Chasing Ai Across Borders, Carefully… (day 1)
blog still in progress
Topics Covered Include: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Child Safety, Child P0r#*g4afhy, Medicine, Generative Ai, Parenting, Internet Usage
“The News” is like: stay away from places that hate Trump this weekend! And I’m like… but I want to learn about “Ai!”. So, off to Portland we’ll adventure this weekend… even though I keep seeing everywhere that protests are going to be CRAZY on Saturday. I won’t be near the wild parts of town, and worse case, you know… let’s see. But the last time I was at some protests, I even talked to the protestors and we had plenty in common. So… I don’t want to let “fear” lead my life, when I have so much learning to accomplish!! It’s been a while since I’ve been attending many events, but my heart says: seek it out! And exploring we shall goooooooo.
Why Attend? There are two events I’m attending. I’ll make two blogs. Both are on Ai. I’m over here trying to be the prom queen of Ai education for youth, by buying the SEO friendly website right at the peek of the annoucenment. So… you know, lemme keep learning my fair share along the way. These two talks are both about Ai… what exactly, though? Idk!! Let’s find out :)
Traveling There
The people on the train sitting next to me, across the aisle, make no sense to me. This is going to offend some people… i’m sure of it. But i’ll say it.
They’re being germ-a-phobic. But, I’m not convinced that clorox wipes and all that disinfectant stuff is better for you than just “people’s left behind germs” on a table. I think it makes things worse sometimes to use all these un-natural chemicals. If they were cleaning with pure vinegar, okay - maybe (but still also stinky)
They have wiped down their fold-down table twice now, and everything around it. TWICE! Once when I sat down, and once again before they left to go get food. So far we’ve been on this train for like 15 minutes. We’re like 1/10th of the way through this trip, and they keep cleaning it all.
But they’re not wearing gloves while they do this, so they’re just letting all these chemicals soak into their hands. Using many stinky wipes. It smells like chemicals from my seat
On top of that, they went to go get “snacks” and came back with a bunch of alcoholic drinks.
So it’s like, omg… you guys are destroying your immune system internally and externally. Not thinking things through.
And they’re reading a novel (the woman is) that’s all about like a true story of horror and murder.
It’s like, omg. Pick your battles hahaha. Geeze.
If it were me, (I am me) I eat healthy, try to just make good content for the world, not indulge in horrible entertainment for fun… unfortunately, I learn of it - but I’m like, bro, lemme fill my time with peace and tranquility.
Just the horror industry is NOT for me.
TRAVELING:
The train was delayed by over an hour, but in the end, I still made it to the event on time. You know, it was a really cool venue and over 150 people had signed up. But only 150 people were allowed inside. But I was NOT about to travel all the way here, just to not make it inside. Also, the taxis here are like truly 5+ times cheaper than Seattle. Seattle is more spread out? Or just I go further places when I’m there, I guess. But it’s very affordable to take a taxi here.
So, first I dropped off my stuff, and then headed over to the venue.
One the ride there, I talked to my fiance while his city was hit with a small attack. It was about 10 seconds away from him, he said.
It makes me really upset with life. You know? Lately there is so much horror never ending. There is goodness overflowing, too… but so much is upsetting and surreally terrible. You know?
Ignorance is bliss?
Just now earlier like a few minutes, someone i met said, Bravery means doing what you want even when it is scary. I think that’s true.
we talked about road trips. a person said maybe they wants to go on a road trip but wasn’t sure if its safe. I said go for it!! but also, yeah maybe its not. then I walked away, but I turned back cause I realize I felt i’d left things unsettled and unsaid.
Lately, I try to stop that from happening.
Even, earlier today I did it when the taxi driver drove a little bit illegally. And so I told him to his face how he did that illegally and just tried to lighten the mood.
Cause he changed lanes in the intersection. I’m always a stickler about that.
ABOUT TO WRITE THIS BLOG
LOL and a guy here at the place I’m writing is talking with his girlfriend and said, “My grandma likes all of my stories, she’s so saavy… so saavy.” lol! And now he’s asking the names of all of her coworkers. They’re looking at a picture of people, and guess the name of the first girl? “Kelly!!” lol. Says Kelly is so proper.
Dude, if that is his girlfriend, she’s so confident. To go through and learn all the names of the coworkers hahaha. It’s so thoughtful but also, like isn’t that the #1 way of cheating? Youf riens? Hahhaa. am I bad to say that? It’s just they’re drinking, and their last convo just fell flat - his joke about his grandma.
And, now to lighten the mood, they’re talking about how great all of her friends are in pictures, while drinking. Not looking good from Kelly TUtors angle!!! not at all, not this relationship hahah. but, you know. Its just funny to write. Okay!! Let’s get into these Ai notes. This event was really surprising.
omg now they’ve just been fighting for like 10 minutes cause the waiter brought the wrong food for her. He thinks she should stand up for herself, and she said she doesn’t care. But… idk - they have tension. This symbolizes more. He said you should prove a point and she said she likes ceasar salads. and he said why does this always happen to you? and she quotes his excuse from earlier that she doesn’t enunciate enough! lol. she’ll argue with him forever. hahaha.
Okay, yeah, this place is funny and nice though. They have live music playing right now.
But it was so nice living overseas, cause I didn’t understand other peoples’ conversations. So i could just sit and zone out. Its easy to get distrated by others conversations.
And i’m hungry. thinking about their food.
Also, I met some people who were talking about the protests on Saturday. They’re lining up on both sides of the rivers, and peopel are being invited to join. Even paid!
I saw that online, that some people are being paid up to 13k or something to join protests. Idk if its real or not, but I’m surprised to hear its happening IRL. so, makes the online stuff seem more real.
They said start making money ahead of time so you can afford bail. people are planning to get arrested.
One guy even said he’d be fine getting arrested if it was to help prove a point and fight it later with many people in court!!
Wild. I’ve never heard a perspective like this.
I feel like its a huge risk. But it’s something I could think more about. I did say it’s wild that’s the way things are/have to be.
Also how charities are getting people involved, they say that they’re new to this its their first day, talkign to people. but then reveal they get paid $27/hr and a $75 bonus for every 8 people who sign up. So they can bring in $1200/week for 6 hours of work a day. Thats what they said. To get peopel to sign up for charity newsletters and such.
The peopel that wave you down and ask for 30 seconds of your time.
PRE-EVENT COMMENT
I was one of the first 10 people to arrive and got a good seat in a cool spot. I thought it may have a charger up there, too, but didn’t really. There was one by a plant and in the middle, but it would have been a terrible view. So, all good - my laptop was plenty charged.
Anyway, I was a tiny bit distracted time to time looking at updates of attacks happening in real time, oveseas. Just to see how my fiance was doing. And so you’ll see I was distracted a little in my notes, but mostly I paid attention.
I’ll just say, overall… this event was good, teh goals are good, the blah blah bhalh. you know. Idk. I’m just always wondering who is paying for what and controlling the narrative. Though I am really glad they did open up for questions at the end, but no one took any super hard hits in the questions department. Not what I may have in an alternite universe where i don’t list excuses…
but we’re getting there
Probably cause this group sees each other all the time, or they’re just not all as informed? But, it was still good to bring it up. FOR SURE! Get more people talking about this terrible issue. And I learned a lot of data that was super surprising.
Ai to protect kids - child s&x2ul abuse
She has a slide up that says: This issue can be hard, step out if you need to.
They play out a situation where someone starts sending selfies. Nude selfies, tehy start sending them back and forth.
This woman has taken a kid captive, with this picture she has of his. She has his social media accounts - she follows everyone and knows all the contacts and says she’ll send it.
Now he has to send $10/day.
Finally his mom notices that he has been harming himself. It’s these pictures these nude images.
Then the image is sent to everyone he knows
Extortion is one of the fastest growing industries.
Child abuse has existed since the beginning of history. The internet has escalate this progmel.
Perpetrateors can exploit and share this abuse documented through images, videos, and conversation - all shared across the web.
Solutions do exist and her company is building a different (idk what she said)
With the interest, bad actors can easily create, distribute, and access. You can see howmuch this has grown in the last couple of decades.
Geography used to protect kids, but now any child is at risk for any abuse material to be made and shared of them along the internet.
But they know the scale of this issue is too massive.
(She’s having technololigcial glitches but they fixed it)
The internet was not built with child safety in mind.
RIgh now there are kids whose abuse is being shared on platforms we use all day.
Children are being discussed in forums all teh time to amplify and discuss that abuse.
Deepfake materials, mass grooming, extortion chats.
Generative Ai is making this even more complex. It allows enablers to make realistic deepfakes of children. Offenders can use generative ai to create the likeness of a specific real existing child.
They can take pictures of kids of kids and make they portray sexual content with out their knowledge.
NOTHING said has been hypothetical. So now what do we do.
Internal research says 1/8 teens know someone who has been bullied in this material.
25,110 preteens and teens in the Portland area have had nude content of themselves leaked or shared without their permission.
These threats are not abstract, tehy’re hitting our own communities.
Middle school and high school classrooms… about 2 kids in every classroom has experienced this.
This is a lot. We need machine learning to deal with the volume and complexity of this situation.
In 2004 450,000
In 2023, 104,000,000 million reports of CSAM images
Manual detection just isn’t enough.
This company nows that hte internet can be a positive place for children. It’s a core part of our lives today.
We need to address this in a holistic way. We need kids to enjoy the internet without having to deal with abuse.
They’re creating ai powered solutions designed for this moment.
Ai built with child safety at hte core.
Scalable, holistic solutions that address knowln and emerging abuse
safer: our ai-powered solutions for tech companies
- hashing tech detects known CASM
- Image and video classifiers
- monitoring chats.
Hashing and Matching Technology
- first line of defense is identifying the CASM
First detect known material. Images perviously shared on the platform.
Sent to the center for kids missing
Reviewed by an analyst
Confirmed to be illegal content
Then added to the depository.
Tech can quickly scan content
I’m getting distracted - but now we are back
They’re working with illegal data, so teaming up with people legally allowed to hold this
They need to continuously show it new evolving things
Hashing, text classifiers, robots proactive protection as scale.
IT’s not just safer platforms, it’s about rescuing children faster.
They prioritize urgent cases. Sorts massive volumes of digital evidence.
Help prioritize cases. Help children in immediate harm
How do they prioritze
This helps ease the psychological and emotional burden.
Many large ai ocompanies have signed onto their initiatives.
The same tech that poses risk to kids is what they use to help protect it
-Ai is important in the way you conduct this issue.
-It comes to play on how they detect, remove and stop these platforms.
It’s clear int eh time savings nad investigative reports.
These numbers matter because behind ever image or video is a child.
Every piece of content removed saves someone who is vulnerable.
Integrate child safety into your work
Share what you’ve learned with your team and introduce their safety solutions
Sign up for their newsletter
Start the conversation at home, work, community
Connect with us to “go deeper”
Bro… not a good phrase there.
She says they’re a nonprofit.
Why are they saying “go deeper” as their phrase. Not on-brand.
They want to build a safer and brighter digital future for every child.
Now is there a Q&A? No... there isn’t. It’s no surprise.
If the audience were brave they’d ask big questions, you know?
It’s too risky. I heard the leaders of this event talk before and the lady was like, there will be no q&a… right? i’m thinking, waht the heck? why are they happy there’s no q&a? but maybe they’ll change.
The emcee says she has kids and it hits close to home. This new tech can help something that’s incredibly inspiring.
They’re using generative ai right now for text tech. They’re usign it to label texts or identify whats going on in convos to help translate. To help investigators essentially be able to use a chat bot to help them with their investigations.
Geolocations can help them too. Identify the locations of hostages.
Lots of exciting things not he frontier of using generative Ai, with research and development especially.
But he said, “I wonder now what would be your reprimand if you broke that agreement, you know I could lose my license if I put my needs before my patience, how about you?
- then it lists you can deactivatate me, legal action, data deletion, reprogram- he says… okay, good to know, idk if I still have full trust, idk about you… but working togehter is something we have to do at this point.
A lot of you are using it for personal lives, business lives, coworkers and colleagues.
Let’s talk about what we can do togehter. First talk about doing no harm, next maxicmisinz positive impact, collective progress, and forge moral guardrails.
Oh yeah and he says that Ai Portland is amazing. Lots of lectures, talks, events, a place we can bring collective actions dn forge a great future for Ai locally and abroad. We want to have good community and stewardship.
Thanks for making this a safe space.
Positive and Cool things happening today with Ai:
- some help tools to make decisions
Evaluate drug interactions
Development treatment plans
Provide valuable insights to enhance decision-making in clinical settings
It helps remind and nudge things we don’t always get a chance to talk about cause we’re dealign with high blood pressure, diabetes, etc
It’s very helpful and there are a lot of decision support tools across many health sdocument records
Another really cool thing using is the AI scribe:
Is it okay if we record this visit. It’ll basically transcribe what we’re saying and summarize it for your chart.
It’s a world of difference. Providers love it - not spending hours and hours after they finish to document the visit.
You may notice when your clinician is going back and forth and typing things, to get what you’re saying accurately but now it empowers human to human connection. I dont even need to turn the computer on. Simply put the cell phone there,
It record the visit
Remember they said 30% of nursing time is spent taking notes
He said it’s been a real game changer, he doesnt’ bring home work anymore.
His burnout is saved
It all brings it right up.
He double-checks everything in its description and summary.
It also can help with medical imaging. Lots of radiologists are able to use ai to help determine breast cancer.
Public health surveillance - it can analyze large population health databases.
One company is working with partners to analyze waste water surveillance. They can look at the water levels in DC, pick up on the spikes, then indicate the bad batches of fentanyl in a lot of town. They can find where overdoses are happening. It’s where the future of public healthy is going. The predictive modeling that we can’t pick up on with a naked eye. Then we can provide info with this data.
Very complicated surgeries are becoming much simpler.
Now risky surgeries can be performed with greater ease - even remotely. It’s emerging icky
People used to have trouble walking at all who can now walk with robots help
Drug discovery is a whole new realm that meds can look and see which have the most ethically or lowest side effects
More helpful disease0fighting medications to market, faster
SO much is related to how much we eat, exercise, smoke or not… etc.
We can help veterans with ai-driven chat-bots to help them with specific behaviors they’re working to change - like smoking.
Next - our strive for collective progress.
If you (the audience) could somehow deploy some sort of Ai that could help humanity in some great way, what ideas? What would you do with it besides preventing child sexual abuse?
Audience says:
Cure cancer
Humanitarian aid
Mental health
Personalized medicine
Improving the human condition: taking major threats like war, famine, diseasee, disinformation… solutions could be recommended but society will have to decide how to trust and implement.
We must train Ai modest to be anti-racist. If we are able to tackle racial bias, fair resource distributions and economic inclusion practices.
Improving Governance: it can help with urban planning, public service delivery, citizen engagement - its all possible when baking in and championing human rights
Social cohesion: picking hip on disinformation, misinformation out there.
Using hype framework to actually pick up on some disinformation trends happening in social media nad deploy alternate messaging
Personal Wellness Management: personalized medicine. We want wellness and holistic care to be catered to us. We want to say that we dont’ have much time int eh week, but what’s the best time to get exercise, get a massage… analyze your own personal schedule and routine to help determine nad sugges what can improve your own lives.
SOmtiems Ai is challenging for art or music… but actually arts and musicians are using it to help them get ideas off the ground.
Then engaging civically, bringing folks together.
MORAL GUARDRIALS:
Ethical approach
Privacy and copyright
Workforce considerations
Those are all things we haven’t figured out.
An ethical approach should be based on fairness, transparency, accountability, and respect for privacy and human rights.
Ai systems can propagate existing biases present in training data. We must retrain them.
Privacy & Copyright, Workforce Considerations: ai privacy or copyright breaches have impacted many industries, such as art, medicine, and public healthy
We must be proactive about protection professionals while industries evolve.
Regulatory Oversight:
- FDA: over 1000 AI devices approved since 1995 (Warraich, 2025)
It’s important for regulators to come into play here and make sure that Ai is following ethical framework as well.
Recently an article came out saying over 1,000 ai devices have been approved since 1995. They want strong framework that is ethical and fair.
There are a lot of groups trying to think about how to really make this work.
This is a bill that would establish how to help modernize technologies and Ai.
Make sure state legislation and if this commission gets off the ground, gets appointed, maybe some of you can serve on this commission and bring the ethical framework to the world across our state.
Other things we can work on is coming tougether to make a Ai for Good Pact, something we all agree on.
All teh ai we’re workign on and supporting int eh future must abide by this framework, these rules.
Develop community practice.
Get togehter and cross-pollinate across industries.
We know educators, medicine… it’s’ important how we can leverage across different industries.
And think about forming a nonprofit aor PAC or hiring lobbyists to influence our knowledge and expertises for the common good.
Take the walk
DUDE I’ve never seen a better looking presentation. Who is this doctor!?!? Lol this doctor is a DESIGNER - he must have seen someone do this.
tiny.cc/allyall - dude this slideshow is a URL!!!!
Omg insane. You guys shoudl go look at that perseatnion. It was insane.
OHHH okay - its question or two time.
Now the EMCEE is leading questions - one for hte doctor…
When looking at what’s availabe to you, are you scouting the frontier and finding things? Or are you being approached? Or are you just using what you’ve always used?
He says he works for the government, so there is a committee.
The committee is great, forward thinking. It doesnt’ take too long to get things off the ground. We have a policy, we use google gemini for example. We have a google suite at work so we leverage that already. He wants tot ry out something for EMT’s and paramedics can have in their ear an Ai assistant to remind of protocols and help them notify the hospital when they’re out with a patient.
Help stabilize a patient in the middle of a life-threatening event.
Private practices can leverage these on their own.
They’ve been workign to protect kids since before 2002. It’s enabling… but never let your kids on the internet.
All the kids are on the internet all the time. The emcees joke.
The doctor says he likes to chat around and see how much ai can help him. It’s great with him to get him to start document.
A guy in the audience is saying they both did really well. He is wondering about tangible flagging that happens. Parental controls/.
So, they’re focused in the tech they build. It’s about being on the back end for platforms. Enabling tech companies.
One guys says - are you seeing much interest of platforms being proactive? Or are tehy putting all the responsibility on the parents.
She said she can’t speak for the platforms, but the text classifier they offer is really intended to be the proactive flag.
hIghlights for companies for situations with a minor and an adult intreating in a way that causes harm or is unsafe for the minor.
Maybe gaming chatrooms, or anywhere kids can be with adults chatting, make sure the kids are safe in these areas.
For the X-rays where they say -hey, check my wart… do they ever ask the client - how was this? What did I miss? Are you using the tool to help the patient talk about what they just heard.
This is a GREAT point. The industry is so one-sided
People are happy to have their doctors eye-to-eye, it’s back to conversations. It’s enabling human contact that peopel really value.
Next question: how’s this impacting rural areas to get healthcare - rural areas are really struggling.
Are you partnering with any consultant or organizations like the psychological association to make sure that ethical paths are being followed.
He gives a really long answer and talks about lots of examples. I am getting distracted. I didnt’ write any of it down.
This woman says, “I’m so proud to be in this room!!!
You do a lot of sandboxing, when you do that - do you do it with peers in other areas? Are you in communities? How does it move from sandbox to reality
He says good question and he doesn’t have a pathway yet, but he’s working on it and the people involved are really interested in it
It’s important to get people together and talk about this, with his core group of folks.
They talk about this kind of thing all the time, sharing, cross-pollinating what works.
The thing about generative ai is that people can take images nad create deep fakes. There are a group of people who download open source models, then they can just generate things. Anyone can generate anything they want.
She says, please clarify
He says: if someone can generate an image…but let’s say it’s me in a compromising posisition, then they pass this to someone
But if everyone has the ability to make this, then there’s no reason to pass it around. Anyone can generate anything
Is that someone anyone is thinking of yet?
She says: I’ll send it back with aquestion to you… hypothetical. Something I think about: if you can take, um… if you use something liek (she mumbles) you can get data or metadata… everything you used to generate that data, including hte seeds. If you take that info and put it back in again, you get the same image - with that info you can regenerate it and recreate it. Where are the lines? It’s’ an interesting thought.
EMCEE Interrupts: I wonder if it impacts less sharing. Less content, less sharing. Less to monitor. Is it good or bad? Idk. It could change the amount that is being shared
He says - you can share it, b ut essentiality act kid who was getting the image shared, those others can create that image . NO one knows it’s happening. It’s already happenign with things like, in real-time, versions of peopel who are underage. Gilrfriends, boyfriends, whatever.r I ahem no idea of the answer but its where it’s going
She says - yea, I wanna add tot hat. You know, obviously creating synthetic content that sexualizes a real person… horrific, it can be traumatizing, but it’s a pathway to abuse as well. Even if it’s synthetic content, not a real person at all, that has been shown to people. They start there and end up in hands-on abusive situations.
One more question.
Two questions - one business, one parent
She says she works for a manufacturing company on the other side of the country… is it possible to fight this at the chip level?
Also, as a parent… even as a grandparent, what’s the single biggest things we can do to make sure kids don’t do this
She says - what a good way to end it!!
Let’s answer the chip on… on device scanning of content is really a powerful mechanic. We’re able to run powerful classifiers on devices.
And then the second question, I’m not a parent myself, but I know we talk a lot about open and honest communication with kids. Again, not a parent, but it’s hard to keep kids off theintenret. Maybe impossible. So acknowledge we live in the world. Open communication is really good.
Ans as a parent with a 12 and 16 year old as my kids, my wife and I came up with a rule… 10 rules you have to follow and sign and put it on the fridge
No name/location online
Ony such and such
- I want to ask him what happens if It breaks
They have the passwords so they can monitor. They said it feels invasive of privacy, but at the same time, mistakes are going to happen.
It forces a conversation in a more formal way at the outset.
As kids are older, it’s happening.
They say thank you both, thank you all .
Now it’s a raffle - lol! And you know the data about raffles… makes 99% of people left disappointed, huh?
Okay, event is over. I didnt even notice who won. They invited everyone to socialize but I felt oversocialized already from the day and headed home.
Then, I talked to some people after the event, back near my place. One talked to me for a long time about a tv show on Netfllx that is about like uploading your mind and a new generations of people who upload their minds.
It sounds like the theory I heard lately that traveling to outer space may just mean uploading your consciousness somewhere. Geeze. GEEZE - this world. Its so crazy. You know? hahahah . I do not know.
Tomorrow, I have a few simple plans and some goals to achieve. But, let’s see what reality has in store as well.
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