The Batch: Happy New Year! Hopes for AI in 2020: Yann LeCun, Kai-Fu Lee, Anima Anandkumar, Richard Socher

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people's lives. In its current form, this data collection puts both individuals and businesses at risk. I hope that 2020 will be the year when we build the foundation for a responsible data economy. Today, users have almost no control over how data they generate are used.