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Is it possible to train new AI with existing AI models?
AI is one of the most efficient technical advancements of the digital age, but could engineers revolutionize AI by using an existing model to train others. Read more…
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Best of MWC 2023: IoT, healthtech, data privacy and ethics
Standout topics at MWC 2023: IoT devices and sensors, healthtech, data ownership, privacy and AI ethics. (Also, VR glasses are hotter than smartphones.) Read more…
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Ethical brands and supply chains are emerging as key to consumer choice
Ethical brands are emerging, and quickly. Surveys are showing that consumers will support brands that are sustainable and ethical. Read more…
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Stop using AI tools for criminal justice apps, warn experts
AI experts have strongly advised halting the use of risk assessment tools for criminal justice apps because the technology isn’t good enough yet. Read more…
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Ethics and AI driven buzzwords. Try common sense
Ethics seems to be the new fashionable thing. There is ethics in AI, which we believe is a lost cause. If bad people want to use it, they will. Read more…
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AI ethics is all well and good – but pretty much impossible
Ethics committees are like innovation committees. They are doomed to failure because they are committees. Read more…
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Deepfake porn and other ways AI can ruin your life
Awful people are using AI tools to create deepfake porn videos to humiliate women. Who (or what) is going to stop them? Read more…
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Digital avatars, fake news and why the ethics discussion can’t wait til later
Digital Domain CEO Daniel Seah joked onstage that digital avatar technology could make fake news really fake. But somehow that joke isn’t funny anymore. We need to talk about why. At the RISE conference in Read more…
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AI ethics should put informed principles over populist fearmongering
Google’s declaration of principles for AI is a short but carefully worded text covering the main issues related to the uses of its technology. It is worth reading the document, given that it raises many Read more…
Off the Wire
IMDA kicks off initiatives to explore AI ethics and governance
Singapore’s IMDA says it is engaging key stakeholders including government, industry, consumers and academia to collaboratively shape the government’s plans for an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem In order to drive awareness of the benefits and Read more…
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We’re not asking the right questions about AI ethics
Recently I was watching a discussion about the ethical questions of AI – in other words, how to guarantee AI is more good than bad to human beings and societies. Nowadays many discussions are easily Read more…
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Ethics must be the driver and the goal of AI innovation
The following is an abridged version of Aimee van Wynsberghe’s talk on “Ethics as a driver for innovation in robotics & AI” at last week’s AI for Good Global Summit. Van Wynsberghe is co-founder and co-director Read more…
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Hey telcos: in the shadows of DataGate, boring is the new cool
Telcos have spent the last few years trying to become cool. In many cases, they have been pretty successful. Once the ‘OMG OMG’ reaction to the rise of the OTT players had settled, they started Read more…
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Could the Next Big Thing be ethics-based services?
One reason telcos struggle to leverage user data as quickly as digital players is the time it takes to clear services with internal Ethics Committees. Post-Facebook, it seems they were on to something. Two years Read more…
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Businesses must adopt a code of ethics for disruptive technologies
Rapid digital technological advances are penetrating every sector and forcing firms of every size to think about the potentially far reaching implications of these powerful new tools on jobs, privacy, security, and the way we Read more…
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Serious question: how do robots feel about sex with humans?
The technology fields of AI and robotics have become advanced enough that it’s finally time to have “that talk” that many of us dread but nevertheless must have at some point go through with. Yes: we Read more…