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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Parminder,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Civil society should have worked (more) on this issue decades ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Today AI is one of the most lightning business (look at siri and alexa – the civil society is training KI models for years and they also pay for it…)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>And it not only about KI – an example: Some Companys and also LEAs make use of natual language processing software which determines whether a post or an mail should be treated in some way. All of those tools are based on wordlists or (so called) corpora which are pre-defined packages of text with sentences. Here is the mess since there are absolutely NO standards which defines how to treat a post/text.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>So at least, its about standards again.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Best, Matthias<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Governance <governance-bounces@lists.igcaucus.org> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Im Auftrag von </span></b>Suresh Ramasubramanian via Governance<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Freitag, 19. November 2021 11:22<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> parminder <parminder@itforchange.net>; governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: [Governance] How strongly captured by Big Tech is the field of AI research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In other words, civil society needs to work on its own AI, and on AI ethics, as a multi stakeholder effort. Are you aware of any such efforts? Or do you plan to launch such an effort?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>From: </span></font></b><font size=3 color=black><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Governance <governance-bounces@lists.igcaucus.org> on behalf of parminder via Governance <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Date: </span></b>Friday, 19 November 2021 at 3:20 PM<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To: </span></b>governance@lists.igcaucus.org <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject: </span></b>[Governance] How strongly captured by Big Tech is the field of AI research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><p><font size=2 face="Liberation Sans"><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif'>An excellent and eye opening article in ACM's journal on how strongly captured by Big Tech most AI research is today. There also seem not many alternatives on the horizon.</span></font><span lang=EN-IN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><font size=2 face="Liberation Sans"><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif'><a href="https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-cost-of-capture">https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-cost-of-capture</a></span></font><span lang=EN-IN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><font size=2 face="Liberation Sans"><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif'>If AI is the future, and everything AI is shaped by the Big Tech, then public interest actors of the world have something that must be addressed urgently..</span></font><span lang=EN-IN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><font size=2 face="Liberation Sans"><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif'>But many apparently are busy handing even tech governance spaces over to Big Tech, so nothing ever comes in the latter's way.</span></font><span lang=EN-IN><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Liberation Sans"><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif'>parminder </span></font><font size=2><span lang=EN-IN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div></body></html>