LearnAI: AI in the News

This is a living document of news articles about AI, including machine learning, deep learning, ethics, and regulatory policy. I’ve sifted through the noise and selected only the most essential, high quality news articles I could find.

If you would like to explore useful resources for learning about AI in general, check out this document I put together.

About the author: I’m a Computer Science M.S. and MBA student at Stanford University, organizer for the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s AI Salon program, editor for the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s Blog, and advisor for the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

General

[January 10, 2019] [Quanta Magazine] Building a Translator for Artificial Intelligence

Ethics

[January 14, 2019] [Princeton] Princeton collaboration brings new insights to the ethics of artificial intelligence

Policy & Regulation

[January 23, 2019] [Vox] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says AI can be biased. She’s right.

[January 21, 2019] [MIT Technology Review] AI is sending people to jail — and getting it wrong

[January 10, 2019] [Brookings Institute] U.S.-China relations in the age of artificial intelligence

Health

[January 7, 2019] [MobiHealthNews] ‘AI Doctor’ acts like a real doctor and collects the users’ symptoms and illness history before providing a preliminary diagnostic suggestion.

[January 7, 2019] [Nature] Identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders using deep learning

[January 2, 2019] [UCSF] Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis