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Help Send EFF to SXSW 2019 Want to see the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the annual SXSW conference and festival in 2019? Help us get there by voting for our panels in the SXSW Panel Picker ! Every year, the Internet has a chance to choose what panels will be featured at the event. We’re asking friends and fans to take a moment to vote for us. Here’s how you can help EFF: Visit the Panel Picker site and login or register for a new account. Click each of the links below. Click the “Vote up” button on the left of the page, next to the panel description. Share this blog post! Suggested tweet: Help @EFF get to SXSW! You can vote in SXSW’s Panel Picker: https://ift.tt/2OxJlS2 Here are the panels with EFF staff members—please upvote! 8-Bit Policies in a 4K World: Adapting Law to Tech Fighting Misinformation and Defending the Open Web Beyond the Surveillance Business Model: Why & How Untold AI: Is Sci-Fi Telling Us the Right Stories? With four exciting pa...

How Militaries Should Plan for AI Today we are publishing a new EFF white paper, The Cautious Path to Strategic Advantage: How Militaries Should Plan for AI . This paper analyzes the risks and implications of military AI projects in the wake of Google’s decision to discontinue AI assistance to the US military’s drone program and adopt AI ethics principles that preclude many forms of military work. The key audiences for this paper are military planners and defense contractors, who may find the objections to military uses of AI from Google’s employees and others in Silicon Valley hard to understand. Hoping to bridge the gap, we urge our key audiences to consider several guiding questions. What are the major technical and strategic risks of applying current machine learning methods in weapons systems or military command and control? What are the appropriate responses that states and militaries can adopt in response? What kinds of AI are safe for military use, and what kinds aren’t...

In the face of rising competition and mandates to improve operational efficiency, large and critical power facilities need to keep power distribution systems running safety, reliably, efficiently, and in compliance with regulations. If you’re running a facility like a hospital, data center, or industrial plant, there are a number of hidden risks that make these goals even more challenging. The trend in digitization of electrical systems is helping reveal these risks and meet operational goals. This proven technology is available today. Still, if you’re like most organizations, you’re continuing to ‘work blind’, without the deep insights that a fully digitized power distribution system can deliver. Not convinced? Let’s first take a look at those risks. Risks to safety and uptime With electrical system issues recognized as the cause of 22% of all fires , finding sources of overheating should be a priority. In hospital operating theaters, insulation faults can put lives at risk, so sp...