Jess Whittlestone at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and her colleagues published a comment piece in Nature Machine Intelligence this week arguing that if artificial intelligence is going to help in a crisis, we need a new, faster way…
The debate on contact-tracing highlights the urgency of tackling unregulated technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). With a strong democracy and reputation for first-class research, Switzerland has the potential to be at the forefront of shaping ethical AI. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?…
Conscious consumers demand fair-trade when it comes to products like coffee, and when it’s quality coffee, they are even willing to pay more for it. When it comes to our technology products though, many consumers don’t even know that “fair-trade” is possible. Behind…
The positive effects that AI has on everyday life are well documented However, as this technology becomes more wide-spread, ethical questions are being raised over the influence that this has in society. In extreme cases you can look at the controls and…
Richard Pilling considers the ethical responsibilities of delivering Machine Learning solutions and suggests that the immense possibilities opened up by ML should always be tempered with an understanding of potential consequences. I was lucky to grow up in the 80s as the…
Artificial intelligence has influenced every aspect of our daily lives. Nowadays,thousands of tech companies have developed state-of-the-art AI-powered cybersecurity defense solutions specifically designed and programmed by ethical hackers and penetration testers. The Artificial Intelligence used in such solutions helps prevent cyberattacks from…
I have been a data analytics professional for the past twelve years. Throughout my career, I have seen a steady spike in the use of data across the industry, be it engineering, education, healthcare or financial services. It was in 2017 when…
If you want to understand how people are thinking (and feeling) about new technologies, it’s important to understand how media outlets are thinking (and writing) about new technologies. A recent analysis of how journalists have dealt with the ethics of artificial intelligence…
The authors of the article “Contributions from the Catholic Church to ethical reflections in the digital era” are experts from the Pontifical Academy for Life. The article was published in the latest issue of ‘Nature Machine Intelligence’, the Nature Research journal that…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are digital technologies that will have significant impact on the development of humanity in the near future. They have raised fundamental questions about what we should do with these systems, what the systems themselves should do, what…
