Previous posts on this topic:

Link drop: Technology nightmares, ep. 3
Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. My posts on this theme do NOT serve to fearmonger about or protest against technological advancement; they serve as a repeat warning to remind ourselves that humans are involved (who may get hurt if we go about things the wrong way).
Link drop: More inhumane technology nightmares
Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. Further to my previous link drop on this topic, more sources presented without further comment (hover over the images for alt text, click each image to be redirected to the original stories):
Link drop: AI & other inhumane nightmares
Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t. Presented without further comment (hover over the images for alt text, click each image to be redirected to the original stories):

Disclaimer: I love modern technology, provided we use it right… and unfortunately too often we don’t.

My posts on this theme do NOT serve to fearmonger about or protest against technological advancement; they serve as a repeat warning to remind ourselves that humans are involved (who may get hurt if we go about things the wrong way).

As before: sources presented without further comment (hover over the images for alt text, click each image to be redirected to the original stories):


A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal: Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
nytimes.com

Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away
bbc.com

Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Says Lawyer Used A.I. for ‘Ineffectual’ Defense Prakazrel Michel was convicted in April in an illegal foreign influence scheme. In a motion for a new trial, he said his lawyer’s closing argument was “frivolous.”
nytimes.com

Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says
vice.com

AI’s threat to democracy and labour looms large. UK’s ‘doomsday’ AI summit is poised to make things worse Governments have been captured by Big Tech, says actor and filmmaker Alex Winter. It’s impossible for them to protect their citizens
bigissue.com

An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francsisco with much hype. Why is it closed already?
theguardian.com


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Link drop: More technology-related nightmares (4)

Continued reminders that AI & other technology is only as good as the people using it.