When it's hard (and sometimes impossible) to detect AI-generated content, what role to engineers have in using LLMs ethically? Abi and Ariel discuss current laws surrounding AI and legal actions taken against individuals and businesses whose AI systems produce bias or defamation. They also cover IBM's and Microsoft’s stances on what constitutes responsible AI, as Ariel prepares for her hackathon where responsible AI is a judging criterion.

References:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-05-16%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Montgomery.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/14/saferent-ai-tenant-screening-lawsuit

https://time.com/7012843/anil-kapoor/

https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/events-insights-news/us-state-by-state-artificial-intelligence-legislation-snapshot.html

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-our-thinking/ai-watch-global-regulatory-tracker-united-states

AI Resources for Developers:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/haxtoolkit/playbook/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN06FGW8vvE

We have all heard about the Linux kernel but what does it actually do? In this episode, Abi and Ariel dive into the basics of OSs and poke around some interesting new developments.

Resources:

• https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/operating-systems
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/kernel
• https://documentation.ubuntu.com/real-time/en/latest/explanation/schedulers/
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/memory-management-in-operating-system/
• https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/memory
• https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/faculty/wolfe/book/Readings/Reading04.htm

Have you ever spent a whole day communicating, unblocking others, setting up meetings, and planning team building events...but you were supposed to be coding? You might be doing glue work.

Abi and Ariel explore a talk given by Tanya Reilly on what glue work is and how to make it work for your career in this weeks episode.

References:

Tanya Reilly's excellent talk: https://www.noidea.dog/glue

https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/88/2/865/2235342