AI News Index: Worried About Government Data Collection For Covid-19 Contact Tracing?

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of AI highlight the current state of adoption of AI by enterprises worldwide, the future of deep learning, and consumers' attitudes regarding Covid-19 contact tracing. Americans are less willing to trust the government with private data than most other countries. Just half of those in the U.S. say they would be willing to share more data with the government to help track and contain the Covid-19 than they would otherwise. Only France (47%) and Japan (44%) had lower rates of willingness to share. Chinese citizens are most trusting, with 91% saying they would provide more data to the government.