Tag: ethics and social issues

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...

By John P. Desmond, Editor, AI Trends   SoftBank has stopped production of its humanoid robot, named Pepper, and is downsizing its robotics staff from an...

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...

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...

By AI Trends Staff  A lip-reading app from Irish startup Liopa is said to represent a breakthrough in the field of visual speech recognition (VSR), which trains...

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   A new report on responsible AI from the Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO), the company that brings you credit...

By AI Trends Staff  New laws will soon shape how companies use AI.    The five largest federal financial regulators in the US recently released a request...

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor    The European Commission on Wednesday released proposed regulations governing the use of AI, a first-of-a-kind proposed legal framework...

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Ethicists continue to churn at Google with the departure of Samy Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist known for cofounding Google Brain, who had been...

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Two Dartmouth College researchers studied the countries of origin for the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize in...