AI With An Ethic: European Experts Release Draft Guidelines

In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo, Watrix employees demonstrate their firm's gait recognition software at their company's offices in Beijing. A Chinese technology startup hopes to begin selling software that recognizes people by their body shape and how they walk, enabling identification when faces are hidden from cameras. By hook or by crook, Europe needs to differentiate itself, in its approach to artificial intelligence, from mighty competitors such as the U.S. and China. To be fair, competitors might not be the right word given that, for the time being at least, there's no real competition. According to some of the latest data available, AI investment in Europe totaled $3 to $4 billion in 2016, compared with $8 to $12 billion in Asia and $15 to $23 billion in North America.