Cécile Maréchal @mareccl

🆕Scientific recommendation on how to strengthen the #OneHealth approach is out! The advice recommends reinforcing preventive actions, surveillance & risk assessments of One Health threats. Read more: 🔗europa.eu/!JjwqgM

Last Monday the European Health Security Committee held an important meeting on #Mpox. Research is key to understand & fight the virus. #EUfunded projects @EuropeVeo & @EDCTP3 GREAT-LIFE released a genomic sequencing of the Monkeypox virus. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/yc83svhd

EU One Health @EU_Health

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Important Health Security Committee meeting this morning on #Mpox clade 1. Exchanged latest info & discussed next steps with @ECDC_EU, @EMA_News, @WHO & @AfricaCDC. Commission monitoring situation v. closely and supporting coordinated EU response. #HealthUnion

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🚨 BREAKING: The World Intellectual Property Organization – @WIPO publishes the "Patent Landscape Report on Generative AI," and it's a MUST-READ for everyone in AI. Below are the [impressive] key findings: "➵ 54,000 GenAI-related inventions (patent families) were filed and more than 75,000 scientific publications published between 2014 and 2023. ➵ The growth is rapid, with the number of GenAI patents increasing eightfold since the 2017 introduction of the deep neural network architecture behind the Large Language Models that have become synonymous with GenAI. ➵ In 2023 alone over 25% of all GenAI patents globally were published, and over 45% of all GenAI scientific papers were published. ➵ GenAI patents still currently only represent 6% of all AI patents globally. ➵ The top 10 GenAI patent applicants are: Tencent (2,074 inventions), Ping An Insurance (1,564 inventions), Baidu (1,234 inventions), Chinese Academy of Sciences (607), IBM (601), Alibaba Group (571), Samsung Electronics (468), Alphabet (443), ByteDance (418), Microsoft (377). ➵ The top five inventor locations are China (38,210 inventions), US (6,276 inventions), Republic of Korea (4,155 inventions), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350). ➵ Image and video data dominate GenAI patents (17,996 inventions), followed by text (13,494 inventions) and speech/music (13,480 inventions). GenAI patents using molecule, gene and protein-based data are growing rapidly (1,494 inventions since 2014) with 78% average annual growth over the past five years. ➵ GenAI patents span across a diverse range of sectors, including in life sciences (5,346 inventions), document management and publishing (4,976 inventions) and over 2,000 inventions in each of business solutions, industry and manufacturing, transportation, security, and telecommunications. ➵ In the future, GenAI can help design new molecules, expediting drug development. It can automate tasks in document management and publishing, be increasingly used in retail assistance systems and customer service chatbots and enable new product design and optimization, including in public transportation systems and autonomous driving." - ➡ A very interesting report - don't miss it (link below). ➡ To stay up to date with the latest developments in AI policy & regulation, join 27,500 who subscribe to my weekly newsletter (link below).

➡ Relevant links - check them out: ➵ FTC article: The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust": ftc.gov/business-guida… ➵ My podcast episode with Prof. Ryan Calo: youtu.be/7aAeU7wX1mw ➵ Ryan Calo & Daniella DiPaola's article "Socio-Digital Vulnerability": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… ➵ Subscribe to my newsletter and never miss my insights: luizasnewsletter.com ➵ To learn more, I invite you to join my 4-week AI Bootcamps at the AI, Tech & Privacy Academy; check them out: aitechprivacy.com

🚨 BREAKING: A former Snap engineer has just launched Butterflies, a social network "where humans and AI coexist." It might be legally challenged, here's why: ➡ First, as I've discussed multiple times in my newsletter, I'm uncomfortable with business models centered on AI anthropomorphism (such as Replika or Character AI), as there is a fine line between talking with an anthropomorphized chatbot and being manipulated by it. Why? ➡ When we look at them through a data protection lens, they are basically massive data collection machines processing highly sensitive personal data under the fake cover of "AI friend." The whole marketing and "fun" is hiding this raw aspect and pretending that there is a real friend. This is deceptive, especially given that children, teenagers, and vulnerable people will be interacting with them. ➡ The @FTC seems to follow the same line. In a recent post authored by FTC attorney Michael Atleson called "The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust," he wrote: "People should know if an AI product’s response is steering them to a particular website, service provider, or product because of a commercial relationship. And, certainly, people should know if they’re communicating with a real person or a machine." ➡ It's unclear to me how a business model built on the idea of maximum anthropomorphism and mixing people and AI can comply with the FTC's transparency requirement. From my perspective, it's not compliant. ➡ Also, article 50 of the EU AI Act establishes: "1. Providers shall ensure that AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons are designed and developed in such a way that the natural persons concerned are informed that they are interacting with an AI system, unless this is obvious from the point of view of a natural person who is reasonably well-informed, observant and circumspect, taking into account the circumstances and the context of use.(...)" ➡ In a social network whose goal is to blur the line between AI and people, it's unclear to me how they will comply with this transparency obligation. ➡ Last year, I discussed the topic with Prof. @rcalo in a podcast episode. He, together with @danielladipaola, wrote an excellent paper about the topic: "Socio-Digital Vulnerability." (All links below) ➡ My personal take is that humans are extremely vulnerable in anthropomorphized interactions with machines. Given recent tragic stories involving "AI companions," I would go as far as to say that our brains are not biologically ready for this type of hyper-anthropomorphized and hyper-personalized human-machine interaction, which can rapidly get extremely manipulative and harmful. ➡ As the "Age of AI" advances and new AI-powered products are launched, we must make sure that human well-being, autonomy, agency, and dignity are at the center. ➡ To learn more: subscribe to my newsletter and join my Bootcamps.

The @EU_Commission's #EthicsGroup_EU new Statement on combating authoritarian populism and reinforcing democratic practices. It urges the research community to integrate democracy into funding considerations. 🔗 Read more here: europa.eu/!3wxBtG

How can we foster Justice in a Global World? National ethics bodies will discuss this issue at the 33rd National Ethics Councils Forum: 🗓️ 16 - 17 May 🔗europa.eu/!nTKJj8 #NationalEthicsCouncilsEU #NECForumEU

The weather of 2050 is looking insane! For ALL the kids in your lives and future generations, there is still time to #ActNow and change the forecast. @UNDP, @WMO and @weatherchannel are bringing #WeatherKids climate to a channel near you: weatherkids.org

Our Europe is a voluntary union of nations, communities, and millions of people of very different backgrounds, a union of values. And this is the real European strength. Together, we must continue to enhance this strength by protecting life and common values on our continent. We must do everything we can to ensure that our children inherit our entire Europe – a peaceful, united Europe, a Europe that people really want to live in and that neither Hitler nor Putin can break... They are able to steal years of peace from Europe, but not our common destiny – the destiny of those who defeat evil, protect life, and value peace. 🇺🇦🇪🇺

C’est non seulement insultant mais d’une immense bêtise! Barnavi est l’une des voix de la paix qui comptent en Israël. Hostile à Netanyahou, à l’occupation en Cisjordanie, grand intellectuel de la gauche israélienne… c’est ne rien comprendre à ce qui se passe la bas!

Richard De Wulf @Richard_dwlf

2 years ago

Occupation de l'ULB par des étudiants pro-palestiniens. Ils exigent l'annulation de la venue d'Elie Barnavi le 3 juin prochain. L'historien et ancien ambassadeur répond: "C'est insultant et tragique". C'est notre dossier dans "les visiteurs du soir" à 21H @LesNews24 @Jimnjmn

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But what blew me away was the level of personal anguish among the experts who have dedicated their lives to climate research. Many used words like hopeless, broken, infuriated, scared, overwhelmed. Read their words here: 5/n theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Read the news story here: World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target - Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of IPCC scientists finds 4/n theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The key question was how high they thought global temperature will rise by 2100. Almost 80% of the respondents said at least 2.5C. Almost half said at least 3C. That is a catastrophic level of heating. Just 6% thought 1.5C would be achieved. 3/n

First things first: I approached every contactable senior author of IPCC reports since 2018, 843 in total. I got 383 survey responses - a very strong response rate. 2/n

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

“Make no mistake – a full-scale assault on Rafah would be a human catastrophe.” – @antonioguterres says an assault on the southern Gaza city would be a strategic mistake, a political calamity, and a humanitarian nightmare. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

After more than 1,100 Israelis were killed in the Hamas terror attacks of 7 October, after more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, haven’t we seen enough? Haven’t civilians suffered enough death & destruction? The international community has a shared responsibility to promote a humanitarian ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages, and a massive surge in life-saving aid.

Il a signé la postface de « l’histoire de l’autre », où des historiens israéliens et palestiniens racontent l’histoire de leur point de vue (chez @EditionsLevi , lianalevi.fr/catalogue/hist…). S’opposer à sa venue à l’ULB est une profonde stupidité.

Eli Barnavi est une des grandes voix de la paix entre Israéliens et Palestiniens. Il est farouchement opposé à Netanyahou et à son gouvernement à qui il attribue une bonne part de la responsabilité de la puissance du Hamas (1/2)

Iran: UN experts alarmed by death sentence imposed on rapper and songwriter, Toomaj Salehi ohchr.org/en/press-relea…