Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake@respublicae.eu

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: In regulating emerging technologies like generative AI, governments face the seemingly impossible task of overseeing systems that may not be fully understood by their own developers, note @stanfordcyber’s @MarietjeSchaake and Steven Schuurman. https://bit.ly/4cnndFM

[2024-03-22 18:00 UTC]

Smullen: Veel gerechtjes bij restaurantketen ’t Zusje zijn zeer matig. Toch liepen we met een glimlach naar buiten ↘️
https://www.volkskrant.nl/a-b025b3d0

[2024-03-22 17:29 UTC]

The veto exposed the US’s diplomatic isolation in the UN, where it traditionally uses its Security Council veto rights to protect Israel >> Russia and China veto US resolution calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire in UN Security Council ↘️
https://on.ft.com/4cvkf1W

[2024-03-22 16:37 UTC]

We are about to witness the most intense famine since the second world war, in Gaza ↘️
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/we-are-about-to-witness-the-most-intense-famine-since-world-war-ii-in-gaza

[2024-03-22 05:07 UTC]

Learn more about the new technical roles as part of the EU AI Act’s AI Office >> Join an info call on Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM PST (hires only of EU citizens) ↘️
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/join-the-european-ai-office-in-brussels-as-technical-staff-tickets-861822864387

[2024-03-21 01:00 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: The digital infrastructure of AI technology is having very real impacts on the physical infrastructure of power grids and electrical supplies, a fact that tech companies needs to disclose and governments need to act on , says @MarietjeSchaake. https://ow.ly/tjPt50QWRNC

[2024-03-20 17:30 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Famine is projected to occur anytime between now and May in the northern governorates of Gaza, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday

Read more ⤵️
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147656

[2024-03-19 05:16 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Power grids are already facing immense pressures to deliver, and the advent of wide-spread AI adoption is only going to worsen the problem, warns @MarietjeSchaake. https://ow.ly/Z6SP50QU0Bm

[2024-03-18 16:01 UTC]

Musk joins open models camp ↘️
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/technology/chatbot-xai-code-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

[2024-03-18 06:26 UTC]

“The people that benefit from the spread of disinformation have effectively silenced many of the people that would try to call them out,” said ⁦
https://nitter.privacydev.net/katestarbird
⁩ ↘️
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-disinformation-2024-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

[2024-03-17 12:44 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: 🚨BREAKING: A few days ahead of its IPO, Reddit has just been notified by the US Federal Trade Commission that they are investigating the company's AI training deals. This is what Reddit disclosed:

"(...) on March 14, 2024, we received a letter from the FTC advising us that the FTC’s staff is conducting a non-public inquiry focused on our sale, licensing, or sharing of user-generated content with third parties to train AI models. Given the novel nature of these technologies and commercial arrangements, we are not surprised that the FTC has expressed interest in this area. We do not believe that we have engaged in any unfair or deceptive trade practice. The letter indicated that the FTC staff was interested in meeting with us to learn more about our plans and that the FTC intended to request information and documents from us as its inquiry continues. (...)"

Following.

*I've written about Reddit's and other companies' AI training deals in my newsletter, see link below.⬇️

[2024-03-16 18:33 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: This week, OpenAI saw its products booed at SXSW, and an embarrassing viral news cycle after its CTO claimed not to know if it had trained its models on YouTube videos.

Both incidents suggest the tide is turning against the world's biggest AI company:

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-tide-is-turning-against-openai

[2024-03-15 22:35 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: It begins. First federal lawsuit against G.M. and LexisNexis Risk Solutions for unfair and deceptive data collection was filed by a Cadillac owner in Florida yesterday. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/technology/gm-lexis-nexis-driving-data.html

[2024-03-14 23:01 UTC]

Nergens in DH de nodige vaccinatiegraad: De gemeente en GGD vermoeden dat de felle discussie over de veiligheid en het nut van de coronavaccins twijfel heeft gezaaid onder mensen die een paar jaar geleden nog achter vaccins voor kinderen stonden. ↘️
https://nos.nl/l/2512681

[2024-03-14 22:42 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: One of the simplest but most useful and appropriate pieces of AI regulation to adopt at the moment is to require model providers to document the training data they used. This is something that the @EU_Commission AI Act gets right … on p.62 of its 272 pages (!).

[2024-03-14 16:20 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: AI is expected to consume 10 times more power by 2026 than it did last year, a statistic aging power grids and energy infrastructure are simply not capable of handling, warns @MarietjeSchaake. https://www.ft.com/content/d38ebd3e-84a2-4c22-b84c-6528a1e2dd3b?sharetype=blocked

[2024-03-14 16:01 UTC]

Wie zich in Israël verzet tegen de uithongering van de bevolking van Gaza, riskeert arrestatie
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/13/waarom-zouden-wij-medelijden-moeten-tonen-met-de-bewoners-van-gaza-a4193010

[2024-03-14 06:32 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: UPDATE: Sen @RonWyden urges @Microsoft to withdraw Bing from 🇨🇳 China after @citizenlab report unearths censorship of political topics, and @rj_gallagher's reporting 👇

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-13/us-senator-urges-microsoft-to-pull-bing-out-of-china?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter via @technology

[2024-03-13 18:17 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Today’s attack on one of the very few remaining @UNRWA distribution centres in the #GazaStrip comes as food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine.

Every day, we share the coordinates of all our facilities across the Gaza Strip with parties to the conflict. The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday.

The @UN, its personnel, premises and assets must be protected at all times. Since this war began, attacks against UN facilities, convoys and personnel have become commonplace in blatant disregard to international humanitarian law.

I am calling once again for an independent inquiry into these violations and the need for accountability.

Full statement ⬇️
https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/least-one-unrwa-staff-killed-when-israeli-forces-hit-unrwa-centre-used

[2024-03-13 15:19 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Our stressed-out power grids can’t handle the AI revolution and tech companies are deliberately hiding both their bidding and their resource use. Time for standards and transparency to avoid a true crisis and ensure accountability ↘️ https://on.ft.com/3wSjuzJ

[2024-03-13 05:31 UTC]