UN Human Rights Commission Calls for Moratorium on Sale of AI Tech
By AI Trends Staff
The United National Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner this week called for a moratorium on the sale and use...
Robot Umpires Invade Baseball; AI That Makes Mistakes on Purpose Could Help
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Robot umpires are being employed in minor league baseball as an experiment, while a study of strike zones...
Gartner Hype Cycle for AI 2021 Highlights AI Orchestration, Governance
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
An update by Gartner analysts to its Hype Cycle for AI 2021 report, prepared by Gartner analysts Shubhangi Vashisth...
More AI Developers Focused on Engineering the Bias Out of AI
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
With AI systems today determining whether someone can get a job or a loan, it’s in the interest...
Content Moderation Becoming a Big Business with AI Enlisted to Help
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Content moderation is becoming a bigger business, expecting to reach a volume of $11.8 billion by 2027, according...
Unethical Use of AI Being Mainstreamed by Some Business Execs, Survey Finds
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
In a recent survey, senior business executives admitted to their sometimes unethical use of AI.
The admission of being...
AI Could Solve Partisan Gerrymandering, if Humans Can Agree on What’s Fair
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
With the 2020 US Census results having been delivered to the states, now the process begins for using...
Alphabet Workers Union Giving Structure to Activism at Google
By AI Trends Staff
In a highly unusual undertaking in the technology industry, the Alphabet Workers Union was formed by over 400 Google engineers and other...
AI World Executive Summit: Move to Control Personal Data Advancing
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
The move to help people get more control over their personal data—especially the less wealthy—which for years has...
Market for Emotion Recognition Projected to Grow as Some Question Science
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
The emotion recognition software segment is projected to grow dramatically in coming years, spelling success for companies that...