Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister This article is written by Alice Taylor for Politico. Albania has become the first country in the world to have an AI minister — not a minister for AI, but a virtual minister made of pixels and code and powered by artificial intelligence. Her name is Diella, meaning sunshine […]

A playbook for crafting AI strategy

A playbook for crafting AI strategy By MIT Technology Review Insights Giddy predictions about AI, from its contributions to economic growth to the onset of mass automation, are now as frequent as the release of powerful new generative AI models. The consultancy PwC, for example, predicts that AI could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) […]

📣 Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights: The AI Act of the European Union and its implications for global technology regulation

📣 Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Rights: The AI Act of the European Union and its implications for global technology regulation Authors: Benjamin Raue; Antje von Ungern-Sternberg; Lea Katharina Kumkar; Thomas Rüfner; Joanna Bryson; Patricia García Majado; Tobias Mahler; Irina Orssich; Lea Ossmann-Magiera; Lisa Markschies; Tristan Radtke; David Restrepo Amariles; Margaret Hu; I-Ping Wang Abstract: As AI technologies rapidly reshape societies, they pose both tremendous opportunities and serious risks—especially to […]

A Lifecycle Management Approach toward Delivering Safe, Effective AI-enabled Health Care

A Lifecycle Management Approach toward Delivering Safe, Effective AI-enabled Health Care Authors: Troy Tazbaz, Director, and John Nicol, PhD, Digital Health Specialist, Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE), Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration As global interest in the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care soars, ensuring […]

📣 Study on the deployment of AI in healthcare

📣 Study on the deployment of AI in healthcare Present day healthcare systems face several complex challenges, including rising demand due to an aging population, increasing prevalence of chronic and complex conditions, rising costs, and shortages in the healthcare workforce. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to address some of these by improving operational efficiency, […]

Staff fear UK’s Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

Staff fear UK’s Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse This article is written by Zoe Kleinman and Joshua Nevett for BBC. Staff at the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan […]

📣Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology

📣Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology Authors: Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, William Agnew, Myra Cheng, Kentrell Owens, Luca Soldaini & Abeba Birhane  Abstract: An increasing number of scholars, policymakers and grassroots communities argue that artificial intelligence (AI) research—and computer-vision research in particular—has become the primary source for developing and powering mass surveillance. Yet, the pathways from computer vision to surveillance continue to be […]

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying This article was written by Molly Taft and Paresh Dave for Wired. “PEOPLE ARE OFTEN curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog postlast week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 […]

AI Energy Score Ratings

AI Energy Score Ratings This article was written by Sacha Luccioni on Hugging Face. AI models power everything from chatbots to search engines, but their energy consumption remains largely opaque. Some large models require multiple cloud GPUs to run and use large amounts of energy, whereas other models are small and can run on a […]

📣 Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed

📣 Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed Authors: Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, Giada Pistelli Abstract: This paper argues that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed. In support of this position, we build from prior scientific literature and current product marketing to delineate different AI agent levels and detail […]