Apple is the most valuable tech company in the world. So when its CEO lambasts other tech companies for “weaponizing [user data] against us with military efficiency,” people are going to take him seriously. After all, Tim Cook is the de facto leader of the tech world. Read full Article
In the spring of 2016, an artificial intelligence system called AlphaGo defeated a world champion Go player in a match at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul. In the US, this momentous news required some unpacking. Read full Article
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are increasingly powering workplace platforms and tools. The sophisticated automation tools have been widely promoted as relieving workers from tasks that are “dirty, dull, or dangerous,” unleashing them to do higher-level work and create. Read full Article
Whether it’s robots coming to take your job or AI being used in military drones, there is no shortage of horror stories about artificial intelligence. Yet for all the potential it has to do harm, AI might have just as much potential to be a force for good in the world. Read full Article
Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions. Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer. Read full Article
In statements made from Bali, shared his view on the impact of the fourth industrial revolution and how it will be felt in the lives of people, specifically regarding employment. Read full Article
RECENT decades have not been particularly good ones for those who toil on, rather than own, the means of production. Labour markets have made a slow and incomplete recovery from the trauma of the Great Recession. Read full Article
BERLIN — Armin Grunwald likes to point out he’s a philosopher, not a prophet. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t try to predict the future. Read full Article
This deal should be the result of public-private cooperation to guarantee digital inclusion; adapting social and economic policies to current digital companies; and greater commitment and responsibility by global internet platforms. Read full Article
Ethics took a hit during the 2016 election cycle. Sometimes it seems the hits just keep on coming. From Kellyanne Conway’s innovative term, “alternative facts,” to former Gen. Michael Flynn pocketing a cool half-million in cash, politics, already seemingly rooted in the mud, got dirtier. Read full Article
Today Doteveryone publishes Regulating for Responsible Technology: Capacity, Evidence and Redress. The paper outlines our vision for a new independent regulatory body that will direct digital technologies for the public good. Read full Article
Across the world, economies and societies are being fundamentally transformed by digitalisation. The pace of change is remarkable and no aspect of our lives will be untouched. We do not live in an era of changes; we are in a change of era. Read full Article
This essay is the winner of The Economist’s Open Future essay competition in the category of Open Progress, responding to the question: “Do the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks?” The winner is Frank L. Ruta, 24 years old, from America. Read full Article
On March 25, 2017, a black Cadillac with a white-domed surveillance camera attached to its trunk departed Brooklyn for New Orleans. An old GPS unit was fastened atop the roof. Inside, a microphone dangled from the ceiling. Read full Article
Data, the new, sexy buzzword formerly known as the old, unsexy buzzword has in many ways been pitched as the great equalizer. After all, we can all buy the same set of stats and figures. Data is literally a commodity. As such, there’s a temptation to commoditize all firms that use it. Read full Article
The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve? Somewhere, right now, a manager is intoning to a broke, exhausted underling that someone is willing to do the same job for less—or, that some thing is willing to do it for free. Read full Article
From countering bias in computer vision algorithms to the use of AI in military drones, companies are increasingly looking at artificial intelligence through the lens of ethics. Artificial intelligence is having a growing impact on our health, education, security, and economy. Read full Article
Swami Sivasubramanian lives in a wooded area in the Seattle suburbs that’s a favorite with opportunistic local bears. From time to time, usually on garbage night, the animals wander into Sivasubramanian’s backyard to pillage his trash. Read full Article
