allegedly Reinforced Racial Bias through Feedback Loops TikTok's Algorithm Shows Unintentional Racial Bias, Researcher Finds A little experiment by an artificial intelligence researcher is raising questions about how TikTok's recommendation algorithm suggests new creators to users.

Specifically, the question is whether that algorithm is sorting suggestions based on the race of the creator — something TikTok denies it's doing intentionally. But it's anothe
OpenAI's GPT-3 Associated Muslims with Violence GPT-3 is the world’s most powerful bigotry generator. What should we do about it? GPT-3 is, arguably, the world’s most advanced text generator. It costs billions of dollars to develop, has a massive carbon footprint, and was trained by some of the world’s leading AI experts using one of the largest datasets ever curated. And, in spite of all that, it’s also inherently bigoted.

A recent [study](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05783v1.pdf) conducted by r
Facebook’s "Tag Suggestions" Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent Facebook to pay $550 million to settle privacy lawsuit over facial recognition tech Facebook says it has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding its use of facial recognition technology. The news, reported first this evening by The New York Times, was part of a disclosure the company made as part of its fourth quarter earnings report today.

The case against Facebook has been going on
Facebook's Automated Tools Failed to Adequately Remove Hate Speech, Violence, and Incitement Facebook AI moderator confused videos of mass shootings and car washes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded an optimistic note three years ago when he wrote about the progress his company was making in automated moderation tools powered by artificial intelligence. “Through the end of 2019, we expect to have trained our systems to proactively detect the vast majority of problematic content,” he wrote in N
TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders TikTok Anorexia Videos Misspell Hashtags to Beat the 'Pro-Ana' Ban TikTok said it banned six accounts reported to it for posting content promoting eating habits that are likely to lead to health problems in its latest effort to crackdown on harmful content.

The app is rife with dangerous material including 'pro-ana' or pro-anorexia and 'pro-mia' or pro-bulimia content which has plagued other s
Online Trolls Allegedly Abused TikTok’s Automated Content Reporting System to Discriminate against Marginalized Creators TikTok Deleted My Account Because I’m a Latina Trans Woman My name is Rosalynne (Rose) Montoya, I am a Latina, bisexual, transgender woman. I am a social media content creator and before Monday December 14th, 2020, I had grown my audience to 300K+ followers on my TikTok account. (@RosalynneMontoya).

One of my videos about injecting my estrogen was reported. Shortly after I po
Facebook’s and Twitter's Automated Content Moderation Reportedly Failed to Effectively Enforce Violation Rules for Small Language Groups Facebook, Twitter Struggling in Fight against Balkan Content Violations According to the responses to BIRN’s questionnaire, some 57 per cent of those who reported hate speech said they were notified that the reported post/account violated the rules.

On the other hand, some 28 per cent said they had received notification that the content they reported did not v
YouTube's AI Mistakenly Banned Chess Channel over Chess Language Misinterpretation YouTube AI blocks chess channel after mistaking 'black v white' discussion as racism The world’s most popular YouTube chess channel was blocked after artificial algorithms set up to detect racist content and hate speech mistook discussion about black and white chess pieces as racism, [reports](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ai-chess-racism-youtube-agadmator-b1804160.html) Independent UK.
Tesla's Autopilot Misidentified the Moon as Yellow Stop Light Video showing moon interpreted as yellow stop light Hey @elonmusk you might want to have your team look into the moon tricking the autopilot system.  The car thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light and wanted to keep slowing down. 🤦🏼 @Teslarati @teslaownersSV @TeslaJoy We tried Tesla's 'full self-driving.' Here's what happened Washington, DC (CNN)When a dozen small children crossed in front of our Tesla with "full self-driving," I h
Web Accessibility Vendors Allegedly Falsely Claimed to Provide Compliance Using AI Website Accessibility Overlay False Claims Truth in advertising does not exist for overlay vendors False claims at the expense of customers and persons with disabilities.

Introduction

False advertising harms consumers and is damaging to a fair marketplace. It is also illegal.

The Federal Trade Commission Act is the primary statute of the [Federal Trade] Commission. Under this Act … the Commission is empowered,
Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle The first app to get approved as birth-control is under fire after dozens of women got pregnant — but the founder isn't surprised The birth-control app Natural Cycles has come [under fire in Sweden](https://uk.businessinsider.com/natural-cycles-under-investigation-unwanted-pregnancies-2018-1) after 37 women reported getting pregnant while using it.

The app, designed by physicist couple Elina Berglund an
California Regulator Suspended Pony.ai's Driverless Testing Permit Following a Non-Fatal Collision Startup Pony.ai agrees to automated driving software recall WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - Startup technology firm Pony.ai agreed to issue a recall for some versions of its autonomous driving system software after an October crash in California, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday.

The recall covers three vehicles that have been repaired, the company told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administr
Tesla Driver on Autopilot Ran a Red Light, Crashing into a Car and Killing Two People in Los Angeles Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction Early on, the software had the regrettable habit of hitting police cruisers. No one knew why, though Tesla’s engineers had some good guesses: Stationary objects and flashing lights seemed to trick the A.I. The car would be driving along normally, the computer well in control, and suddenly it would veer to the right or left and — _smash_ — at least 10 times in
Alexa Recommended Dangerous TikTok Challenge to Ten-Year-Old Girl TikTok self-harm study results ‘every parent’s nightmare’ TikTok’s recommendation algorithm pushes self-harm and eating disorder content to teenagers within minutes of them expressing interest in the topics, research suggests.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that the video-sharing site will promote content including dangerously restrictive diets, pro-self-harm content and content romanticising suicide to users
Facebook’s Hate Speech Detection Algorithms Allegedly Disproportionately Failed to Remove Racist Content towards Minority Groups How Facebook Hides How Terrible It Is With Hate Speech In public, Facebook seems to claim that it removes more than 90 percent of hate speech on its platform, but in private internal communications the company says the figure is only an atrocious 3 to 5 percent. Facebook wants us to believe that almost all hate speech is taken down, when in reality almost all of it rem
Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often Once again, racial biases show up in AI image databases, this time turning Barack Obama white A new computer vision technique that helps convert blurry photos of people into fake, realistic images has come under fire for being racially biased towards white people.

The tool known as [PULSE](http://pulse.cs.duke.edu/) was introduced by a group of researchers from Duke University, and was [presented
Researchers' Homosexual-Men Detection Model Denounced as a Threat to LGBTQ People’s Safety and Privacy Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine Michal Kosinski felt he had good reason to teach a machine to detect sexual orientation.

An Israeli start-up had started hawking a service that predicted terrorist proclivities based on facial analysis. Chinese companies were developing facial recognition software not only to catch known criminals — but also to help the government pre
Collaborative Filtering Prone to Popularity Bias, Resulting in Overrepresentation of Popular Items in the Recommendation Outputs Popularity Bias in Collaborative Filtering-Based Multimedia Recommender Systems Introduction

Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most traditional but also most powerful concepts for calculating personalized recommendations [22] and is vastly used in the field of multimedia recommender systems (MMRS) [11]. However, one issue of CF-based approaches is that they a
Fake LinkedIn Profiles Created Using GAN Photos Move Over Global Disinformation Campaigns, Deepfakes Have a New Role: Corporate Spamming Have you ever ignored a seemingly random LinkedIn solicitor and been left with a weird feeling that something about the profile just seemed…off? Well, it turns out, in some cases, those sales reps hounding you might not actually be human beings at all. Yes, AI-generated deepfakes have come for LinkedIn and they’d like to connect.

That’s according to recent res
Starship’s Autonomous Food Delivery Robot Allegedly Stranded at Railroad Crossing in Oregon, Run over by Freight Train Autonomous food delivery pod meets fiery end under train Starting to slip into the Friday afternoon doldrums? Here's one from the let's-see-what's-on-social-media-today file: an autonomous food delivery robot putting up a noble defense against a freight locomotive after apparently becoming stranded in a railroad crossing. Sure, the tiny scrapper ultimately loses, but it was cert
Google’s Assistive Writing Feature Provided Allegedly Unnecessary and Clumsy Suggestions Google Docs' inclusive writing auto-correct under fire The AI algorithms used by Google Docs to suggest edits to make writing more inclusive have been blasted for being annoying.

Language models are used in Google Docs for features like Smart Compose; it suggests words to autocomplete sentences as a user types. The Chocolate Factory now wants to go further than that, and is rolling out "assistive writing,"
Tesla Owner Activated "Smart Summon" Feature, Causing a Collision with an Aircraft in a Washington Airport Tesla collides with private jet while owner uses 'Smart Summon' mode The car was in "Smart Summon" mode when it ran into the jet. The feature was introduced by Tesla in 2019 and is still a beta feature.

Autopilot fail!

Camera caught a self-driving Tesla crashing into a $3.5 million private jet.

The car was reported on 'smart summon' mode where the empty car navigates to your location. Te
DALL-E 2 Reported for Gender and Racially Biased Outputs AI art tool DALL-E 2 adds 'black' or 'female' to some image prompts Researchers experimenting with OpenAI's text-to-image tool, DALL-E 2, noticed that it seems to covertly be adding words such as "black" and "female" to image prompts, seemingly in an effort to diversify its output

Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI seems to be covertly modifying requests to DALL-E 2, its advanced text-to-image AI, in an attempt to make it appear that the
Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers Tweet: @bethanyhallam Did I just… get a lifetime [@Airbnb](https://twitter.com/Airbnb) booking ban for a 9 year old possession charge?!? 🤯 Could you be banned from Airbnb for your Instagram posts? An investigation by the Australian consumer rights organisation, Choice, has found that the online accommodation marketplace Airbnb is secretly collecting users’ personal data to assess
TikTok's "For You" Algorithm Directed New Users towards Disinformation about the War in Ukraine WarTok: TikTok is feeding war disinformation to new users within minutes — even if they don’t search for Ukraine-related content TikTok is feeding false and misleading content about the war in Ukraine to users within 40 minutes of their signing up to the app, regardless of whether they run any searches on the platform, an investigation by NewsGuard has found.

Moreover, NewsGuard found that searching
ByteDance Allegedly Trained "For You" Algorithm Using Content Scraped without Consent from Other Social Platforms TikTok owner ByteDance scraped content from Instagram and others to push predecessor app The company repurposed content from other platforms as a growth hack for Flipagram.

To fuel the rise of its app Flipagram, TikTok parent company Bytedance scraped profiles, videos, usernames and other content from Instagram and other social media platforms. Buzzfeed reported that the Chinese com
Uber Launched Opaque Algorithm That Changes Drivers' Payments in the US Uber tests new algorithm in the US that can change driver payments Uber is testing a new driver earnings algorithm in 24 U.S. cities that allows drivers to see pay and destinations before accepting a trip and raises the incentives for drivers to take short rides in an effort to attract more drivers. In Brazil, the second-largest market for the application and where inflation and the price of gasoline have been putting pressu
AI-Generated Profiles Used in Disinformation Campaign Targeting Ukrainians Последние новости о нашей работе в Украине по обеспечению безопасности пользователей *Натаниэль Глейчер, глава политики безопасности, и Давид Агранович, директор, предотвращение угрозами*

-   Мы удалили сеть аккаунтов, страниц и груп, нацеленных на Украину, управляемую из Украины и России, за нарушение нашей политики против [скоординированного недостоверного поведения](https://about.fb.com/news/tag/coordinated-inauthenti
Tesla Phantom Braking Complaints Surged, Allegedly Linked to Tesla Vision Rollout Teslas Are Braking for No Reason, But That’s Not Autopilot’s Only Problem The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released a damning report on Tesla’s Level 2 driver assist systems, called Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. Over 750 Tesla owners have reported their vehicles have mysteriously stopped on roadways for no clear reason. While that should be a concern for Tesla, it’s also far from th
Tesla Disabled “Rolling Stop” Functionality Associated with the “Aggressive” Driving Mode Tesla’s Full Self-Driving “Assertive” Mode Is the Driving Style No One Appreciates Adjusting following distance, lane change speeds, and even executing rolling stops.

Drivers using Tesla (NASDAQGS:TSLA +7.43%) ‘s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta can now choose between three different driving profiles that will determine how the car will react to various situations on the road. Tesla is offering a “Chill,” “Ave
Indian Political App Tek Fog Allegedly Hijacked Trends and Manipulated Public Opinion on Other Social Media Platforms Right-wing Indians have their own app to manipulate WhatsApp and Twitter Social media operatives apparently affiliated to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) use a specialized app to hijack Twitter trends, harass critics, and spread propaganda through defunct WhatsApp accounts, according to a new investigation by The Wire, an Indian publication.

The app, called Tek Fog,
SN Technologies Reportedly Lied to a New York State School District about Its Facial and Weapon Detection Systems’ Performance Facial Recognition Company Lied to School District About its Racist Tech Documents reveal Lockport Schools' facial recognition tech has mistaken broom handles for guns and has misidentified Black students at much higher rates.

Ever since they learned that Lockport City School District intended to install a network of facial recognition cameras in its buildings, parents
Facebook Content Moderators Demand Better Working Conditions Due to Allegedly Inadequate AI Content Moderation Open letter from content moderators re: pandemic November 2020

Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Anne Heraty (CEO, CPL/Covalen), Julie Sweet (CEO, Accenture)

Via email and posting on Facebook’s Workplace channels

Open letter from content moderators re: pandemic

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, Ms. Sandberg, Ms. Heraty, Ms. Sweet

We, the undersigned Facebook content moderators and Facebook empl
Robot at a Chinese Tech Fair Smashed a Glass Booth, Injuring a Visitor Tech-fair visitor is injured after a robot designed to teach CHILDREN 'loses control' and smashes a booth in China A visitor to a Chinese tech fair was injured yesterday after a robot suddenly went out of control and smashed a booth, according to Chinese media.

The three-foot-tall droid, which has been launched recently, is designed by a Chinese company to teach children English and is popular among families.

The victim sus
Facebook Mistakenly Blocked Small Business Ads Facebook's AI-fueled attempt to block bad ads is hurting legitimate small business owners — and its 'pay-to-play' customer support is leaving them stranded ahead of the holiday shopping season In mid-March, even as it encouraged its full-time employees to work remotely, Facebook's largely contract-based content moderators were still required to be in the office. Amid public pressure, Facebook eventually sent them home as well, saying it would rely m