Top news of the week: 23.12.2021.
Ethics
Artificial Intelligence and Galileo’s Telescope
A new book raises the question of whether we should adapt to artificial intelligence or AI should adapt to us.
New research reveals the most pressing opportunities and barriers to trustworthy innovation in data and AI
The CDEI has published the second edition of its AI Barometer, alongside the results of a major survey of UK businesses.
3 predictions for the future of responsible technology
Based on the work of the Forum's Responsible Use of Technology project here are 3 future trends to look out for in the ethical use of technology.
Press release: Better Images of AI launches a free stock image library of more realistic images of artificial intelligence
Non-profit collaboration starts to make and distribute more accurate and inclusive visual representations of AI Follows research showing that current popular images of AI using themes like ...
Co-Designing Checklists to Understand Organizational Challenges and Opportunities around Fairness in AI
Research summary contributed by Anne Boily. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, in which she specialized in the ethics of artificial intelligence. [ Original paper by Michael A. Madaio…
Characters for good, created by artificial intelligence
MIT Media Lab researchers offer positive use cases of AI-generated synthetic characters for education and well-being. A new paper provides an open-source, easy-to-use pipeline that combines ...
Transparency lawsuit against secret EU surveillance research: MEP Patrick Breyer achieves partial success in court
The Court of Justice of the European Union today published a landmark ruling of major significance for EU-funded "security research" (Case T-158/19).[1] Under the "iBorderCtrl" project, the ...
Left of Beep: The United States Needs an Algorithmic Warfare Group
“We look like assholes with that roach up on there,” the Army sergeant said, revealing his bloodshot eyes as he tilted his augmented-reality rig back on