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#ComputerScientists Caution Against Internet #AgeVerification Mandates
An #openletter warns of #censorship, centralized power, and loss of #privacy.
The computer scientists aren't just responding to California's law. #Age-verification requirements are spreading across the world. "The age-gating wave is coming along with calls for stronger child safety measures online, despite concerns about privacy, security, and censorship."
https://reason.com/2026/03/04/computer-scientists-caution-against-internet-age-verification-mandates/

Two #ETH Zurich #ComputerScientists, Menna El-Assady and Bernhard Schölkopf, have been #Elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the newly established Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a landmark initiative assessing the opportunities and risks of AI.

Professors Menna El-Assady and...

I cannot get enough of our shared Vulgar Technobabble that we #ComputerScientists speak. Even #ACM #TuringAward winning blokes speak this way.🤣

Interviewer—What is a good way to understand what #ModelChecking is and what it does?

#AllenEmerson—[staring intently at his toes] Well, uh, in "layman's terms", model checking is an algorithmic method of verifying correctness of nominally finite state systems, uh, against a specification that's typically given in temporal logic. Uh, if the model checker, the model checking tool that's been implemented, uh, returns "yes", then the system is correct. If it, uh, returns "no", the specification is violated, and a counterexample is produced.

Sure, we get it; it is but #SoftwareVerification in so many words. But does a "layman" get it?

https://youtu.be/sUwxA8px7O8?si=O4MVOVDT2rkIToNd

#VulgarLatin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin

Happy birthday #DonaldKnuth! 🥳🎉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

#ComputerScience #ComputerScientists #Mathematicians

We lost another pioneer. 😢

https://www.advocate.com/news/lynn-conway-transgender-computer-scientist

#LynnConway #ComputerScientists #trans

Lynn Conway
1938-2024 🙌🏽

#conway #computerscientists #activism #LGBTQ

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iphone-science-trans-woman-lynn-conway-b2458269.html

»Is #Google getting #worse? This is what leading #computerscientists say: It’s not just you—the search engine superpower does have a #spam problem, a new #study claims.« https://www.fastcompany.com/91012311/is-google-getting-worse-this-is-what-leading-computer-scientists-say?eicker.media #media #socialmedia

Just added to our newsroom.

A 2022 paper co-authored by University of #Vermont based Cluster member Byung Lee describes ways #ComputerScientists are working to develop and deploy usable and trustworthy graphs.

Read "That Doesn't Belong There" via the link below.

https://criticalzone.org/news-events/that-doesnt-belong-there

#CompSci #DataVisualization #EnvironmentalScience

@Mer__edith,
even though annoying for you, I am glad that in you and the others, there finally seem to be #ComputerScientists, who did see the future coming a year ago.

Did any of you publish any warnings?

I am looking for publications that could lead to an analogy of "BigOilKnew" for the #AI firms.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438

@PrivacyDigest It'll be a bit hard for the government to #audit the 'black box' of #AI when the #ComputerScientists who created it are unable to do so.

And why does a language generator need to be considered #trustworthy? There's no regulation forcing your computer monitor to only display absolute truths. I'd much rather the #government spend its efforts on making the government trustworthy rather than #tech.

#NIST is hiring #computerScientists passionate about #responsibleAI to build tooling for the #AI RMF! The openings will close on March 28th or when 250 ppl apply, whichever comes first so apply now! @revas https://usajobs.gov/job/714416900#shorten-link

#CategoryTheory is to #ComputerScientists
UML is to OO coders.

Beena Ammanath, who leads #TrustworthyTechEthics at #Deloitte, said that “unintended consequences” accompany every new technology and reluctantly expressed confidence that it too will occur with AI #chatbots, unless significant precautions are taken.

Ammanath stressed that #ComputerScientists working on AI have yet to solve for #bias, a years-long problem. One major problem is that "AI bots cannot separate truth from fantasy."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/06/media/google-microsoft-ai-reliable-sources/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2023-02-07T14%3A30%3A15&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN

#ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics

Can #ComputerScientists devise ways to go beyond #DeepLearning? There may be better means to help #ArtificialIntelligence think more like humans. A PNAS News Feature: http://ow.ly/iH0O50KO4EJ
#AI #psychology #CognitiveScience