Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match This New York Times article presents yet another dangerous example of bias in AI development and deployment, and the harmful consequences pf unregulated use of such systems for policing. Please click on this link to read the full article.
Research Article: The illusion of moral decline
Research Article: The illusion of moral decline In the Nature article by Adam Mastroianni and Daniel Gilbert, the authors argue the held global belief that moral values are in a consistent decline for the past 70 years. They write: Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining1,2. In a series of studies using […]
AI “Godfather” Yoshua Bengio Feels “Lost” over Life’s Work
AI “Godfather” Yoshua Bengio Feels “Lost” over Life’s Work Zoe Kleinman of BBC News talks to Prof. Yoshua Bengio (ACM Turing Prize Laureate and renowned for his work on Deep learning and Artificial Neural Networks) on his concerns about AI development. To read the full article, please click on this link. Image credit: rawpixel.com on […]
Why Generative AI is more dangerous than you think
Why Generative AI is more dangerous than you think A lot has been written about the dangers of generative AI in recent months and yet everything I’ve seen boils down to three simple arguments, none of which reflects the biggest risk I see headed our way. Before I get into this hidden danger of generative AI, it […]
AI Cannot Read Your Mind
AI Cannot Read Your Mind Authors: Visar Berisha and Pavan Turaga (Arizona State University) Can AI read your mind? That is the question on many minds these days. A recent study to be published at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023 has been cited in popular media as evidence […]
A bioethicist and a professor of medicine on regulating AI in healthcare
Published in The Economist. this article presents valuable insights into regulating AI in healthcare, in conversation with Effy Vayena and Andrew Morris. To read the full article, please click on this link.
President Biden’s remarks about Privacy, AI, Transparency and Bias in the 2023 State of the Union
Marc Rotenburg, Founder at Center of AI and Digital Policy, has written a LinkedIn post on President Biden’s remarks about privacy, AI, Transparency, and Bias. Please click on this link to see his post.
AI and Ethics: New Special Issue is Out!
The new Special Issue on Governance and AI: Challenges for a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem has been published in Springer’s AI and Ethics journal. The special issue was jointly guest edited by Eva Thélisson, Kshitij Sharma, and Himanshu Verma. The preface of the Special Issue was written by Jan Kleijssen, Director of Information Society and Action […]
AI Ethics for Law Enforcement: A Study into Requirements for Responsible Use of AI at Dutch Police
By Lexo Zardiashvili, Jordi Bieger, Francien Dechesne and Virginia Dignum his article analyses the findings of empirical research to identify possible consequences of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for and by the police in the Netherlands, and ethical dimensions involved. We list the morally salient requirements the police need to adhere to for ensuring the responsible […]
The ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence
The last few months have been a tumultuous ride for those of us concerned about ensuring our fundamental rights are protected as the EU develops its artificial intelligence (AI) policy. While EU Commission Vice Presidents Vestager and Jourová recently committed to “proactively” combating the threat of AI systems reinforcing structural discrimination, other developments have been […]