Top news of the week: 19.04.2020.

Government, Scientific method, Machine learning, History of artificial intelligence, Human, Health care

Ethics

On Apr 18, 2020
@johnchavens shared
AI researchers propose ‘bias bounties’ to put ethics principles into practice https://t.co/qXJDiHX7IM via @VentureBeat
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AI researchers propose ‘bias bounties’ to put ethics principles into practice

AI researchers propose ‘bias bounties’ to put ethics principles into practice

AI researchers from 30 organizations propose a toolkit for turning ethics principles into practice, including implementing "bias bounties" for AI.

On Apr 14, 2020
@j2bryson shared
@nicholaraihani @simon_t_powers I flamed them about this subject when it was first announced :-) No one should trust AI! https://t.co/AoBWrpD4Zv
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AI & Global Governance: No One Should Trust AI

AI & Global Governance: No One Should Trust AI

No one should trust Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is a set of system development techniques that allow machines to compute actions or knowledge from a set of data. Otherwise, …

On Apr 17, 2020
@RickKing16 shared
The Future of #AI is Female - News - Carnegie Mellon University https://t.co/fwhCru1ZLo https://t.co/MVpKxWIcLn
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The Future of AI is Female

The Future of AI is Female

Showcasing CMU's women in AI research across the career continuum

On Apr 12, 2020
@PKathrani shared
The United Kingdom’s Role In The Future Of AI via @forbes https://t.co/D4fdwMrl1A
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The United Kingdom’s Role In The Future Of AI

The United Kingdom’s Role In The Future Of AI

The UK has played an important role in the history and development of AI. What are their plans to stay at the forefront in the years ahead?

On Apr 17, 2020
@KayFButterfield shared
RT @HelenMargetts: Come work with us (well, virtually to start)! We need 2 Ethics Fellows in the Public Policy Programme https://t.co/JkewyPtzw1 @ The Alan Turing Institute @turinginst to help us advance the ethics of data science & AI for public policy & service delivery https://t.co/S4M1KsJjqo
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Public policy

Public policy

Introduction The public policy programme works alongside policy makers to explore how data-driven public service provision and policy innovation might solve long running ‘wicked’ …

On Apr 13, 2020
@mikebutcher shared
"The Whitehall source described the open accessibility of the documents as a “shocking data breach”. Palantir did not respond... Faculty’s lawyers said there had been no breach of patient or other sensitive NHS data." Ah, so that's alright then... https://t.co/yQMTRRTTNX
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UK government using confidential patient data in coronavirus response

UK government using confidential patient data in coronavirus response

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian show tech firms using information to build ‘Covid-19 datastore’

On Apr 14, 2020
@stephen_wolfram shared
Telling the story of how the Physics Project came to be: https://t.co/1QTz9Kf5ci https://t.co/vzVvtRBHUo
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How We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project

How We Got Here: The Backstory of the Wolfram Physics Project

Stephen Wolfram shares his 40-year research journey that has culminated in the Wolfram Physics Project, plus history and developments on the search for the fundamental theory of physics.

On Apr 18, 2020
@FrankPasquale shared
“Algorithmic governmentality runs the risk of increasing opacity by falsely interpreting abstraction as verity. Moreover, it exposes a technocratic shift that necessarily warrants further analysis of its potential implications” https://t.co/qtGF7WSG8c
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The Law’s New Language?

The Law’s New Language?

Anthony Casey and Anthony Niblett argue that existing legal forms will become irrelevant as machines enable the development of a new type of law: the micro-directive. [21] The …