VIDEO REELS – Page 11

3Apr

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Can Congress Regulate AI?

How can Congress regulate AI? Erect guardrails, ensure accountability and address monopolistic power. Takeaways: A new federal agency to regulate AI sounds helpful but could become unduly influenced by the tech industry. Instead, Congress can legislate accountability. Instead of licensing companies to release advanced AI technologies, the government could license auditors and push for companies to set up institutional review boards. The government hasn’t had great success in curbing technology monopolies, but disclosure requirements and data privacy laws could help check corporate power. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urged lawmakers to consider regulating AI during his Senate testimony on May 16, 2023. That recommendation raises the question of what comes next for Congress. The soluti...

Could AI Take Over Elections – And Undermine Democracy

3Apr

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Could AI Take Over Elections – And Undermine Democracy

How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy. Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways? Sen. Josh Hawley asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this question in a May 16, 2023, U.S. Senate hearing on artificial intelligence. Altman replied that he was indeed concerned that some people might use language models to manipulate, persuade and engage in one-on-one interactions with voters. Altman did not elaborate, but he might have had something like this scenario in mind. Imagine that soon, political technologists develop a machine called Clogger – a political campaign in a black box. Clogger relentlessly pursues just one objective: to maximize the chances that its candidate – the campaign that buys the ser...

3Apr

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Can The Governments Ban TikTok?

Should governments ban TikTok? Can they? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it. On May 17, 2023, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation banning TikTok in the state. The law imposes fines of US$10,000 per day on any app store that offers the popular Chinese-owned video social media app, and on the app maker itself if it operates in the state. Individual users are not subject to penalties. The law, which is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, 2024, is the first total ban by a U.S. state government. The company claims 200,000 users in the state of 1.1 million people. Many members of Congress have called for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned video social media app nationally. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was grilled by mem...

The Stressful Health Toll Of Gun Violence Plague Black Mothers Trapped In Unsafe Neighborhoods

3Apr

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The Stressful Health Toll Of Gun Violence Plague Black Mothers Trapped In Unsafe Neighborhoods

Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S. Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America. In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially segregated communities with high levels of gun violence. Research has suggested that living in violent and unsafe environments can result in continuous traumatic stress, a constant form of PTSD. Researchers have also linked experiences of violence and poverty to an increased risk of chronic disease such as cancer and cardiovascular, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases. We are Black women and public policy and sociology professors who study ...

Predators Online Target Children’s Webcams

4Apr

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Predators Online Target Children’s Webcams

Online predators target children’s webcams, study finds. There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation. Social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate contact with kids, and abuse occurs both online and offline. Increasingly, predators are using advances in technology to engage in technology-facilitated sexual abuse. Once having gained access to a child’s webcam, a predator can use it to record, produce and distribute child pornography. We are criminologists who study cybercrime and cybersecurity. Our current research examines the methods online predators use to compromise children’s webcams. To do this, we posed online as chi...

There Are A Variety Of Benefits To Both Body And Mind From The Ancient Practice Of Yoga

7May

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There Are A Variety Of Benefits To Both Body And Mind From The Ancient Practice Of Yoga

Yoga: Modern research shows a variety of benefits to both body and mind from the ancient practice. The popularity of yoga has grown tremendously in the past decade. More than 10% of U.S. adults have practiced yoga at some point in their lives. Yoga practitioners spend on average US$90 a month, and the yoga industry is worth more than $80 billion worldwide. Yoga is now a mainstream activity in the U.S. and is commonly portrayed as a healthy lifestyle choice. I am a behavioral scientist who researches how physical activity – and specifically yoga – can prevent and help manage chronic diseases. Many people attribute improvements in their physical and mental health to their yoga practice. But until recently, research had been sparse on the health benefits of yoga. As the body of rigorous res...

Jerry Springer Perfected The Art Of Chasing Ratings

7May

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Jerry Springer Perfected The Art Of Chasing Ratings

Jerry Springer may have perfected the art of chasing ratings, but his predecessors laid the groundwork. In a widely quoted New York Times column, the paper of record called his TV program “an electronic peepshow.” The Times’ media critic, Jack Gould, accused him of “making a commercial virtue of cheap sensationalism” and exploiting the worst in human behavior, just to get ratings. But this was not a critique about controversial talk show host Jerry Springer, who died on April 27, 2023. It was a column about an equally controversial talk show host named Joe Pyne, who pioneered an opinionated and confrontational style of program, first on radio and then on TV, where he insulted callers and argued with guests. Gould wrote the article on June 5, 1966. In other words, we’ve been here before....

Struggling With Sense Of Belonging In School

2Apr

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Struggling With Sense Of Belonging In School

Latino youth struggle with sense of belonging in school. Latino youth in middle and high school have a lower sense of belonging at school and in the community overall when compared with white peers. That is a key finding from my analysis, which is currently under review and based on surveys with students in midsize districts – one urban and one suburban – on the East Coast. I also found that being a language learner is associated with lower school belonging. To measure belonging, I analyzed a 40-question survey that included questions about belonging at school, in after-school programs and in the community. Students reported that the reasons for feeling a lack of belonging stem from negative experiences at school, few trusting adult-student relationships and little affirmation from school...

3Apr

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The Cancel Culture

Cancel culture: YouTube videos on ‘getting cancelled’ are now their own genre and have links to the past. The explosion of user-created content on platforms like YouTube, Twitch and TikTok has unsettled traditional notions of authorship. The aptly-titled video ‘Canceling,’ by cultural commentator and YouTuber ContraPoints, crystallized the cancellation video genre. (Wikipedia), CC BY-SA We can consider relationships between authors and audiences, and their roles in the creative process, by examining how some YouTubers have addressed critiques of their public commentary after they have been “cancelled.” Cancelling is a colloquial term applied to anything from discussion about an author with a critical tone to internet pile-ons or campaigns to deplatform individuals after that per...

Using Your Phone To Make Passwords A Thing Of The Past

3Apr

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Using Your Phone To Make Passwords A Thing Of The Past

What are passkeys? A cybersecurity researcher explains how you can use your phone to make passwords a thing of the past. Passwords could soon become passé. Effective passwords are cumbersome, all the more so when reinforced by two-factor authentication. But the need for authentication and secure access to websites is as great as ever. Enter passkeys. Passkeys are digital credentials stored on your phone or computer. They are analogous to physical keys. You access your passkey by signing in to your device using a personal identification number (PIN), swipe pattern or biometrics like fingerprint or face recognition. You set your online accounts to trust your phone or computer. To break into your accounts, a hacker would need to physically possess your device and have the means to sign in t...