The Week in Internet News: Tech Giants’ ‘Ethical AI’ Efforts Scrutinized

Building nice AIs: Efforts by large tech vendors to think about ways to design “ethical Artificial Intelligence” systems have hit some speedbumps along the way, says Insurance Journal. Google abandoned its newly formed ethical AI council after employee complaints about its membership. Some critics say efforts to create ethical AI teams are attempts by companies to avoid regulations.

No smoking
or bikinis:
Business
Insider India has a look
at the efforts of the Chinese government to
police Internet and social media content, with smoking, excessive tattoos, and
in some cases, bikinis prohibited. At Inke, one of China’s largest livestreaming
companies, a group of about 1,200 moderators attempt to keep up with the
government’s rules, the story says.

Fake news
arms race:
Facebook has announced a new round of efforts to fight fake news
with updates to updates to News Feed, Messenger, and Instagram, Fortune
reports
. The social media giant is expanding its fact-checking
capabilities, and it is trying to limit the reach of groups that repeatedly
spread misinformation. Facebook also says it’s getting better at identifying
click-bait.

Comments
gone wild:
YouTube shut down comments on the livestream of a U.S. Congress
hearing on white nationalism after the comments section was flooded with what
parent company Google called “hateful” language, CNBC.com
reports
. Who could’ve seen that coming?

That’s a lot of
money:
Yahoo
has reached a settlement of $117.5 million for a data breach and about 200
million customers will get free credit monitoring for breaches in 2013 and
2014, CBS News
says
. Judge Lucy Koh had questioned the calculations that led to an
earlier settlement of about $50 million.

Here we are again: The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would restore net neutrality rules killed by the Federal Communications Commission in late 2017, Wired.com notes. Still, after a decade and a half of legal and political fights over the rules, the bill faces very long odds in the Senate, where the Republican majority is likely to reject the House bill.

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