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- Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/26/dry-io-wants-to-democratize-software-development-using-ai/ 82 comments
- Is AI the beginning of the democratization of creativity? https://www.haebom.dev/d367nxm345nwj2j98pv1?tl=en 10 comments
- House Democrats propose crackdown on fake, AI-generated robocalls https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/29/tech/ai-robocalls-crackdown-house-democrats/index.html 11 comments politics
- RNC’s AI-generated Biden attack ad puzzles pundits, Democrats https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3971120-rncs-ai-generated-biden-attack-ad-puzzles-pundits-democrats/ 30 comments politics
- How AI bots spread misinformation online and undermine democratic politics https://theconversation.com/how-ai-bots-spread-misinformation-online-and-undermine-democratic-politics-234915 7 comments technology
- Senate Democrats demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/23/openai-senate-democrats-ai-safe/ 7 comments politics
- Over-enthusiasm for AI is born out of a misguided hope of "democratizing" intelligence https://ykulbashian.medium.com/ai-enthusiasm-and-the-false-promise-of-democratizing-intelligence-ec7094215f4d 170 comments philosophy
- There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI | Transparency isn’t enough to democratize the technology https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/ai-transparency-meta-microsoft/677022/ 49 comments technology
- Democratic senator introduces bill targeting AI’s shortfalls https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-senator-introduces-bill-targeting-ais-shortfalls-rcna81959 2 comments technology
- The Job Market Apocalypse: We Must Democratize AI Now! https://absolutenegation.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/the-job-market-apocalypse-we-must-democratize-ai-now/ 183 comments philosophy
- Can We Democratize AI? - Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/can-we-democratize-ai 3 comments technology
- Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice - We need greater democratic oversight of AI https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/annette-zimmermann-elena-di-rosa-hochan-kim-technology-cant-fix-algorithmic 185 comments philosophy
- Microsoft using Ethereum blockchain to democratize machine learning and AI https://cryptoslate.com/microsoft-ethereum-blockchain-democratize-machine-learning-ai/ 21 comments ethereum
- Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE's Use of AI https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-federal-agencies-ai/ 10 comments politics
- Republican voters less confident than Democrats in spotting AI deepfakes, poll shows https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/voters-ai-deepfakes-poll?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 43 comments politics
- Tim Walz, speaking at Denver fundraiser, attacks Trump for AI gaffe and urges Democrats to battle to 2024 finish line https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/14/tim-walz-denver-fundraiser-2/ 37 comments politics
- Moderate Democratic coalition creates AI working group https://www.reuters.com/technology/moderate-democratic-coalition-creates-ai-working-group-2023-08-15/ 13 comments politics
- [LAION launches a petition to democratize AI research by establishing an international, publicly funded supercomputing facility equipped with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators to train open source foundation models. https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/securing-our-digital-future-a-cern-for-open-source-large-scale-ai-research-and-its-safety 7 comments artificial
- Docker and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize AI | run ML models locally, big step for self-hosted AI https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-and-hugging-face-partner-to-democratize-ai/ 4 comments selfhosted
- Google’s ‘Democratic AI’ is Better At Redistributing Wealth Than America https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34xvw/googles-democratic-ai-is-better-at-redistributing-wealth-than-america 395 comments technology
- Salesforce is using AI to democratize SQL so anyone can query databases in natural language https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/salesforce-is-using-ai-to-democratize-sql-so-anyone-can-query-databases-in-natural-language/ 6 comments technology
- Inside a radical new project to democratize AI - A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/ 2 comments technology
- Democratic lawmaker says AI deepfakes a bipartisan issue amid Taylor Swift incident https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4430501-democratic-lawmaker-ai-deepfakes-bipartisan-issue-taylor-swift-incident/ 24 comments politics
- VP Harris to meet with CEOs about artificial intelligence risks - The Democratic administration plans to announce an investment of $140 million to establish seven new AI research institutes. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/vp-harris-meet-ceos-artificial-intelligence-risks-rcna82835 15 comments futurology
- 3D for everyone? Nvidia’s Magic3D can generate 3D models from text | New AI aims to democratize 3D content creation, no modeling skills required. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/nvidias-magic3d-creates-3d-models-from-written-descriptions-thanks-to-ai/ 46 comments technology
- Democrats Urge Federal Agencies to Abandon Use of Facial Recognition: "Facial recognition tools pose a serious threat to the public's civil liberties and privacy rights, and Clearview AI's product is particularly dangerous," warn four progressive lawmakers. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/democrats-urge-federal-agencies-abandon-use-facial-recognition 108 comments technology
- Democrats want feds to target the 'black box' of AI bias https://www.apnews.com/03e66fbcd0404aa5a8a03fe47f99a45d 8 comments artificial
- How artificial intelligence will be used for social control - Mass surveillance and manipulation by powerful AI algorithms represent a much more imminent and tangible threat to our democratic values than killer robots. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2017/12/15/how-artificial-intelligence-will-be-used-for-social-control.html 5 comments technology
- Democratic candidate Andrew Yang Iowa interview. Finally tightens policies on M4A, expands on the Ai race against china, and why nuclear power is an absolute must that other candidates won't go to. https://www.pbs.org/video/andrew-yang-tupn2b 12 comments politics
- OpenAI is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law. https://openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai 39 comments artificial
- Democrats and Republicans coalesce around calls to regulate AI development: 'Congress has to engage' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-republicans-coalesce-around-calls-regulate-ai-development-congress-engage 17 comments machinelearningnews
- Audio Revealed of Roger Stone Calling for Assassination of Democrats - After initially denying the existence of the audio, Stone claimed it was 'AI manipulation' https://themessenger.com/politics/audio-revealed-of-roger-stone-calling-for-assassination-of-democrats 166 comments politics
- Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang advocates for $1000/mo to combat the rise of AI and the automation of the industry in a plan called the "Trickle Up Economy" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/24/andrew-yang-2020-candidate-robots-machines 3 comments politics
- ASU's groundbreaking AI tool, HLA Inception, cracks the code to cancer treatment by decoding immune complexities through MHC-1 proteins. This innovation promises personalized therapies, democratizing healthcare, and offering hope in the fight against cancer. https://www.cryptotimes.io/2024/03/30/ai-tool-revolutionizes-predicting-immune-response-to-cancer 29 comments cryptocurrency
- The US Democratic Party has begun using AI to phone voters and campaign on their behalf. The company providing the service says they expect to scale fast to thousands of calls a day. https://www.reuters.com/technology/meet-ashley-worlds-first-ai-powered-political-campaign-caller-2023-12-12/ 480 comments futurology
- Ciolacu: Le urez mult succes celor 61 de candidaţi ai Partidului Social Democrat European care vor participa mâine la turul doi al alegerilor locale din Republica Moldova https://www.g4media.ro/ciolacu-le-urez-mult-succes-celor-61-de-candidati-ai-partidului-social-democrat-european-care-vor-participa-maine-la-turul-doi-al-alegerilor-locale-din-republica-moldova.html 4 comments moldova
- Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI | A new super PAC tied to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Bill Ackman is backing Democratic challenger Dean Phillips https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/01/18/ai-tech-biden/ 47 comments politics
- Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses. Researchers say their artificial-intelligence system could help to democratize medicine. The chatbot was more accurate than certified physicians in diagnosing respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, among others. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00099-4 4 comments economy
- A Democratic campaign deploys the first synthetic AI caller | A candidate in a competitive Pennsylvania congressional race is using “Ashley,” an AI campaign volunteer, stretching the bounds of how technology shapes retail politics. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/12/democratic-campaign-ai-caller-00131180 17 comments politics
- Amnesty International reports on child labor behind smartphone batteries: A new AI report claims that cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo by child laborers is finding its way into the supply chains of global technology and car companies - a move facilitated by a Chinese firm http://www.dw.com/en/amnesty-international-reports-on-child-labor-behind-smartphone-batteries/a-18987204 3 comments worldnews