Joy Buolamwini is a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League – an organisation that aims to challenge the biases in decision-making software. She grew up in Mississippi, gained a Rhodes scholarship, and she is also a Fulbright fellow, an Astronaut scholar and a Google Anita Borg scholar. Earlier this year she won a $50,000 scholarship funded by the makers of the film Hidden Figures for her work fighting coded discrimination. How did you become interested in that area? When I was a computer science undergraduate I was working on social robotics – the robots use computer vision to detect the humans they socialise with.

Fighting your way through crowded aisles of shoppers can be a stressful experience, but Amazon is launching a service that could soon make this a thing of the past. AmazonFresh Pickup lets consumers order their groceries online and will have them ready to pick up in as little as 15 minutes. And to make the experience even less hassle, crew members from the retail firm will deliver the items directly to your car. The firm has just opened up two kiosks in Seattle with plans to expand the service if trials go well. Amazon has launched a Fresh Pickup service that will have your online grocery order ready to in collect in as little as 15 minutes.

With soft, nimble fingers, an arm stretches out to delicately pluck an apple from a shelf and place it gently into a basket. In this special series, Future Now takes a close look at the biggest, most important issues we face in the 21st Century. For two months, we'll bring you insight from leading scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and influencers to help you make sense of the challenges we face in today's rapidly evolving world. It performs the task again with a bag of limes and again with a pepper, never tiring, never complaining. This is a prototype robotic arm being tested by Ocado, the British online supermarket.

Goldstaub, aged 31, is the co-founder of CognitionX, which aims to bring clarity to the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence (AI). "We're like a Ghostbusters hotline," she says. "When you feel lost and wonder who you're going to call we have researchers who can answer big questions. AI will be the next industrial revolution, it's happening quicker than anything we have ever seen. This month's NHS hack is just the latest reminder of how fast technology is developing and Goldstaub says it illustrates the need for widespread education and "collaboration beyond the tech sector, with government, academia and business talking about moving forwards with new tools". Sitting in an eye-poppingly pink chair at her company's HQ at the Wayra incubator in Piccadilly, where she has a staff of 22 and is "expanding at a rate of knots", Goldstaub explains how AI has the potential to detect cancer earlier than humans can, trade stocks, increase energy efficiency, predict human rights trials and make fairer decisions in courts. Already, 76 per cent of companies use some form of AI and it could add $814 billion to the UK economy by 2035, increasing productivity by up to 40 per cent, according to a report by Accenture. So we'd better get it right. Goldstaub compares AI to a child, learning from what it hears. "If you train AI based on racist, sexist information, you can't be surprised that it becomes racist and sexist." She cites the example of the chatbot Tay, which was trained on Twitter and in less than 24 hours was making offensive remarks. "You'll have AI making decisions about whether you can get loans, about car insurance.

At some point in the not-distant future, a patient is going to blame someone--perhaps a physician, maybe even a radiologist--for an injurious care decision made, recommended or otherwise nudged by artificial intelligence (AI). Who will be slapped with the suit? Taking up the riddle, a Quartz writer points out that the undiscoverable algorithmic rationale that usually drives AI's decision-making--its "black box"--will make it hard to pin down a human. "Even if it were possible for a technically literate doctor to inspect the process, many AI algorithms are unavailable for review, as they are treated as protected proprietary information," explains the writer, Robert Hart. "Further still, the data used to train the algorithms is often similarly protected or otherwise publicly unavailable for privacy reasons. This will likely be complicated further as doctors come to rely on AI more and more and it becomes less common to challenge an algorithm's result."

Objectives: Discussions of fairness in criminal justice risk assessments typically lack conceptual precision. Rhetoric too often substitutes for careful analysis. In this paper, we seek to clarify the tradeoffs between different kinds of fairness and between fairness and accuracy. Methods: We draw on the existing literatures in criminology, computer science and statistics to provide an integrated examination of fairness and accuracy in criminal justice risk assessments. We also provide an empirical illustration using data from arraignments. Results: We show that there are at least six kinds of fairness, some of which are incompatible with one another and with accuracy. Conclusions: Except in trivial cases, it is impossible to maximize accuracy and fairness at the same time, and impossible simultaneously to satisfy all kinds of fairness. In practice, a major complication is different base rates across different legally protected groups. There is a need to consider challenging tradeoffs.

Qualcomm was ordered to pay BlackBerry $815 million in an arbitration settlement last April. BlackBerry announced today that the two companies have reached a final agreement amount of $940 miillion, which includes the original arbitration amount along with interst and attorneys' fees. The release says that Qualcomm will pay the full amount before the end of May. It brought in $286 million in revenue last quarter, making this $940 million settlement a much needed infusion of cash to can help the beleaguered company pivot towards self-driving cars.

SEE ALSO: Drones are smuggling so much contraband into prisons that the UK created a'squad' Turgeon had used a drone, which he says he later returned, to record video of Native American-led protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would run through Native American land. For this, Turgeon was arrested and charged with felony and misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment as well as a misdemeanor count of physical obstruction of a government function, according to Motherboard. At about 33 minutes into the video below, you can see what is alleged to be Turgeon's drone flying nowhere close to a North Dakota Highway Patrol plane that is also in frame. The misdemeanor reckless endangerment charge came from allegedly flying a drone above protesters, "creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury or death."

BEIJING, May 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:GSUM), a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics, machine learning and AI solutions in China, today announced that, as a part of its strategic evolution, it has consolidated all of its artificial intelligence ("AI") activities strategically, technically and organizationally into a new division called the Gridsum Prophet. Gridsum is a first mover in China in big data intelligence. Since 2005, the Company has utilized a distributed big-data computing architecture, developed and implemented sophisticated natural language processing ("NLP"), and leveraged machine learning directed toward large enterprise clients. During that time, from serving large enterprise customers, the Company has accumulated deep domain knowledge and expertise as well as a massive amount of data that fuels its machine learning algorithms. Since this early inception, the Company has continued to stay at the forefront through focus and investment, hiring and training extraordinary engineers and architects and, importantly, playing an active and leading role in the AI academic and developer communities.

Drones have been the focus of many security initiatives, like the "sky fence" in the Channel Islands that jams pilot signals to stop drones from bringing contraband into the prison. Remotely piloted aircraft can also be a force for good, like in Africa where drones are being used to stop poaching. In the US, you may not have to register your personal drones with the FAA anymore, but you might not want to fly them where they're not allowed. New draft legislation from the Trump administration would authorize the government to track, take control of, and destroy drones that the government thinks pose a threat to specially designated areas. In addition, courts would be unable to hear lawsuits arising from such activity.