From data privacy to algorithmic bias and declining public trust, understanding the ethics of AI and…
Happy New Year from the team here at CognitionX!
January is often thought to be named for Janus, the Roman god of transition and change. Double faced, he gazes both upon the past and the future.
Merry Christmas to you all! We have some important ethical questions for you this week:
Can you be friends with your iPad? Should corporates lead on AI ethics? Would you let your face be scanned in order to pop to the loo?
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Technology can never exist in a vacuum. It arises in society, and impacts upon society; it is influenced by and comes to influence culture. Choices made by regulators and designers will have great impacts on citizens and consumers. One such choice is the…
