SC24 BoF and Workshop: Ethics in HPC & Ethical, Social and Policy Issues in HPC
The implications for HPC technology on society and the environment prompt us as a community to discuss and understand the impacts we are having directly and indirectly. This…
U.S. Department of Energy targets 200 GW of New Nuclear Capacity by 2050
Earlier this month the DOEs Office of Nuclear Energy released plans anticipating a significant increase in nuclear energy production capacity. More details at https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/us-sets-targets-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050.
Open Questions on how to Benefit from Computational Tools while ensuring Privacy of Genetic Data and other Sensitive Data
The case of 23andMe outlines many of the open challenges related to taking advantage of computational tools in combination with sensitive personal information such as genetic data. Read…
Ethically sourced data sets and data set curation company
While this looks a lot like a sponsored article, the content points to a good trend for data curation. Knowing this exists is important for the ethics conscious…
AI Guardrails insufficient
Microsoft: ‘Skeleton Key’ attack unlocks the worst of AI • The Register With the exploitative creation of guardrails and how quickly users can work around them, it is…
Four Steps to Ensure GenAI Safety and Ethics
Four Steps to Ensure GenAI Safety and Ethics (hpcwire.com) ContractPodAI has a good set of 4 basic principles to consider. While these do not address things like training…
OpenAI updates API Usage Policies
Until January 10, 2024 open AI used to list a variety of provisions on “disallowed” model usage which explicitly prohibited to use their APIs for example for activities…
US Executive order on AI/ML
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biden-ai-executive-order The broad implications are important for the US-based tech industry.
Samsung, as they seriously enter HPC market, decides ethics are good
Prison terms for executives for unethical behavior has caused Samsung to rethink how they do business. https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/samsung_ethics/