2025-06-25 One-Minute Post

Snowden warns of AI surveillance threat to privacy and freedom. European Commission opens public consultation on high-risk AI systems. Senate closer to passing 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation. AI-powered hiring tools favor black and female job candidates. New study reveals bias in AI text detection tools impacting academic publishing fairness. Google faces UK pressure over AI search summary and advertising fairness. SEBI’s Consultation Paper on AI/ML Guidelines focuses on reconciling innovation with investor protection, including fairness and bias. AI is redefining leadership and decision-making in 2025, with evolving concerns about fairness and bias testing.

Articles we found interesting:

1. Snowden Warns AI Surveillance Threatens Privacy and Freedom - MediaNama link Highlight: Edward Snowden warns that AI's growing surveillance capabilities are threatening privacy and personal freedoms, reshaping our digital lives.
2. How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they're not yours link Highlight: AI chipmaker Nvidia has created a digital environment, or model, where people can upload their connected device data. This environment can help train …
3. The European Commission opens public consultation on high-risk AI systems link Highlight: Her practice covers a wide range of regulatory and policy matters at the cross-section of privacy, content moderation, artificial intelligence, and …
4. The Senate is one step closer to passing a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation link Highlight: For the past several years, states have been trying to regulate the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) industry. … AI 'anti-bias' regulations." …
5. AI-powered hiring tools favor black and female job candidates over white and male applicants: study link Highlight: This pattern emerged across both commercial and open-source models — including Gemma-3 and Mistral-24B — and persisted even when anti-bias language …
6. New study reveals bias in AI text detection tools impacts academic publishing fairness link Highlight: A study published in PeerJ Computer Science reveals significant accuracy-bias trade-offs in artificial intelligence text detection tools that …
7. Google Faces UK Pressure Over AI Search Summary, Advertising - Bloomberg.com link Highlight: The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Google's online search and advertising business, citing concerns over fairness in …
8. SEBI's Consultation Paper on AI/ML Guidelines: Reconciling Innovation with Investor Protection link Highlight: In light of increased adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and … Fairness and Bias: Market participants should implement appropriate …
9. How AI Is Redefining Leadership and Decision-Making in 2025 - Unite.AI link Highlight: As AI tools evolve, so do concerns about their fairness. … To prevent AI bias, we thoroughly test algorithms for fairness before deployment.

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