The New York Times has confirmed what some have long suspected: The Chinese government is using a “vast, secret system” of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to identify and track Uighurs—a Muslim minority, 1 million of whom are being held in detention camps in China’s Read full Article
Every aspect of life can be guided by artificial intelligence algorithms—from choosing what route to take for your morning commute, to deciding whom to take on a date, to complex legal and judicial matters such as predictive policing. Read full Article
The Partnership on AI said in a report published Friday that current algorithms aimed at helping police determine who should be granted bail, parole or probation, and which help judges make sentencing decisions, are potentially biased, opaque, and may not even work. Read full Article
This week, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the history and future of our species, and Fei-Fei Li, one of the pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. Read full Article
AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that make it easier for anyone to start exploring machine learning, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more. Read full Article
When Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, wrote his book The Human Use of Human Beings in 1950, vacuum tubes were still the primary electronic building blocks, and there were only a few actual computers in operation. Read full Article
The question of how to ensure that technological innovation in machine learning and artificial intelligence leads to ethically desirable—or, more minimally, ethically defensible—impacts on society has generated much public debate in recent years. Read full Article
Trustworthy AI should respect all applicable laws and regulations, as well as a series of requirements; specific assessment lists aim to help verify the application of each of the key requirements: Human agency and oversight: AI systems should enable equitable societies by supporting human agency an Read full Article
BIOLOGY IS A way of structuring matter at a molecular scale by slotting each atom into its needful place. It is a way of controlling flows of energy on every scale from that of the smallest living cell to that of the whole living planet. Read full Article
Aristotle practically invented half a dozen fields of study across philosophy. Galileo was as much a physicist as he was an engineer when he helped kick-start the scientific revolution. Da Vinci… Read full Article
Inside the inventor’s world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars — and hopefully find love along the wayBy It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of… Read full Article
When Stanford announced a new artificial intelligence institute, the university said the “designers of AI must be broadly representative of humanity” and unveiled 120 faculty and tech leaders partnering on the initiative. Read full Article
The robots may need some help from humans after all. The rise of so-called roboadvisers has been among the most significant changes to how consumers obtain financial planning advice in the past several years. Read full Article
Social media and other digital disruptions have changed the world forever. Now, like it or not, transparency is king. One outcome of this massive shift is that ethics are no longer a nice to have; rather they are something for every board and leader to grapple with. Read full Article
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.” – Henri Poincare “Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.” – John Naisbitt “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Read full Article
People have been trying to live forever for … basically forever. But cheating death has always been a particular obsession for the rich. Read full Article
There has been a 14-fold increase in the number of active AI start-ups since 2000 and with this number constantly rising, the ethical issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence need to be addressed Artificial intelligence has become a ubiquitous term in the technology sector and while ma Read full Article
Siri, Alexa, Google Home—technology that parses language is increasingly finding its way into everyday life. Boris Katz, a principal research scientist at MIT, isn’t that impressed. Over the past 40 years, Katz has made key contributions to the linguistic abilities of machines. Read full Article
New York congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that people should welcome robots taking their jobs — but not the economic system that can make it financially devastating. During a talk at SXSW, an audience member asked Ocasio-Cortez about the threat of automated labor. Read full Article
