AUTHOR: Sharon Hoffman Via Theconversation.com The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI generally refers to computers’ ability to mimic human intelligence and to learn. For example, by using machine learning, scientists are working to develop algorithms that will help them make decisions about cancer treatment.…
AUTHOR: Madhumita Murgia Via FT.com (adapted & shortened repost) On the fringes of the Indian city of Kolkata, in the dusty, crowded neighbourhood of Metiabruz, 460 young women are working at the vanguard of artificial intelligence. The women, mostly from the local Muslim community, are helping to train computer vision algorithms used in autonomous vehicles…
AUTHOR: Alison Berthet Via Openglobalrights.org It’s clear that regulation of AI must start now, but why do emerging frameworks primarily talk about ethics rather than law and human rights? Artificial intelligence. Everyone talks about it, many pretend to understand it, but how many of us truly measure its disruptive potential? Without being as alarmist as Yuval…
AUTHOR: Nick Ismail Via Information-age.com (adapted repost) AI ethics must move beyond lists of ‘principles’ says new report from the Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. AI ethics should be a universally accepted practice. AI is only as good as the data behind it, and as such, this data must be…
Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines (intro only) AUTHOR: Jonathan Shaw January -February 2019 Via Harvard Magazine On March 18, 2018, at around 10 P.M., Elaine Herzberg was wheeling her bicycle across a street in Tempe, Arizona, when she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel,…
