Category: AI

Kate Crawford: Exposing AI’s True Cost

Kate Crawford: Exposing AI’s True Cost In this interview conducted by Stephanie Hare of Prof. Kate Crawford, the author of Atlas of AI, the true environmental cost of AI is put to scrutiny. “The question of the environmental cost of AI is the biggest secret in the industry right now….All along the pipeline – the […]

Challenges in evaluating AI systems

Challenges in evaluating AI systems This article authored by ANTHRO\C discusses in details the different challenges in evaluating AI systems. To read the full article, please click on this link.

How the U.N. Plans to Shape the Future of AI

How the U.N. Plans to Shape the Future of AI This article has been published on Time. Following is an excerpt from the article. As the United Nations General Assembly gathered this week in New York, the U.N. Secretary-General’s envoy on technology, Amandeep Gill, hosted an event titled Governing AI for Humanity, where participants discussed the risks […]

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI In July, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” Over the next month, they received an influx of responses […]

SambaNova unveils new AI chip to power full-stack AI platform

SambaNova unveils new AI chip to power full-stack AI platform Palo-Alto-based SambaNova Systems has unveiled a new AI chip, the SN40L, which will power its full-stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite, that helps enterprises go from chip to model — building and deploying customized generative AI models. Rodrigo Liang, cofounder and CEO of SambaNova Systems, told […]

Lessons Learned from Assessing Trustworthy AI in Practice

Lessons Learned from Assessing Trustworthy AI in Practice This article is published in Digital Society journal by several renowned researchers in the domain of Trustworthy AI. Abstract: Building artificial intelligence (AI) systems that adhere to ethical standards is a complex problem. Even though a multitude of guidelines for the design and development of such trustworthy […]

The European AI Liability Directives

The European AI Liability Directives: Critique of a Half-Hearted Approach and Lessons for the Future This article, authored by Philipp Hacker, Chair of Law and Ethics of the Digital Society @ European University Viadriana, has been recently published in Computer Law & Security Review (51). Abstract: The optimal liability framework for AI systems remains an unsolved problem across the […]

G7 Hiroshima Process on Generative Artificial Intelligence

G7 Hiroshima Process on Generative Artificial Intelligence OECD has recently published a report titled “G7 Hiroshima Process on Generative AI: Towards a G7 Common Understanding on Generative AI”. In May 2023, G7 Leaders identified topics for discussion in the Hiroshima Artificial Intelligence (AI) Process and called for an early stocktaking of opportunities and challenges related […]