Last Week in AI #147: Failure to regulate 'killer robots', how TikTok reads your mind, the Transactions on Machine Learning Research

U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’, TikTok document offers a new level of detail about their algorithm, the new Transactions on Machine Learning Research journal, and more!

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U.N. talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’ 

This week, 125 nations that are part of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) convened to discuss a treaty to regulate the use of autonomous lethal weapon systems (LAWS), colloquially known as ‘killer robots.’ LAWS have no human-operated "kill switch" that must be used to…