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Overcoming Barriers to Cross-cultural Cooperation in AI Ethics and Governance

Overcoming Barriers to Cross-cultural Cooperation in AI Ethics and Governance

Achieving the global benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) will require international cooperation on many areas of governance and ethical standards, while allowing for diverse cultural perspectives and priorities.

Coronavirus in Context: Scite.ai Tracks Positive and Negative Citations for COVID-19 Literature

Coronavirus in Context: Scite.ai Tracks Positive and Negative Citations for COVID-19 Literature

Artificial-intelligence tool aims to reveal whether research findings are supported or contradicted by subsequent studies.

OpenAI's Jukebox Opens the Pandora's Box of AI-Generated Music

OpenAI's Jukebox Opens the Pandora's Box of AI-Generated Music

OpenAI released Jukebox, a state-of-the-art AI model capable of generating music with vocals in the style of various artists and genres. I highlight some of my favorite samples and discuss the legality of it all.

Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "

Edward Snowden to the Hundreds of AMLD Participants at EPFL: "Don't Stay Safe. Stay Free! "

The main points developed by Edward Snowden during his speech at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL. In the second part of his speech, the American answered questions. The main part of this interview are also reported.

Conversational AI Can Propel Social Stereotypes

Conversational AI Can Propel Social Stereotypes

As AI gets more talkative, designers need to consider the ethics of gendering not just voices, but the finer nuances of speech patterns.

AI 'outperforms' Doctors Diagnosing Breast Cancer

AI 'outperforms' Doctors Diagnosing Breast Cancer

Hospitals trial intelligent machines to improve cancer detection and results so far are promising.

Advancing AI in Health Care: It's All About Trust

Advancing AI in Health Care: It's All About Trust

Predictions a few years ago that AI would soon replace radiologists haven't come to pass. AI has a long way to go before it can become autonomous.

Google Will Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset Employees

Google Will Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset Employees

Diane Greene, the head of Google's Cloud business, is said to have told employees that it was backing away from the A.I. work with the military.

AI Equal with Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds

AI Equal with Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds

Research suggests AI able to interpret medical images using deep learning algorithm.

Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis

Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis

Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.

The Global Landscape of AI Ethics Guidelines

The Global Landscape of AI Ethics Guidelines

As AI technology develops rapidly, it is widely recognized that ethical guidelines are required for safe and fair implementation in society. But is it possible to agree on what is 'ethical AI'? A detailed analysis of 84 AI ethics reports around the world, from national and international organizations, companies and institutes, explores this question, finding a convergence around core principles but substantial divergence on practical implementation.

DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Alphabet's DeepMind unit, conqueror of Go and other games, is losing lots of money. Continued deficits could imperil investments in AI.

Artificial Intelligence Could Improve Health Care for All - Unless It Doesn't

Artificial Intelligence Could Improve Health Care for All - Unless It Doesn't

Artificial Intelligence medical tools could help democratize health care - but some worry they could also worsen inequalities.

Congress Wants to Protect You from Biased Algorithms, Deepfakes, and Other Bad AI

Congress Wants to Protect You from Biased Algorithms, Deepfakes, and Other Bad AI

Only a few legislators really know what they're talking about, but it's a start.

Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science

Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science

Whether probing the evolution of galaxies or discovering new chemical compounds, algorithms are detecting patterns no humans could have spotted.

It's Time to Start Some Serious Research into the Ethics of AI

It's Time to Start Some Serious Research into the Ethics of AI

The ethical issues swirling around artificial intelligence (AI) are under-researched, with surprisingly little serious academic investigation into AI ethics, despite the huge amount of money pouring into the field and the rampant pace at which the technology is advancing.

Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI

Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI

Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.

Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'

Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite

In public, executives wring their hands over automation's negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to automate.

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.