Karina Kesserwan
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Karina Kesserwan
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Lawyer and other (more fun) stuff - #IndigenousRights, #Reconciliation, #Arctic + #AI. Mostly interested in humans, their wellbeing and their environment(s). #Ethics #Justice
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karinakesserwan.bsky.social
Building AI data centers on Indigenous lands requires meaningful consultation and agreements that genuinely benefit Indigenous communities.

ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
Alberta First Nation voices ’grave concern’ over Kevin O’Leary’s proposed $70B AI data centre | RCI
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation concerned about environmental impact of Wonder Valley
ici.radio-canada.ca
January 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by Karina Kesserwan
sashamtl.bsky.social
Welcome to the dataset countdown of the 🌱 Frugal AI Challenge 🌱, part of the #AIActionSummit 2025. Over the next 5 days, we’ll be sharing the 3 datasets over the span of one week, with details about each task, dataset and partner organization.
December 16, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Karina Kesserwan
carissaveliz.bsky.social
"AI #marketing overwhelmingly neglects its potential negative consequences. Out of 290 articles published over the past 10 years from 15 high-ranking marketing journals, only 33 of them addressed the potential “dark side” of AI marketing." #AIEthics

theconversation.com/ai-has-been-...
AI has been a boon for marketing, but the dark side of using algorithms to sell products and brands is little studied
Research on artificial intelligence in marketing overwhelmingly neglects its potential negative consequences, a new study finds.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:32 PM
karinakesserwan.bsky.social
Why did I assume it was a joke? Sadly it is not. An actual company selling “AI Employees” (their words). Also : why is it always female “humanoids”?
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Dec 6
the future of humanity the tech industry envisages is one that dehumanises humans
December 7, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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davidthewid.bsky.social
📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies. 



This means "open" AI… isn't very open.

📄 From me, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @smw.bsky.social in Nature:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshot of Nature website of linked article with title "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1" and abstract: This paper examines ‘open’ artificial intelligence (AI). Claims about ‘open’ AI often lack precision, frequently eliding scrutiny of substantial industry concentration in large-scale AI development and deployment, and often incorrectly applying understandings of ‘open’ imported from free and open-source software to AI systems. At present, powerful actors are seeking to shape policy using claims that ‘open’ AI is either beneficial to innovation and democracy, on the one hand, or detrimental to safety, on the other. When policy is being shaped, definitions matter. To add clarity to this debate, we examine the basis for claims of openness in AI, and offer a material analysis of what AI is and what ‘openness’ in AI can and cannot provide: examining models, data, labour, frameworks, and computational power. We highlight three main affordances of ‘open’ AI, namely transparency, reusability, and extensibility, and we observe that maximally ‘open’ AI allows some forms of oversight and experimentation on top of existing models. However, we find that openness alone does not perturb the concentration of power in AI. Just as many traditional open-source software projects were co-opted in various ways by large technology companies, we show how rhetoric around ‘open’ AI is frequently wielded in ways that exacerbate rather than reduce concentration of power in the AI sector.
December 4, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Karina Kesserwan
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Reposted by Karina Kesserwan
newhumanist.bsky.social
"I think so many of us are willing to believe in 'superhuman' AI because we’ve lost our faith in human power and potential ... We think 'maybe the machines will do better.'

But the machines won’t do any better"

#AI #tech #philosophy #ethics #humanism
How AI prevents progress
Shannon Vallor, an expert in ethics and artificial intelligence, says relying too much on AI will hold back societal progress
newhumanist.org.uk
October 15, 2024 at 9:33 AM