Top news of the week: 22.03.2020.

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Ethics

On Mar 16, 2020
@nikitaljohnson shared
It was hard to choose... but here are our Top Women in AI 2020 - Texas Edition! https://t.co/7IBJO7Wfod #reworkAI https://t.co/rd0dho5JOn
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Top Women in AI 2020 - Texas Edition

Top Women in AI 2020 - Texas Edition

We're back with the last instalment of our Women in AI lists & the first list of 2020 which focusses on Texas!

On Mar 21, 2020
@cccalum shared
Axon, which saves lives by supplying tasers and other equipment to security services, has poached a senior AI exec from Amazon. Congratulations to @MikeWagers and the team. https://t.co/32woR0hfhA
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Axon Announces New SVP of Artificial Intelligence

Axon Announces New SVP of Artificial Intelligence

Axon, the global leader in connected public safety technologies, announced the addition of Yasser Ibrahim as Axon's SVP of AI, effective March 9, 2020.

On Mar 15, 2020
@cccalum shared
The virus should accelerate the use of AI to promote distance learning. https://t.co/UsSlaRhBW5
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The Real Threat to Business Schools from Artificial Intelligence

The Real Threat to Business Schools from Artificial Intelligence

As COVID 19 spreads worldwide, how will b-schools remain relevant in the age of AI? Anne Trumbore, senior director of Wharton Online, offers her views.

On Mar 19, 2020
@AdaLovelaceInst shared
Dame Shirley Pearce, Committee on Standards in Public Life puts @AdaLovelaceInst among key orgas to follow in the UK #AIEthics debate, reminding of the importance of upholding high standards of conduct in tech-assisted decision making in the public sector: https://t.co/ogOdUu8N8G
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AI in the UK: The Story So Far

AI in the UK: The Story So Far

The Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) is an independent advisory non-departmental public body that advises the Prime Minister on ethical standards across the whole of public life ...

On Mar 20, 2020
@RobMcCargow shared
85% of organisations are using #AI in deployed applications | via @TechRepublic https://t.co/dOdpvVrw9Y
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85% of organizations are using AI in deployed applications

85% of organizations are using AI in deployed applications

More than half of businesses are now in the mature phase of AI adoption, indicating significant growth within the past year alone, O'Reilly found.

On Mar 20, 2020
@aiethicslab shared
"While #AI is an astonishing asset for the responsible development of our societies, it also gives rise to major ethical issues. [..] Can freedom of action be guaranteed when our desires are anticipated and guided?" @UNESCO #AIethics https://t.co/I1Htjvzhy6
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Towards an Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Towards an Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

AI could open up tremendous opportunities for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Its applications ...

On Mar 15, 2020
@DataJusticeLab shared
RT @PopuliBot: Nation-states, anxious about missing the #AI bullet train, are hurrying to build national AI capabilities. But in this mad scramble for AI-led development, we cannot lose sight of global algorithmic justice, writes @ITforChange's Anita Gurumurthy. https://t.co/9OBeZW3lcY https://t.co/NyslsEGU09
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A New AI-Led World Order Needs to Rewrite the Rules of Data Capitalism

A New AI-Led World Order Needs to Rewrite the Rules of Data Capitalism

AI generates ideal types of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, based on many signifiers – scores, ranks, ratings, predictive models – all of which lend meaning to what is of value in the new …

On Mar 15, 2020
@PKathrani shared
Should I Worry About... the philosophy behind AI? https://t.co/IbFLxUTlJF via @cgtnofficial @JohnAFlood @David_Gunkel @EmergTechEthics @PabloRedux @sd_marlow
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Should I Worry About... the philosophy behind AI?

Should I Worry About... the philosophy behind AI?

In the late 1940s, pioneering computer genius Alan Turing proposed that a computer can be said to possess artificial intelligence if it can fool a human into thinking it is real by ...