The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 13
After a couple of months with tech leaders, including icon Bill Gates, praising artificial intelligence as the tool for the future, the backlash is here. More than 1 500 tech experts, among them Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and tech academics, issued a warning saying that the industry is locked in an out of control race to develop AI systems. The signatories say human-competitive intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity, and demand a six-month moratorium on research until better regulation could be put in place.
Women in the European Union still earn less than men for equal jobs. The average gender pay gap in the EU is 13%. The European Parliament has now approved EU’s new directive on pay transparency that was proposed in 2021. The directive gives workers right to information on pay in their category of work and companies must act if their gender pay gap is over 5%. The EU gender pay gap has only been reduced with 2.8 percentage points over 10 years, according to EU statistics.
Criminals’ potential use of generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT provides a grim outlook. Three areas are identified as especially critical: Fraud and Social engineering; Disinformation and; Cybercrime, Europol says. “Criminals are typically quick to exploit new technologies and were fast seen coming up with concrete criminal exploitations, providing first practical examples mere weeks after the public release of ChatGPT.”
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