Tag: ethics and social issues
Search for COVID-19 Treatment Accelerating Use of AI in Healthcare
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
AI was already having an impact in healthcare before COVID-19 came along. Now the impact of AI in...
Three Big Tech Players Back Out of Facial Recognition Market
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
In the span of 72 hours, both IBM and Amazon backed out of the facial recognition business this...
Work Underway to Assess and Rate AI Model Transparency
By AI Trends Staff
We hold these truths to be self-evident: a machine learning model is only as good as the data it learns from....
AI Can Save Journalism, or AI Will Replace Journalists – Which...
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
AI can potentially save journalism, or AI is going to take over some writing and take away even...
AI Careers: Kesha Williams, Software Engineer, Continues Her Exploration
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
We recently had a chance to catch up on the career of...
Adoption Picking Up for AI in Cybersecurity; More Skilled Humans Needed...
By AI Trends Staff
AI is increasingly being put to use in the technology stacks of cybersecurity companies, but not at...
Marty the Robot Rolls out AI in the Supermarket
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
When six-foot-four inch Marty first rolled into Stop & Shop, the robot...
AI Is Watching You Work, With Mixed Results
By AI Trends Staff
Advances in AI and sensors are providing new ways to digitize manual labor, giving managers...
IEEE Initiative on Ethical Design Is Making Headway
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
A three-year effort by hundreds of engineers worldwide resulted in the publication in March of 2019 of Ethically...
AI Transparency, Fairness Get Boost with Naming of Prof. Judea Pearl...
By AI Trends Staff
Efforts to further AI transparency and fairness got a boost recently with the naming of Prof. Judea Pearl of UCLA as...