More impressive and ambitious than its Belt and Road Initiative, China has been building a global data technology empire, one that is on track to surpass the United States and all Western powers in AI technology and other cutting-edge technological advances. It announced it…
Are you currently facing a moral dilemma but have no one to turn to? It’s your lucky day! Thanks to science, you can now get life advice from artificial intelligence – and no, I’m not talking about a Magic 8 Ball (ha ha ha)….
In the past, data teams and other jobs dealing with data, we’re still pretty much in the wild west, meaning all of it is new territory & is yet to be explored. Certain best practices have been uncovered in recent times, but…
Are you currently facing a moral dilemma but have no one to turn to? It’s your lucky day! Thanks to science, you can now get life advice from artificial intelligence – and no, I’m not talking about a Magic 8 Ball (ha ha ha)….
In 2018, when Google employees found out about their company’s involvement in Project Maven, a controversial US military effort to develop AI to analyze surveillance video, they weren’t happy. Thousands protested. “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,”…
If you’ve given any thought at all to artificial intelligence (AI) and the progress made in the field, you’re probably in one of these two camps: Camp 1: AI is the biggest possible threat to humankind and will take over and make…
In a recent interview for the Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, Sarah Alt, Director of Process Improvement & Technology Integration at Michael Best and Fellow with the Ethical AI Consortium, Inc., discusses ethical AI and what organizations of all…
AI ethics has long been a hot-button issue. For some, it’s reduced to a debate about whether AI should be making decisions traditionally reserved for humans. There are misconceptions that AI systems will quickly evolve into superhuman intelligence, or that they’ll be…
Just weeks ago, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology released a set of guidelines developed by the National Governance Committee for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence, in the area of Artificial Intelligence Ethics. The English language media have titled these guidelines either “New Generation…
We’ve all been in situations where we had to make tough ethical decisions. Why not dodge that pesky responsibility by outsourcing the choice to a machine learning algorithm? That’s the idea behind Ask Delphi, a machine-learning model from the Allen Institute for AI….
