We know you don't really read privacy policies. This AI can do it for you.

"I have read and understood…" has got to be one of the biggest lies people commit on a regular basis. It's the typical ending for the long-winded customer agreements or privacy policies attached to every online service, which few ever read. When humankind finds something difficult, we typically build a gizmo to do it for us -- and this case is no different. It turns out, reading lengthy fine-print is the expertise of a machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) designed by researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan. Their research began with a question, said lead researcher Hamza Harkous from EPFL.