Advent of autonomous weapons systems and meanwhile other autonomous systems that get weaponized … [+] after-the-fact. getty Those amazing dancing four-legged robots. I’m sure that you’ve seen th...
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Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient
Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it...
AI Ethics And Autonomous Systems Lessons Gleaned From That Recent Alaska Airlines Flight Where The Pilot And Co-Pilot Disagreed Prior To Taking Off And Abruptly Opted To Taxi Back To The Terminal And Go Their Separate Ways
How are we going to handle professional disagreements between a human in-the-loop and an AI … [+] autonomous system? getty Airlines have been in the news quite a bit lately. We are in the summer...
Importance Of AI Safety Being Smartly Illuminated Amid Latest Trends Showcased At Stanford AI Safety Workshop Encompassing Autonomous Systems
AI safety is gaining traction due to the abundance of unsafe AI and the gradual realization that … [+] robust verifiable safety must be paramount for AI all told. getty AI safety is vital. You w...
AI Ethics Cautiously Assessing Whether Offering AI Biases Hunting Bounties To Catch And Nab Ethically Wicked Fully Autonomous Systems Is Prudent Or Futile
Is it okay to encourage AI biases bounty hunting or are we making things worse by doing so? getty Wanted: AI bias hunters. That could be a modern-day ad that you’ll begin to see popping up on social m...
AI Ethics Starkly Questioning Human Voice Cloning Such As Those Of Your Deceased Relatives, Intended For Use In AI Autonomous Systems
Should we be devising AI voice cloning that can fully impersonate specific human voices? getty Oops, a seemingly nifty piece of new tech has gotten itself and its maker into a bit of hot water. I’m re...
AI Ethics Skeptical About Establishing So-Called Red Flag AI Laws For Calling Out Biased Algorithms In Autonomous AI Systems
Do we need Red Flag AI Laws to deal with biased AI? getty Let’s talk about Red Flag Laws. You undoubtedly know that the notion of Red Flag Laws has been widely covered in the news lately. Headlines co...
AI Ethics Confronting The Insidious One-Like-Mind Of AI Algorithmic Monoculture, Including For Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
AI algorithmic monoculture is rising due to AI pervasiveness and like-minded decision-making … [+] algorithms. getty Let’s take a look at a bit of a puzzling conundrum. It is said that great min...
AI Ethics Shocking Revelation That Training AI To Be Toxic Or Biased Might Be Beneficial, Including For Those Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Should we be willing to devise toxic AI in order to combat toxic AI? getty Here’s an old line that I’m sure you’ve heard before. It takes one to know one. You might not realize that this is an express...
AI Ethics And Legal AI Are Flustered By Deceptive Pretenses Known As AI Ethics-Washing Which Are False Claims Of Adhering To Ethical AI, Including For Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
AI Ethics washing is getting worse and worse, entailing falsehoods and deceptions about claims of … [+] abiding by AI Ethics precepts. getty Let’s explore the myriad of ways that the words “wash...
AI Ethics Alarmed At The Rise In Underhanded Juicing Or Doping Of AI Machine Learning By Trusted Insiders, Including Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Concerns are rising about juicing or doping of AI-based Machine Learning systems. getty Juicing and doping. Doping and juicing. We all know about the ongoing and surreptitious use of performance-enhan...
AI Ethics And The Perplexing Societal And Legal Role Of AI Activism, Including In The Case Of Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
AI activism is rising amid efforts to establish AI Ethics and Ethical AI. getty AI activism. Yes, there is such a thing. My formal definition is this: AI activism consists of efforts to try and shape ...
AI Ethics Unnervingly Asking Whether AI Biases Are Insidiously Hiding Societal Power Dynamics, Including For AI Self-Driving Cars
AI biases might be a harbinger of societal power dynamics, raising thorny AI Ethics issues. getty Hiding in plain sight. Have you ever heard that line before? Probably so. It can have various meanings...
Why Actor And Filmmaker Edward Norton Wants To Be TV’s Data Oracle
Edward Norton attends the red carpet during the 14th Rome Film Festival on October 18, 2019 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) Getty Images In 2014, the actor and his friend, the e...
The Key Ingredients Shaping The Future Of Food Part 2
TULARE, CA – FEBRUARY 12: A Quantix drone made by AeroVironment (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Getty Images The convergence of revolutionary technologies — chemicals, materials, life scienc...
How We Selected Our Honorees
More than 400 companies were considered for this year’s list. Finalists were selected based on their use of AI-enabled technology, business models and financials. T he Forbes AI 50 list celebrates the...
North America’s Top AI Companies Shaping The Future
This year’s inductees reflect the booming VC interest as well as the growing variability in AI-focused startups making unique uses of existing technologies, others developing their own and many simply...
AI Ethics Welcomes The Prospects Of A Standardized AI Risk Management Framework, Which Could Bolster Autonomous Self-Driving Car Efforts Too
AI Ethics welcomes the effort to craft an AI Risk Management Framework as a standard via NIST. getty We seem to be told repeatedly that taking risks is important in life. If you look at any everyday l...
Insidious AI-Based Proxy Discrimination Against Humans Is Dauntingly Vexing For AI Ethics, Which Can Occur Even In The Case Of Autonomous AI Self-Driving Cars
AI is veering into proxy discrimination which bodes for insidious and challenging times. getty Let’s discuss proxy discrimination amid the actions of modern-day Artificial Intelligence (AI). To get in...
AI Ethics Stepping Up To Guide How AI For Children Needs To Be Suitably Devised, Which Can Be Overlooked For Example In The Rapid Drive Toward Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Let’s make sure that we are careful about how AI is going to impact our children. getty It is often said that our children are our future. Another oft-repeated refrain is that Artificial Intelli...
Here’s Why AI Ethics Is Touting That Human-Centered AI Is Crucial To Our AI Symbiotic Existence, Such As The Advent Of Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
The trend toward Human-Centered AI (HCAI) is vital and here’s why. getty You might have heard or seen that the world is supposed to be focusing on Human-Centered AI (HCAI). What is it? Why do we...
The Wise, Above-Average Use Of Autonomy In Auto Manufacturing
TOYOTA CITY, 2017: Robot arms weld the bodies of fourth generation Toyota Prius cars on the … [+] production line at Toyota’s Tsutsumi Assembly Plant. (Photo credit: TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP...
Ethical AI Ambitiously Hoping To Have AI Learn Ethical Behavior By Itself, Such As The Case With AI In Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Can AI learn ethical precepts on its own? getty Aristotle famously stated that educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. You could interpret that insightful remark to sugg...
Tech-Driven Tools To Uncover Labor Exploitation
Search results related to suicides in Chinese electronics sector Globalworks Pauline Göthberg coordinates sustainable procurement for the Swedish government. Like many people passionate about ensuring...
The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down
Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...
8 tech stocks poised to bounce after Nasdaq plunge, according to AI platform
Nvidia Corp. tops a list of technology stocks that would be expected to bounce back strongly over the next month based on the reaction to past plunges by the Nasdaq Composite, according to an artifici...
How Intelligent Machines Are Reshaping Investing
getty Takeaways Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses computer algorithms to analyze and learn from data Machine learning algorithms can draw insights from data faster a...
Intel’s pain could be AMD’s gain
After a disastrous earnings report from Intel Corp. that acknowledged a big drop in data-center sales and internal mistakes, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is expected up to show off exactly the opposite...