The Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University / Irina Raicu behind the keyboard
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Recordings of the 4 webinars in our recent series on #AI and the papal encyclical are now available: scu.edu/ethics/events/ai-and… #ethics #tech #education #highered #religion #labor
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In anticipation of Thanksgiving dinners post-elections: "Conversation is always more than what we say": news.scu.edu/ask-a-jesuit/ #ethics
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#Peace always begins “here and now” and depends on how we behave, how we look at one another, how we respect one another, and how we listen to one another. If we wish to spread peace, we must first safeguard and nurture it before God, within ourselves and among those dear to us, and then spread it in our communities and in the various spheres of social and political life. #ApostolicJourney #Peru
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Ukraine says SpaceX Starshield is restricted again; SpaceX claims it isn’t arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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A "human team of FAA specialists based in DC is ultimately responsible for validating the SMART system recommendations before passing them along to air traffic control facilities across the country, according to the agency." #ethics #AI #gov #tech
FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/f…
A "human team of FAA specialists based in DC is ultimately responsible for validating the SMART system recommendations before passing them along to air traffic control facilities across the country, according to the agency." #ethics #AI #gov #tech
FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/f…
Ukraine says SpaceX Starshield is restricted again; SpaceX claims it isn’t arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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Ars Live: Can the cloud survive drone strikes on data centers? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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The European Commission is ordering Google to share the search data of all Europeans with other companies (AI chatbot makers, search engines, etc.), after a kind of "anonymisation". I tested it on the real Google data, hundreds of billions of search records. I broke it.
Findings. I singled out the people behind half a million searches, and that only for few countries over one month of August (record isolation). I joined the pieces of search history beyond the defined cap of 3, more than 200,000 sets just for Germany and only in August (linkage). I also confirm that it is possible to perform inference on the dataset, for example concerning health, religion or political opinions. This moves us beyond data protection, and in the national security direction.
My report: "Alone among a thousand". (link below)
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"Himes acknowledged that the legislation is 'controversial' and said it is 'always challenging' to push it through Congress... because of bipartisan concerns that the warrantless #surveillance #law inadvertently sweeps up American #data": politico.com/live-updates/20… #ethics #privacy
#Peace always begins “here and now” and depends on how we behave, how we look at one another, how we respect one another, and how we listen to one another. If we wish to spread peace, we must first safeguard and nurture it before God, within ourselves and among those dear to us, and then spread it in our communities and in the various spheres of social and political life. #ApostolicJourney #Peru
In anticipation of Thanksgiving dinners post-elections: "Conversation is always more than what we say": news.scu.edu/ask-a-jesuit/ #ethics
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"Himes acknowledged that the legislation is 'controversial' and said it is 'always challenging' to push it through Congress... because of bipartisan concerns that the warrantless #surveillance #law inadvertently sweeps up American #data": politico.com/live-updates/20… #ethics #privacy
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An important update and apology from Transformer regarding our AI Campaign Finance Tracker:
Today we discovered an error in our AI Campaign Finance Tracker. A bug in how our tracker deduplicates filings which has meant that we have undercounted spending from American Mission, part of the Leading the Future network, by about $9.6m, and double-counted about $1.4m of spending by Guardrails Alliance, a pro-safety PAC.
The bug was introduced in late June, and most of the error built up in late October. Since the bug was introduced, our headline figures have therefore been undercounting “pro-innovation” spending and overcounted “pro-safety” spending. Post-midterms, our headline figures were $44.4m pro-safety vs $27.9m pro-innovation, or 1.6 to 1. The corrected figures are about $42.9m vs $37.0m, about 1.16 to 1. Pro-safety groups still outspent industry, but by much less than we reported.
We know lots of people relied on our tracker as a source of truth in the midterms: as the editor ultimately responsible for it, I am very sorry that its numbers have not been accurate.
The tracker has now been corrected and checked against FEC filings, so it is now accurate. Going forward, if we run a similar project in 2028 we will implement better review processes to make sure an error like this cannot happen again.
