AI Weekly: When to ship or shelve a coronavirus solution

Apple and Google's common coronavirus contact tracing solution for smartphones has continued to attract a lot of attention and debate over the past week, and understandably so. It's an unprecedented partnership between the world's dominant smartphone operating system makers, but people are worried about privacy and the notion that tracking tools deployed in the name of coronavirus will outlive the crisis. Debate over Apple and Google's contact tracing solution seems to have opened up an old argument between people who see a tech solution for every problem and those who say tech can't solve all our problems, and can even cause new ones. These debates certainly carry over to the kind of AI being deployed right now and the important question of when a company should ship or shelve a coronavirus solution. A lot of AI solutions are being rushed out in an attempt to save lives and speed up the day when we'll return to something resembling normal life, and you've been able to read about many of these in our coverage.