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Ethics

AI Ethics explores the potential concern with the AI revolution. Our reliance on AI will inevitably cause many ethical issues — affecting everyone, including public citizens, small businesses utilizing AI or entrepreneurs developing the latest tech.

Monthly report: September 2018

This month, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 186 influencers like Gerd Leonhard and Joanna J Bryson, discussing hashtags such as #AI , #AIethics and #artificialintelligence.
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@ylecun shared
On Sep 21, 2018
RT @GuillaumeLample: We just received the best paper award at #emnlp2018 for our work on unsupervised machine translation !! @alex_conneau @LudovicDenoyer Paper: https://t.co/B9lnhw0T4H Code: https://t.co/db7QlysCRH Blog: https://t.co/BAMuARBmEc https://t.co/YYEoqWtGXO
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Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Automatic language translation is important to Facebook as a way to allow the billions of people who use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language. To do this well, curren…

@ylecun shared
On Sep 21, 2018
RT @GuillaumeLample: We just received the best paper award at #emnlp2018 for our work on unsupervised machine translation !! @alex_conneau @LudovicDenoyer Paper: https://t.co/B9lnhw0T4H Code: https://t.co/db7QlysCRH Blog: https://t.co/BAMuARBmEc https://t.co/YYEoqWtGXO
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Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Unsupervised machine translation: A novel approach to provide fast, accurate translations for more languages

Automatic language translation is important to Facebook as a way to allow the billions of people who use our services to connect and communicate in their preferred language. To do this ...

@EleHrwch shared
On Sep 2, 2018
RT @robmccargow: “Governing #AI: An Inside Look at the Quest to Regulate Artificial Intelligence” by @FLIxrisk https://t.co/120231uLyv
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@EleHrwch shared
On Sep 2, 2018
RT @robmccargow: “Governing #AI: An Inside Look at the Quest to Regulate Artificial Intelligence” by @FLIxrisk https://t.co/120231uLyv
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@techreview shared
On Sep 3, 2018
Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars https://t.co/ENITGlltCz
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Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars

Want to dance like a professional ballerina or strut like a rapper? A new machine-learning technique can transfer one person’s motion to another in a simple process.

@techreview shared
On Sep 3, 2018
Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars https://t.co/ENITGlltCz
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Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars

Easy-to-make videos can show you dancing like the stars

Want to dance like a professional ballerina or strut like a rapper? A new machine-learning technique can transfer one person’s motion to another in a simple process.

@NoelSharkey shared
On Sep 6, 2018
Bonnie Docherty on the Marten’s clause and the dictates of the public conscience. "these weapons could not truly understand the value of an individual life,,, Their algorithms would translate human lives into numerical values" @BanKillerRobots @icracnet https://t.co/ZnuRhnEcii
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Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake

The U.S. military is already testing a Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System. Such weaponry should be off limits

@NoelSharkey shared
On Sep 6, 2018
Bonnie Docherty on the Marten’s clause and the dictates of the public conscience. "these weapons could not truly understand the value of an individual life,,, Their algorithms would translate human lives into numerical values" @BanKillerRobots @icracnet https://t.co/ZnuRhnEcii
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Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake

Why “killer robots” should be banned: Fundamental moral and legal principles are at stake

The U.S. military is already testing a Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System. Such weaponry should be off limits

@nikitaljohnson shared
On Sep 27, 2018
Business schools bridge the #artificialintelligence skills gap https://t.co/n4jFZUZXK6 https://t.co/SDvQ5AU2di
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Business schools bridge the artificial intelligence skills gap

A new course aims to pair tech knowledge with business savvy

@nikitaljohnson shared
On Sep 27, 2018
Business schools bridge the #artificialintelligence skills gap https://t.co/n4jFZUZXK6 https://t.co/SDvQ5AU2di
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Business schools bridge the artificial intelligence skills gap

Business schools bridge the artificial intelligence skills gap

A new course aims to pair tech knowledge with business savvy

@erikbryn shared
On Sep 8, 2018
RT @cccalum: The US government is starting to think about spending serious money on AI, with a $2bn appropriation for DARPA. Still smallish beer by Chinese standards, but a start. https://t.co/d4HxVSf4xW
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The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry

Officials say they want computers to be capable of explaining their decisions to military commanders

@erikbryn shared
On Sep 8, 2018
RT @cccalum: The US government is starting to think about spending serious money on AI, with a $2bn appropriation for DARPA. Still smallish beer by Chinese standards, but a start. https://t.co/d4HxVSf4xW
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The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry

The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry

Officials say they want computers to be capable of explaining their decisions to military commanders

@gleonhard shared
On Sep 27, 2018
“Inequality. How do we distribute the wealth created by machines?” https://t.co/A0wOmNj3LD via @Instapaper
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Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence

The robot revolution is gaining pace, but is it running in line with our values? Here are some of the main ethical issues keeping the AI experts up at night.

@gleonhard shared
On Sep 27, 2018
“Inequality. How do we distribute the wealth created by machines?” https://t.co/A0wOmNj3LD via @Instapaper
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Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence

Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence

The robot revolution is gaining pace, but is it running in line with our values? Here are some of the main ethical issues keeping the AI experts up at night.

@IBMWatson shared
On Sep 20, 2018
"Trust is one of the most important things preventing #AI at scale in production environments." – Ritika Gunnar, VP of Watson AI via @ZDNet: https://t.co/nZQcRx9d74
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IBM launches tools to detect AI fairness, bias and open sources some code

Bias detection and black box transparency is limiting AI deployments at scale, argues IBM.

@IBMWatson shared
On Sep 20, 2018
"Trust is one of the most important things preventing #AI at scale in production environments." – Ritika Gunnar, VP of Watson AI via @ZDNet: https://t.co/nZQcRx9d74
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IBM launches tools to detect AI fairness, bias and open sources some code

IBM launches tools to detect AI fairness, bias and open sources some code

Bias detection and black box transparency is limiting AI deployments at scale, argues IBM.

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Humanist/Futurist, Author, Future Explainer/Designer, Global Keynote Speaker see https://t.co/1TvAn2nTF7 New book: https://t.co/99XuSFoZvD CEO @FuturesAgency

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Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Cognition, Culture, & Society; AI Ethics, Safety, & Policy. Vaguely professional tweets—for more: @j2blather; fewer: @j2breve

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Policy Analyst at OpenAI. Formerly: AI Policy Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. Views my own.

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co-founder https://t.co/ZvDGNlehRt + professor @usfca_msds | past: Duke math PhD, quant, early Uber eng | now: making neural nets uncool

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equality, transparency, fun Emeritus Professor of AI and Robotics, co-director @resprobotics, Chair of ICRAC, Head Judge on Robot Wars

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Bringing together experts in #DeepLearning #AI #MachineIntelligence to solve challenges in industry & society. Founder @teamrework https://t.co/3TOTolxO30

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Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture.

Follow 5.2k Followers

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Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Ethics and Law; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster; #LawTech in Practice and Education; Views My Own: #urobotwm

Follow 2.4k Followers

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Follow 103.1k Followers

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Director of #AI @PwC_UK | #ResponsibleAI #AIforGood @PwC | Advisor @APPG_AI @IEEESA @techUK | @TEDx Speaker | Fellow @theRSAorg | #HeForShe | views my own

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Director of Research @reformthinktank London Hub Lead @oht_uk &member of @women_in_ai @goodgym runner #PublicSector #tech #healthtech #AI #TaxEvasion & stuff

Follow 738.0 Followers

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Our mission is to make technology a greater force for good by bringing about better-informed, more conscious technology decisions through our journalism.

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Writing and giving talks on the impact of #AI on people, economies and societies. Free book available at https://t.co/UNyK5mkL7u

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Professor

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News from the MIT Media Lab

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Watson is #AI for professionals, designed for your business. Follows the IBM Social Computing Guidelines.

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Examining the social implications of AI @ainowinstitute Co-director, NYU Research Scientist, Google Open Research founder, certified yoga instructor.

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Founder & CEO DeepMind - developers of #AlphaGo, #AlphaZero & Atari DQN. Working on General AI. Trying to understand what is *really* going on in the universe

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Author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Waking Up, and other bestselling books published in over 20 languages. Host of the Waking Up podcast.

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OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. We're hiring: https://t.co/XxM7UoAwz9

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