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Automation Is Creeping into Journalism, but Human Reporters Don’t Have Much to Fear (Yet)
MIT Technology Review has explored the rise of automated journalism: the use of AI techniques to simplify... Read More
Fourth industrial revolution AI scepticism rife at Lords committee
Computer Weekly reports a sceptical response to claims of a fourth industrial revolution, driven by AI,... Read More
Facebook folds fake news flag
A piece in the Register addresses a recent decision by Facebook to withdraw its policy of 'flagging'... Read More
New York City’s Bold, Flawed Attempt to Make Algorithms Accountable
In an in-depth report featuring the perspectives of leading data ethics researchers, Julia Powles writes... Read More
Artificial intelligence school inspections face resistance
The BBC reports that plans to use artificial intelligence to identify failing schools have been resisted... Read More
Differentially private Bayesian learning on distributed data
A group of researchers at the University of Helsinki has published a paper at the machine learning conference... Read More
How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence?
In a multimedia article, Vox asks how smart today's AI is in the context of work and employment, with... Read More
Founder of Secretive Start-Up Magic Leap Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles
Rolling Stone reports that start-up Magic Leap has revealed a mixed reality headset that it says will... Read More
2018: The Dawn of Benevolent Intelligence
A post on Medium introduces new tech platform One Concern, which seeks to provide impactful, 'benevolent'... Read More
Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life
The Wall Street Journal has published an in-depth, multimedia report on state surveillance in the Chinese... Read More
DARPA seeking AI that learns all the time
The IEEE's Spectrum site reports that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking... Read More
Microsoft AI helping Indian farmers increase crop yields
The Hindustan Times reports that innovative AI technologies are helping small-hold farmers in India to... Read More
Carnegie Mellon’s ‘Superhuman AI’ bests leading Texas Hold’em poker pros
TechCrunch reports on a new paper detailing how a new AI technology developed by Carnegie Melon researchers... Read More
Lawyer-Bots Are Shaking Up Jobs
MIT Technology Review explains how the legal field is being transformed by the rise of AI. Studies show... Read More
AI isn’t just compromising our privacy—it can limit our choices, too
For Quartz, Mark Nitzberg, Olaf Groth, and Mark Esposito argue that the use of AI can narrow choice... Read More
China tech giants forming alliances to tap immense AIoT opportunities
An article for DigiTimes suggests that Chinese tech giants are joining forces in their bid to make major... Read More
Data will change the world, and we must get its governance right
In the Guardian, Daniel Zeichner, British MP and chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Data... Read More
Why AI is Reshaping our Conversation about GDP
In AccessAI, Raja Chatila and Virginia Dignum argue that in the age of AI, society must move beyond... Read More
There are 170,000 fewer retail jobs in 2017—and 75,000 more Amazon robots
Drawing on employment data, Quartz asks whether Amazon creates as many jobs as it cuts. They find that... Read More
Hedge Funds Are Increasingly Turning to AI—and That Might Be a Problem
The MIT Technology Review reports that hedge funds are increasingly turning to AI to provide an edge,... Read More