We hope you are all enjoying the run up to Christmas 2018! Here we have a selection of writing on perennial AI ethical themes — how priorities shape the impacts of organisations, the shrinking zone of social privacy, and how AI interacts with the law.

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Jan 7, 2019

The Importance of attention, Loneliness, and Clever Plants

Lots of ethical news to chew over this week, including the big announcement of the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence. Check it out here — an impressive effort.

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Jan 7, 2019

Dating with Alexa, Predictive Policing, and ‘Material Intelligence’

This week we look at a mix of interesting pieces — news that Alexa and Google Home may one day turn to relationship advice, and that the British police are seeking to use ‘predictive policing’. We also look at how…

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Dec 13, 2018

Superbad? Facial Recognition in High Schools and Policing

This issue is about surveillance and and the importance of responsible implementation. As surveillance systems proliferate in our schools, governments, cities and homes, we must interrogate why and how these are being rolled out…

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Dec 10, 2018

Power Meets Surveillance: the Rise of Digital Tyranny?

From the ‘trust demolition’ of Google taking over DeepMind’s healthcare app — trained as it was on NHS data — to the hard nosed corporate tactics we found out were used by Facebook against negative press, this has been another…

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Dec 10, 2018

Synthetic Content, Trust, and Common Sense

Last week saw the announcement of the world’s first AI news anchor. Released by China’s Xinhua news service, this artificial reporter highlights one of the most interesting and alarming ways in which AI stands to alter the world — the creation of…

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Dec 10, 2018

Who Should a Driverless Car Save in a Crash?

Research by MIT, published in the journal Nature, found that respondents were most…