Partnership on AI

07/27/2023

How do we foster media and information literacy skills in the age of AI?

PAI’s Claire Leibowicz recently joined Charlie Beckett (The London School of Economics and Political Science), Jeremy Kahn (Fortune), and Sonja Solomun (McGill University) at Viva Technology for an engaging discussion on navigating the complex media landscape.

Watch 👉 https://vimeo.com/836926498

07/20/2023

LISTEN 🎧 Dalia Hashim, PAI's AI and Media Integrity Program Lead, joined the Newsroom Robots podcast to discuss engaging with AI vendors and managing the ethical implications of AI in newsrooms.

Episode takeaways:

1️⃣ When engaging with AI vendors, it is essential to prioritize clear communication, understand tool limitations, and maintain effective oversight.

2️⃣ Addressing the dilemma of AI and job displacement in newsrooms requires open communication and including journalists in decision-making processes.

3️⃣ PAI's future plans to support newsrooms, including the synthetic media framework and our upcoming procurement guidebook.

Listen to the full episode to hear Dalia’s insights ➡️ https://link.chtbl.com/CNffiMqM

07/18/2023

Many factors influence the trajectory of AI and its impact on the economy, including several that are hard to quantify.

What problems are considered worth tackling? How are they defined, and what does success look like? PAI's Katya Klinova addresses these questions and highlights other findings in her chapter of the Oxford .

Read the research summary in Montreal AI Ethics Institute:

🔬 Research Summary by Katya Klinova, the Head of AI, Labor and the Economy at the Partnership on AI, where she works on developing mechanisms for steering AI in service of improving job access and job…

07/17/2023

What questions should your newsroom ask before using AI?

PAI’s Dalia Hashim joined Maggie Farley (ICFJ) for a discussion last month exploring this very topic.

Labeling and accuracy are top of mind, but importantly communicating how and why your newsroom uses AI is essential for building audience trust.

Read more from Héloïse Hakimi Le Grand:

At Media Party Chicago, a conference exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and journalism, attendees debated and learned about the opportunities and dangers of AI. Ethics experts proposed frameworks for responsible use of powerful new technologies, developers taught journalists how t...

07/14/2023

To prevent the misuse of content, organizations must prioritize responsible practices.

We are thrilled to announce that Google has joined PAI's Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media, further expanding this community of experts dedicated to responsible practices.

Discover more about the collaboration: https://partnershiponai.org/pai-announces-google-to-join-framework-for-collective-action-on-synthetic-media/

07/13/2023

At PAI's recent 2023 Partner Forum, over 100 industry, academia, and civil society representatives came together to supercharge PAI’s ongoing work, create connections, and inspire new ideas for supporting AI that benefits all.

So what’s next for responsible AI? Here are our top takeaways from the Forum:

1. Cross-sectoral collaboration is essential
2. Inclusive practices are a must — and must be done right
3. Recognition of AI’s potential grants us an important opportunity

Read our latest blog for more ⏩ https://partnershiponai.org/the-future-of-responsible-ai-3-key-insights-from-pais-2023-partner-forum/

07/12/2023

We're excited to welcome our Partner, Meedan, to PAI's AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee! 👏

Joining a group of esteemed institutions, they will advise and collaborate on projects related to the intersection of AI, digital media, and online information.

Learn more about our AI and Media Integrity program 👉 https://bit.ly/3NLBrVz

The AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee is focused on projects confronting the emergent threat of AI-generated mis/disinformation, synthetic media, and AI’s effects on public discourse.

07/07/2023

POV - Your new colleague is bossing you around, only it's an AI system named Charlie.

With controversial AI systems increasingly showing up in the workplace, how can we use this technology to our benefit? More importantly, how can we keep our jobs?

PAI's Stephanie Bell joins Lisa Bannon on the Wall Street Journal podcast to discuss.

📻 Listen here:

Worried that AI is coming for your job? From ChatGPT writing emails to Midjourney making up images, it’s easy to think that AI could replace many of us at work. But the reality is, AI’s been part of some workplaces for longer than you might realize, including in call centers. WSJ’s Lisa Bannon...

07/06/2023

The impact of AI on the cannot be underestimated. However, with proactive efforts, we can pave the way for workers to reap the benefits.

Take action with PAI's new resource - a tool to make AI work for workers.👇

Explore PAI’s Guidelines for AI and Shared Prosperity: tools to design and deploy AI systems in service of workers' rights and well-being.

07/05/2023

AI is reinventing how journalists write news, but this technology is also helping newsrooms connect with readers and reach new audiences.

"If we think of AI as a support tool in a lot of these various arenas, we get a lot more mileage out of what AI can actually do," PAI's Dalia Hashim explains in Nieman Reports: https://niemanreports.org/articles/artificial-intelligence-newsrooms/

Interested in learning more about using AI? Explore PAI's database of AI tools for newsrooms: https://partnershiponai.org/workstream/local-news/

07/05/2023

As AI capabilities rapidly develop, the machine learning community needs a coordinated community effort to anticipate and mitigate the potential harms of this technology.

The few experimental ethics review practices that exist have been met with mixed concerns, highlighting the need for shared best practices.

In this Nature Machine Intelligence commentary, PAI staff, Partners and collaborators recommend three steps:

✅ Study community behavior in response to ethics review practices in AI research and share learnings
✅ Expand experimentation of ethical review
✅ Create venues for debate, alignment and collective action

Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00585-2

07/03/2023

"Claire Leibowicz, who is head of AI and media integrity at the Partnership on AI, argued that the 'volume, accessibility and reach' that generative AI potentially gives to misinformation does represent a difference from previous forms of manipulated content."

Read more from Jeremy Kahn via Fortune:

But others worry about 'the liar's dividend'