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Amazon extends ban indefinitely on police use of its facial-recognition technology
Council members in King County, Wash., where Amazon's Seattle headquarters is based, are considering a local ban this month. And in Virginia, where Amazon is building its second headquarters, known as HQ2, state lawmakers just enacted one of the strictest laws in the country, requiring local law enforcement to secure state legislative approval before using any facial recognition system.
Online Dating Apps Are Actually Kind of a Disaster
When it came to talking about the harmful effects of social media on kids, I used to feel like the Will Smith character in I, Robot: "Why won't anyone listen to me?" After I wrote a book about girls and social media in 2016, I got a lot of pushback from people accusing me of being a Luddite or raising a moral panic. That changed over time, once a deluge of studies sadly connected social media use in girls with rising rates of anxiety and depression, the loss of self-esteem, even suicide. Today, I don't think anyone would argue that social media is without significant dangers for children and teens. Nancy Jo Sales is the author of American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Life of Teenagers and Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno.
AI and Ethics -- Operationalising Responsible AI
Zhu, Liming, Xu, Xiwei, Lu, Qinghua, Governatori, Guido, Whittle, Jon
In the last few years, AI continues demonstrating its positive impact on society while sometimes with ethically questionable consequences. Building and maintaining public trust in AI has been identified as the key to successful and sustainable innovation. This chapter discusses the challenges related to operationalizing ethical AI principles and presents an integrated view that covers high-level ethical AI principles, the general notion of trust/trustworthiness, and product/process support in the context of responsible AI, which helps improve both trust and trustworthiness of AI for a wider set of stakeholders.
Confronting Structural Inequities in AI for Education
Madaio, Michael, Blodgett, Su Lin, Mayfield, Elijah, Dixon-Román, Ezekiel
Educational technologies, and the systems of schooling in which they are deployed, enact particular ideologies about what is important to know and how learners should learn. As artificial intelligence technologies -- in education and beyond -- have led to inequitable outcomes for marginalized communities, various approaches have been developed to evaluate and mitigate AI systems' disparate impact. However, we argue in this paper that the dominant paradigm of evaluating fairness on the basis of performance disparities in AI models is inadequate for confronting the structural inequities that educational AI systems (re)produce. We draw on a lens of structural injustice informed by critical theory and Black feminist scholarship to critically interrogate several widely-studied and widely-adopted categories of educational AI systems and demonstrate how educational AI technologies are bound up in and reproduce historical legacies of structural injustice and inequity, regardless of the parity of their models' performance. We close with alternative visions for a more equitable future for educational AI research.
Kangaroo Court: Developing Trustworthy AI
AI ethics is a sub-field of applied ethics, focusing on the ethical issues raised by the development, deployment and use of AI. Its central concern is to identify how AI can advance or raise concerns to the good life of individuals, whether in terms of quality of life, or human autonomy and freedom necessary for a democratic society. As with any powerful technology, the use of AI systems in our society raises several ethical challenges, for instance relating to their impact on people and society, decision-making capabilities, and safety. If we are increasingly going to use the assistance of or delegate decisions to AI systems, we need to make sure these systems are fair in their impact on people's lives, that they are in line with values that should not be compromised and able to act accordingly, and that suitable accountability processes can ensure this. Public anxiety over possible problems has led many nongovernment academic, corporate organizations to put forward declarations on the need to protect basic human rights in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
European AI needs strategic leadership, not overregulation – TechCrunch
The EU Commission recently proposed a new set of stringent rules to regulate AI, citing an urgent need. With the global race to regulate AI officially on, the EU published a detailed proposal on how AI should be regulated, explicitly banning some uses and defining those it considers "high-risk," planning to ban the use of AI that threatens people's rights and safety. We can all agree with the sentiment of Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission executive vice president, when she said that when it comes to "artificial intelligence, trust is a must, not a nice to have," but is regulation the most effective and efficient way to secure this reality? The takeaways from the commission are incredibly in-depth, but the ones that make the most sense to me are those that stress regulated AI should aim to increase human well-being. However, regulation should not overly constrain experimentation and development of AI systems.
4 of the worst ways to use AI
As the pandemic further accelerates our digital transformation, companies are relying even more on automation and particularly on artificial intelligence. Two-thirds of CEOs surveyed last year by a major consulting firm said they will use AI even more than before for the creation of new workforce models. Even higher numbers plan to digitize operations, customer interactions, business models, and revenue streams. This huge acceleration and shift will surely bring massive failures, leaving companies -- and in some cases even critical infrastructure -- vulnerable to loss as critical decision-making is handed off to AI. As a technologist who has built platforms and worked in the major industries that employ AI often (such as FinTech and health care), I have seen first-hand what goes wrong when some of the world's biggest companies leave their intelligence to their AI.
A Systematic Literature Review on Process-Aware Recommender Systems
Eili, Mansoureh Yari, Rezaeenour, Jalal, Sani, Mohammadreza Fani
Considering processes of a business in a recommender system is highly advantageous. Although most studies in the business process analysis domain are of descriptive and predictive nature, the feasibility of constructing a process-aware recommender system is assessed in a few works. One reason can be the lack of knowledge on process mining potential for recommendation problems. Therefore, this paper aims to identify and analyze the published studies on process-aware recommender system techniques in business process management and process mining domain. A systematic review was conducted on 33 academic articles published between 2008 and 2020 according to several aspects. In this regard, we provide a state-of-the-art review with critical details and researchers with a better perception of which path to pursue in this field. Moreover, based on a knowledge base and holistic perspective, we discuss some research gaps and open challenges in this field.
Coded Bias: The Film Everybody Needs to Watch
Coded Bias, directed by Shalini Kantayya, is a documentary in the way Artificial Intelligence trails human data with the assistance of algorithms incorporated in sophisticated Machine Learning Models. Although many of the algorithms used today were created in the 80s, we have digitalised our lives, and data, in a massive amount never so accessible in the history of humankind. Adding to that, the increase in processing power by computers and wireless exchange of information by the 5G technology means AI is probably the most powerful technology ever designed. It already has the capacity to individualised strategies to nudge behaviours desired by a third party. It is only visible to the targeted person, leaves no traces and almost unregulated with few exceptions like the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
How Artificial Intelligence (AI) will Affect In Future Marketing?
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