AI in COVID-19 Fight: Pope Issues Ethical Challenge; Voice Studied to Help in Detection - AI Trends

The worldwide fight against COVID-19 continues to challenge AI experts. The Pope issued a challenge for AI experts to develop an "ethical algorithm" that would ensure fairness; Some new AI research shows how people are feeling about the virus. Other researchers are experimenting with the use of sound to detect the virus. Shortly before the Vatican closed due to the virus, members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which researches bioethics and Catholic moral theology, worked on getting a commitment from AI developers to write an "ethical" algorithm in each AI system, according to an account in SSPX.news, the communication agency of the Society of St. Pius, based in Paris. "Following the example of electricity, AI is not necessary to perform a specific action, it is rather intended to change the way, the mode with which we carry out our daily actions," stated Fr.