Армія Ізраїлю заявила, що завдала ударів по військовій інфраструктурі в Сирії у відповідь на попередні обстріли Ізраїлю сирійською стороною
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Thirty-three U.S. states are suing Meta Platforms Inc., accusing it of damaging young people’s mental health through the addictive nature of their social media platforms.
The suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, California, alleges Meta knowingly installed addictive features on its social media platforms, Instagram and Facebook, and has collected data on children younger than 13, without their parents’ consent, violating federal law.
“Research has shown that young people’s use of Meta’s social media platforms is associated with depression, anxiety, insomnia, interference with education and daily life, and many other negative outcomes,” the complaint says.
The filing comes after Meta’s own research in 2021 found that the company was aware of the damage Instagram can do to teenagers, especially girls.
In Meta’s 2021 study, 13.5% of teen girls said Instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse and 17% of teen girls said it makes eating disorders worse.
Meta responded to the lawsuit by saying it has “already introduced over 30 tools to support teens and their families.”
“We’re disappointed that instead of working productively with companies across the industry to create clear, age-appropriate standards for the many apps teens use, the attorneys general have chosen this path,” the company added.
Meta is one of many social media companies facing criticism and legal action, with lawsuits also filed against ByteDance’s TikTok and Google’s YouTube.
Measures to protect children on social media exist, but they are easily circumvented, such as a federal law that bans kids under 13 from setting up accounts.
The dangers of social media for children have been highlighted by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who said the effects of social media require “immediate action to protect kids now.”
In addition to the 33 states suing, nine more state attorneys general are expected to join and file similar lawsuits.
Some information in this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.
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Phoenix, Arizona, in America’s Southwest, is the site of a Taiwanese semiconductor chip making facility. One part of President Joe Biden’s cornerstone agenda is to rely less on manufacturing from overseas and boost domestic production of chips that run everything from phones to cars. Many Taiwanese workers who moved to the U.S. to work at the facility — face the challenges of living in a new land. VOA’s Stella Hsu, Enming Liu and Elizabeth Lee have the story.
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Artificial intelligence companies and governments should allocate at least one third of their AI research and development funding to ensuring the safety and ethical use of the systems, top AI researchers said in a paper on Tuesday.
The paper, issued a week before the international AI Safety Summit in London, lists measures that governments and companies should take to address AI risks.
“Governments should also mandate that companies are legally liable for harms from their frontier AI systems that can be reasonably foreseen and prevented,” according to the paper written by three Turing Award winners, a Nobel laureate, and more than a dozen top AI academics.
Currently there are no broad-based regulations focusing on AI safety, and the first set of legislation by the European Union is yet to become law as lawmakers are yet to agree on several issues.
“Recent state of the art AI models are too powerful, and too significant, to let them develop without democratic oversight,” said Yoshua Bengio, one of the three people known as the godfather of AI.
“It [investments in AI safety] needs to happen fast, because AI is progressing much faster than the precautions taken,” he said.
Authors include Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Yao, Daniel Kahneman, Dawn Song and Yuval Noah Harari.
Since the launch of OpenAI’s generative AI models, top academics and prominent CEOs such as Elon Musk have warned about the risks on AI, including calling for a six-month pause in developing powerful AI systems.
Some companies have countered this, saying they will face high compliance costs and disproportionate liability risks.
“Companies will complain that it’s too hard to satisfy regulations — that ‘regulation stifles innovation’ — that’s ridiculous,” said British computer scientist Stuart Russell.
“There are more regulations on sandwich shops than there are on AI companies.”
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Президент Франції Емманюель Макрон прибув до Тель-Авіва, щоб висловити «повну солідарність» своєї країни з Ізраїлем, передає The Times of Israel.
За словами одного з представників Єлисейського палацу, президент Франції своїм візитом прагне не лише показати солідарність з Ізраїлем, а й зробити «максимально оперативні пропозиції», щоб запобігти ескалації, звільнити заручників, гарантувати безпеку Ізраїлю та працювати над вирішенням конфлікту за принципом «двох держав».
Макрон має зустрітися з прем’єр-міністром Ізраїлю Біньяміном Нетаньягу та президентом Ісааком Герцогом.
Крім того, очікується, що Макрон зустрінеться з родичами жертв нападів «Хамасу».
Минулого тижня Макрон заявив, що вирушить на Близький Схід, щойно з’явиться перспектива конкретних переговорів між Ізраїлем і політичним крилом ісламістського угруповання «Хамас».
Не виключено, що Макрон також поїде до Лівану та Єгипту, повідомила французька газета Le Parisien з посиланням на дипломатичні джерела.
Близько 1400 людей загинули в Ізраїлі через напади бойовиків «Хамасу» 7 жовтня і в наступні дні. Відтоді Ізраїль завдає авіаударів по Сектору Гази. Ісламісти кажуть, що кількість загиблих палестинців під час авіаударів зросла до понад 5000. Ці цифри неможливо перевірити незалежно.
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