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The supply chain capitalism of AI: A call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens

Ana Valdivia

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven into a supply chain of capital, commodities and human labour that has been neglected in critical debates. Given the current surge in generative AI – which is estimated to drive up the extraction of natural resources such as minerals, fossil fuels or water – ... more

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The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing

Daniel S. Schiff, Stephanie Kelley, Javier Camacho Ibáñez

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.

"The emerging ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and governance auditing has grown rapidly in recent years in anticipation of impending regulatory efforts that encourage both internal and external auditing. Yet, there is limited understanding of this evolving landscape. We conduct an i ... more

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AI in Journalism Challenge 2023. Final Report

David Caswell

New York: Open Society Foundations (2024), 60 pp.

"This report describes the Applied AI in Journalism Challenge (AIJC)—a competitive accelerator program intended to prototype pragmatic applications of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in mission-driven newsrooms around the world. The program was launched in June 2023 and ran until Novembe ... r 2023. Funding was provided by the Open Society Foundations. The author of this report was the lead consultant for the project. The AIJC program was the first of its kind and therefore was itself a prototype—both of a process for accelerating the pragmatic adoption of AI within newsrooms, and also of an approach to developing investment opportunities around applying AI to news. The program was largely successful, developing a cohort of capable and motivated teams and actively engaging with them as they developed substantial new capabilities. The program also succeeded in producing a range of practical insights for its different stakeholder groups—newsrooms, program operators, investors, and the news industry generally. This report provides a complete record of the AIJC program. The primary intention in writing it is to contribute the experience and insights accumulated during the program to the global journalism community, and to provide sufficient detail and specificity to be directly useful to anyone seeking to apply those lessons to hands-on projects, accelerator programs, and investments. The first section of the report provides a systematic description of the program, including why it was initiated, what it was trying to achieve, how it was set up, and how it actually played out in practice. The second section reviews the tangible outcomes of the program and describes the “funneling” of projects from the proposals in the initial applications, to the teams selected to participate in the program, to the finalist projects, to the eventual program winner (and runner up). The third section lists the specific lessons learned by the AIJC community, one by one, with a detailed explanation of each lesson and the evidence for it from the program. The fourth section gathers and analyzes these lessons to provide a succinct set of specific recommendations, organized for newsrooms, for operators of similar AI in news accelerator programs, for investors, and finally for the global news ecosystem. The fifth and final section draws on those lessons to look into the near future and offers some general opinions and guidance for changes that we might anticipate for news in the age of AI, as well as some guidance for preparing journalism for that transformation." (Introduction, page 4) more

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The CLeAR Documentation Framework for AI Transparency: Recommendations for Practitioners and Context for Policymakers

Kasia Chmielinksi, Sarah Newman, Chris N. Kranzinger et al.

Shorenstein Center (2024), 35 pp.

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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy

Kai-Hsin Hung

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 7 pp.

"We present a framework for viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as planetary assemblages of coloniality that reproduce dependencies in how it co-constitutes and structures a tiered global data economy. We use assemblage thinking to map the coloniality of power to demonstrate how AI stratifies acros ... more

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User empowerment through Media and Information Literacy responses to the evolution of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)

Divina Frau-Meigs

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 16 pp.

"The goal of this policy brief is to demonstrate how stakeholders can apply the lens of Media and Information Literacy for all to Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI/GAI) to address its risks and opportunities in the information and digital ecologies. A special focus is on ... more

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Governing AI for Humanity
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High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence

United Nations (2024), 100 pp.

"This report outlines a blueprint for addressing AI-related risks and sharing its transformative potential globally, including by: urging the UN to lay the foundations of the first globally inclusive and distributed architecture for AI governance based on international cooperation; proposin ... more

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Los caminos regulatorios para la IA en América Latina: Recopilación de estudios de caso en Brasil, México, Perú y Colombia

AlSur (2024), 24 pp.

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AI Ready – Analysis Towards a Standardized Readiness Framework

Geneva: ITU (2024), vi, 55 pp.

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Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective

ITU-WMO-UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management

Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 14 pp.

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Mentorship toolkit: Creating sustainable business and funding models with open source AI

Villgro Africa

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All (2024), 48 pp.

"This toolkit is designed to help you create and run a successful mentorship program that will support and empower opensource AI entrepreneurs to develop sustainable businesses and funding models for their projects. Open source AI is a rapidly growing field that offers many opportunities for innovat ... more

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From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT’s impact through disruptive events

Skyler Wang, Ned Cooper, Margaret Eby

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 14 pp.

"Large language models (LLMs) and dialogue agents represent a significant shift in artificial intelligence (AI) research, particularly with the recent release of the GPT family of models. ChatGPT’s generative capabilities and versatility across technical and creative domains led to its widespread ... more

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Mapping Scholarship on Algorithmic Bias: Conceptualization, Empirical Results, and Ethical Concerns

Seungahn Nah, Jun Luo, Jungseock Joo

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 548-569

"As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more seamlessly integrated into our social life, the unfair outcomes and ethical issues associated with AI and its subtechnologies have been widely discussed in scholarly work across disciplines in recent years. This study provides an overview of the conceptu ... more

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Disinformation and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Security Implications of AI-Altered Information Environments

Eduardo Albrecht, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs, Rebecca Brubaker

New York, Geneva: United Nations University (UNU) (2024), 39 pp.

"[...] this report aims to further explore the way in which AI technologies as they currently stand impact peace and conflict, and what methods might be used to mitigate their adverse effects - through the development of better tools and the inclusion of peace and conflict considerations in AI gover ... nance frameworks. The report presents the following findings: 1. AI is a driver of disinformation which adversely impacts peacebuilding efforts. 2. There are several ways to mitigate AI-powered disinformation. 3. AI can also be used to promote peacebuilding, although these mechanisms are still in their early stages. In relation to these findings, the report proposes the following recommendations: 1. More funding and support should be provided to civil society organizations’ efforts to expand media literacy and fact-checking initiatives using AI tools to enhance capabilities. 2. Governments need to work with civil society to develop and implement comprehensive, transparent legal frameworks combating disinformation. These legislative measures need to support digital and media literacy campaigns and fact-checking organizations. 3. Social media companies need to expand investment and research into understanding local information environments, so they can better identify and respond to instances of disinformation in all contexts in which they operate and enhance transparency. 4. Peacebuilding organizations need to carefully consider local media ecosystems and information environments when conducting conflict analyses, and factor these dynamics into their projects’ frameworks. Currently, disinformation exacerbates existing grievances and polarization, can act as a trigger for violence, leads individuals to make decisions based on false information, and creates or intensifies mistrust of institutions and international peacebuilding efforts. The efforts of journalists and civil society organizations to combat these effects, primarily through media literacy initiatives and factchecking, cannot keep up with the scope and scale of ‘fake news.’ Generative AI will increase the rate at which false content is produced and disseminated, and the quality or ‘believability’ of such content. Governments, civil society, and social media companies must work in tandem to combat the spread of disinformation and the impact it can have on peacebuilding efforts and security in sub-Saharan Africa." (Executive summary) more

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Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society

Dan Hendrycks

Boca Raton; London: CRC Press (2024), xvi, 543 pp.

"As AI technology is rapidly progressing in capability and being adopted more widely across society, it is more important than ever to understand the potential risks AI may pose and how AI can be developed and deployed safely. Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society offers a comprehensive and ... more

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Inteligência Artificial & Igreja: Reflexões a Partir da Mensagem do Papa Francisco para o 58° Dia Mundial das Comunicações Sociais 2024

Aline Amaro da Silva, Claudenir Modolo, Joana T. Puntel, Marcus Tullius, Magali Cunha, Moisés Sbardelotto, Ricardo Alvarenga

Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB); CNBB Grupo de Reflexão sobre Comunicação (Grecom); Pascom Brasil (2024), 76 pp.

"[...] a reflexão proposta pelo Papa Francisco para o Dia Mundial das Comunicações Sociais de 2024 é crucial para a ação evangelizadora da Igreja.[2] A partir do tema “Inteligência artificial e sabedoria do coração: para uma comunicação plenamente humana”, somos convidados a refletir ... sobre os impactos da inteligência artificial em nossa comunicação pessoal, social e eclesial, buscando sempre uma comunicação integralmente humana e humanizadora. A mensagem de Francisco nos leva a compreender que, em meio às inovações tecnológicas, nossa reflexão e ação devem partir do coração humano. A sabedoria do coração, entendida como a virtude que nos permite combinar o todo com as partes, as grandezas com as fragilidades, é essencial para interpretar a novidade do nosso tempo e encontrar o caminho para uma comunicação verdadeiramente humana. Diante das novas possibilidades e desafios trazidos pela IA, é fundamental questionarmos de que forma ela afetará a sociedade, a comunicação e também as igrejas. Será que a IA construirá novas castas baseadas na dominação informacional, gerando desigualdades e exploração? Ou, ao contrário, promoverá mais igualdade, informações corretas e maior consciência da transição de época que estamos atravessando? Para Francisco, “a resposta não está escrita; depende de nós”. Compete a nós, comunicadoras e comunicadores da mensagem de Jesus, decidir se permitiremos que a IA nos reduza a meros “funcionários algorítmicos” ou se nutriremos nossos corações com a liberdade que vem do Espírito, imprescindível para o crescimento na sabedoria. Para isso, devemos buscar “a Sabedoria que existe antes de todas as coisas”, como afirma o Papa. Este subsídio, produzido pelo Grupo de Reflexão sobre Comunicação (Grecom) da Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB), tem como objetivo oferecer uma reflexão sobre a mensagem do Papa Francisco deste ano e suas implicações para a comunicação católica no Brasil. Como parte essencial da Comissão Episcopal para a Comunicação Social, o Grecom tem a missão de refletir, estudar e pesquisar a comunicação, oferecendo subsídios que contribuam para uma comunicação mais humana, ética e responsável, a serviço da evangelização e da sociedade. Este subsídio está subdividido em seis seções, baseadas nas principais ideias apresentadas por Francisco em sua mensagem e também desdobrando-as a partir das contribuições do campo da Comunicação. Primeiramente, apresentamos uma definição geral do conceito de IA. Em seguida, repassamos oportunidades e perigos trazidos à tona por essa inovação. Frente a isso, destacamos alguns imperativos éticos que o desenvolvimento da IA suscita no agir humano. Depois, refletimos sobre a IA à luz do magistério da Igreja, particularmente do Papa Francisco. Com base nisso, indicamos alguns desafios e também possibilidades pastorais na relação da Igreja com os sistemas de IA. Por fim, levantamos algumas interrogações ainda em aberto na atualidade, que solicitam uma reflexão-ação constante rumo ao futuro que já estamos construindo hoje." (Introduçao, páginas 5-7) more

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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs: ITU AI for Good Innovation Factory 2020-2024 Activities Report

Geneva: ITU (2024), vi, 42 pp.

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AI in Global Development Playbook

USAID (2024), 46 pp.

"When used effectively and responsibly, artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to accelerate progress on sustainable development and close digital divides, but it also poses risks that could further impede progress toward these goals. With the right enabling environment and ecosystem of ac ... more

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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Media and Journalism in Central Europe: A study mapping the use of AI by newsrooms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

Marius Dragomir (ed.)

Thomson Foundation; Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) (2024), 18 pp.

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Gefühle der Zukunft: Wie wir mit emotionaler KI unser Leben verändern

Eva Weber-Guskar

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 271 pp.

"Längst ist Künstliche Intelligenz nicht mehr auf kognitive Zwecke begrenzt: Sie wertet, etwa zur Kriminalitätsprävention oder gezielten Kundenansprache, menschliche Mimik aus und suggeriert in Spielen oder Lernprogrammen Emotionen und Stimmungen. Erscheinen bereits solche auf Empfindungen ziele ... more

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