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Professor Marc Rotenberg: Algorithmic transparency will be a key in the AI Age
Professor Marc Rotenberg, President of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Member of AIWS Standards and Practice Committee emphasized the importance of algorithmic transparency in policy formulation in the AI Age at AIWS Conference on September 20, 2018 at Harvard University Faculty Club. [embed]https://youtu.be/a1-7nhnKv5c[/embed] “Many of the debates around the employment of AI techniques have the same focus with the debates associated with the use of computing technology and government agencies back in the 1960s and 1970s”, said Prof. Marc Rotenberg, President of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). In Prof. Rotenberg’s opinion, the core interest and the protection of privacy is not about secrecy or...
A new AI project is being launched aiming to enable the adaptability of AI
The Pentagon has planned to invest over two billion dollars in a program called “AI Next” to...
The way cancer spreads can be anticipated using AI
A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London (ICR) and the University of Edinburgh has come...
Rethink Robotics suddenly closes their business
Rethink failed a deal with a Chinese company and fell into a bad financial...
Education for Shared Societies Policy Dialogue in Lisbon, Portugal
The Education for Shared Societies (E4SS) Policy Dialogue will take place on October 16-17th 2018...
Professor Joseph Nye addressed the problem of norms for AI at AIWS Conference 2018
Professor Joseph Nye, Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers and Distinguished Service...
A wary AI’s ethics discussion is essential to ensure the future of AI and robotics
On September 20, AIWS Conference with the theme ‘AI-Government and AI Arms Races and Norms’ was...
Agreement to ban on Killer Robots has been passed by the European Parliament
The European Council recently brought out the resolution to ban killer robots. It has called on its...
Can a robot farm operate with human workers?
An emerging autonomous farm with robots tends rows of leafy green under the control of a software...
BrainNet: A system can connect three people thoughts
A group of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle has successfully connected human...
The US is aiming to make a national effort in protecting cyberspace
Under Trump administration, his advisers are in search for cybersecurity moonshot. Cyber Moonshot...
Global Governance for Information Integrity Roundtable in Riga: Addressing the information’s disruption on social media
On September 27, 2018 at Riga, a roundtable on Global Governance for Information Integrity hosted...
Professor Nazli Choucri on the subject of AI-Government at the AIWS Conference
On September 20, the AIWS Conference on the theme: AI- Government and AI Arms Races and Norms took...
Experts anticipate the threat of AI resulting in research lockdown
According to AI News, world leaders in innovation are giving warnings of potential AI catastrophea...
Quantum Hegemony? China’s Ambitions and the Challenge to U.S. Innovation Leadership
“Within the past several years, Chinese researchers have achieved a track record of consistent...
An instrument to deal with biases in AI algorithms
IBM recently released a tool called ‘Fairness 360’ which can detect biases in algorithms to...
Facebook is making an effort to suppress false news
Since the incident in 2016 election, false news has been suppressed on Facebook, while Twitter has...