Artificial intelligence allows underserved populations to gain access to a radiologist, pointed out Anthony L. Loschner, MD, assistant professor and associate program director, Critical Care Fellowship Program, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Artificial intelligence allows underserved populations to gain access to a radiologist by just clicking a snapshot on their cell phone, said Anthony L. Loschner, MD, assistant professor and associate program director, Critical Care Fellowship Program, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, about his presentation at this year's CHEST meeting.TranscriptIntroduce us to the use of artificial intelligence in pulmonary medicine.The title of my presentation was "Artificial Intelligence in Pulmonary Medicine: The Rise of the Machines." And we reviewed the major articles that had been published in the last year or so guiding future AI in pulmonary medicine.There were some reviews that were done, literature reviews, where I reviewed articles on how AI is currently being used. Examples include great work by a Stanford team called ChestNet, and they're using a deep learning algorithm to read chest x-rays on any media pretty much.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, October 14, 2020 – Gorilla Corporation, a leader in global partner marketing and strategy, today announced the expansion of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, by including Tortora Brayda Partnership Excellence. Gorilla Corporation, with a long-standing commitment to their corporate social responsibility program, will allocate further sponsorship to the non-profit organization Tortora Brayda Partnership Excellence. Tortora Brayda focuses on engaging business, cultural, government, and thought leaders worldwide to reshape and develop collaboration and partnering practices with a view to improving and securing business and economies. "This official partnership with Gorilla Corporation is powerful for our Think Tank, Gorilla's reputation as a leader in partner marketing internationally, is relevant and strategic. Their contribution and support are pivotal for us," said Carlo Tortora Brayda, founder and chairperson of Tortora Brayda Partnership Excellence.

As artificial intelligence assumes a more central role in countless aspects of business and society, so has the need for ensuring its responsible use. AI has dramatically improved financial performance, employee experience, and product and service quality for millions of customers and citizens, but it has also inflicted harm. AI systems have offered lower credit card limits to women than men despite similar financial profiles. Digital ads have demonstrated racial bias in housing and mortgage offers. Users have tricked chatbots into making offensive and racist comments.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to greatly enhance the productivity and efficiency of global supply chains over the next decade. Transnational corporations are hailing these gains as a'game changer' for advancing environmental sustainability. Yet, looking through a political economy lens, it is clear that AI is not advancing sustainability nearly as much as industry leaders are claiming. As this article argues, the metrics and rhetoric of corporate social responsibility are exaggerating the benefits and obscuring the costs of AI. Productivity and efficiency gains in the middle sections of supply chains are rebounding into more production and consumption, doing far more to enhance the profitability of big business than the sustainability of the earth.

The United Nations today established International Youth Day over twenty years ago, recognizing that young people can be a positive force for our collective development when provided with the knowledge and opportunities they need to thrive. Today, there are 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 years, accounting for 16 percent of the global population. And by 2030--the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make up the U.N. 2030 Agenda--the number of youth is projected to have grown by 7 percent, to nearly 1.3 billion. Findings from a new study by IBM and Morning Consult[1] reveal this demographic knows technology will alter their future. Young people recognize skills like AI and data science will change their careers, and yet they feel unprepared to work with them.

Whether to give rights to artificial intelligence (AI) and robots has been a sensitive topic since the European Parliament proposed advanced robots could be granted "electronic personalities." Numerous scholars who favor or disfavor its feasibility have participated in the debate. This paper presents an experiment (N 1270) that 1) collects online users' first impressions of 11 possible rights that could be granted to autonomous electronic agents of the future and 2) examines whether debunking common misconceptions on the proposal modifies one's stance toward the issue. The results indicate that even though online users mainly disfavor AI and robot rights, they are supportive of protecting electronic agents from cruelty (i.e., favor the right against cruel treatment). Furthermore, people's perceptions became more positive when given information about rights-bearing non-human entities or myth-refuting statements.

Ethical behavior is good for business. For example, in the study "Doing Well by Doing Good: The Benevolent Halo of Corporate Social Responsibility" marketing professor Alexander Chernev concluded that acts of corporate social responsibility, even when they are unrelated to the company's core business, influence consumer perceptions of the functional performance of the company's products. The products of companies engaged in socially responsible activities are likely to be perceived as being of higher quality. The research paper "Ethics as a Risk Management Strategy" concluded that "there are compelling reasons to consider good ethical practice to be an essential part of … risk management" and that the benefits of ethical behavior include the identification of potential risks, fraud prevention, and reduced court penalties.

Checks are needed to guide the development of guard-rails for ethical and responsible community-engaged computing research. The era of "move fast and break things" can produce false starts, injured communities, and widespread techlash. The tech sector can be more socially conscious and focus on community engagement using research from universities, computing researchers, and professionals. For example, smart cities might increase efficiency and improve quality of life, but for whom?10 Research shows how smart city initiatives can harm certain groups through, for example, facial recognition technologies that misidentify, produce ethnic bias and discrimination, or create opportunities for abuse.5 Technology benefits do not always accrue evenly across community members. Ethics rarely keeps pace with technological innovation.

In late 2018, Amazon discontinued the use of their AI-based recruitment system because they found that it was biased against women. According to sources close to the matter, the tool gave low ratings to resumes with the terms "woman" or "women's" in applications for technical roles, and went as far as downgrading applicants from two all-women's colleges. This problem is not new. In 2003, the National Bureau of Economic Growth (NBER) conducted an experiment to track the presence of racial bias in hiring. In the test, they sent out two sets of fictitious resumes with identical information about education and experience.

In late 2018, Amazon discontinued the use of their AI-based recruitment system because they found that it was biased against women. According to sources close to the matter, the tool gave low ratings to resumes with the terms "woman" or "women's" in applications for technical roles, and went as far as downgrading applicants from two all-women's colleges. This problem is not new. In 2003, the National Bureau of Economic Growth (NBER) conducted an experiment to track the presence of racial bias in hiring. In the test, they sent out two sets of fictitious resumes with identical information about education and experience.