Inside Google AI worker's union drive to instil company ethics

Inside Google AI worker's union drive to instil company ethics Google DeepMind's AI workers are attempting to unionise over ethical concerns around the provision of cloud and AI technologies to the US and Israeli militaries, but the company is pushing back AWS AI Symposium: TeenTech alumni call for AI literacy in schools Maggie Philbin charity urges public sector leaders to mentor and sponsor, as students demand education reform, soft-skill extracurriculars and a 'mission in AI literacy' Nationwide consolidates 19 data stores to one in the cloud Building society creates a single company-wide data platform using Microsoft cloud technology AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie's AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS's largest surgical AI deployment AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must move to full AI transformation AWS says public sector AI adoption must move to 'full transformation' as it shows advanced workflow redesign yields 68% efficiency gains at its London symposium Capita meeting self-imposed civil service pension targets 'not sufficient', says government UK government views the outsourcer's overall performance as 'unacceptable' after it reports meeting a self-imposed target IBM and NASA make Moon AI model available on Hugging Face The foundation mdel can help scientists analyse petabytes of data collected over decades Anthropic calls for 'verifiable effort' to control frontier AI After Claude Mythos circumvented guardrails in July, Anthropic now wants an industry effort to control the pace of frontier model development CW@60: Saying yes - the choices that carried me from a Commodore PET to AI Computer science offered seemingly limitless creative possibility for Garth Gibson 50 years ago - much as AI does now. But not everyone invented RAID storage along the way Healthcare regs should include continuous AI monitoring A new report provides four recommendations for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Interview: Workday's Joel Hellermark on making everyone a Leonardo Joel Hellermark, chief AI officer at Workday, argues that artificial intelligence and large language models will transform enterprise work, building company memory through agents, empowering humans and increasing their value Why AI agents cannot be trusted to secure agentic AI yet The idea of using AI agents to secure AI agents seems compelling, but in doing so, we risk unnecessarily expanding our attack surface. 'Wilfully blind' Post Office thought just a few hundred affected by Horizon errors Government department admits that the Post Office 'misunderstood the scale of Horizon scandal' Ryanair calls for government action over Nats IT failure The National Air Traffic Control System was not fully operational for over eight hours, causing major disruption to airlines and passengers CW@60: All computers are bastards Technology and power have always gone hand in hand - but there is very much a better way, says Computer Weekly's ethics editor Patch Tuesday: Microsoft updates address almost 1,000 flaws Microsoft has released another record-breaking Patch Tuesday update with almost 1,000 flaws in scope Government to force tech companies to verify age of users to protect children Phone and tablet users will be required to verify their ages with credit card or official ID under government plans to prevent under-18s viewing nude images. UK government proposes AI first responders for cyber attacks The UK government will use money set aside for defensive investments to build an agentic cyber incident response capability, ministers say UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW Barbour ABI data show UK's datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East TSB CIO leaves bank as Santander merger progresses UK bank TSB has let its IT boss go as part of its integration with Spanish banking giant Santander

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