Author: AI Policy Exchange
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Why AI applications get stalled in the public sector
Article by Thomas Balbach, Senior Business Analyst, Public Sector, Sopra Steria, and Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance Candidate at KU Leuven, WWU Münster and TalTech. This article is published as part of a joint blog series on AI in Government by AI Policy Exchange and N3GZ Young Professionals Network on Digital […]
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Ankhi Das quitting Facebook ironically symptomizes an impaired democracy
Article by Raj Shekhar, Founder & Executive Director, AI Policy Exchange Recently, Ankhi Das of Facebook India resigned from the company after nine-long years of service. Earlier in August this year, The Wall Street Journal had reported her refusal to take down communally provocative statements against Muslims made by Bharatiya Janata Party’s T. Raja Singh […]
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9 ways to put AI ethics into practice
This document presents a collation of expert propositions on creating ethical AI devices & applications for public appraisal. These propositions have been sourced from our affiliate network under the AI Policy Exchange Expert Vlogging Series: How to put AI ethics into practice? Edited by Raj Shekhar and Antara Vats Foreword The many iterations of artificial […]
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Digitalization and market power
Article by Thieß Petersen, Senior Advisor, Global Economic Dynamics Project, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany and Lecturer, European University Viadrina The use of digital technologies increases market transparency for consumers and enlarges the relevant market. This strengthens their negotiating position vis-à-vis companies. However, there exists also the risk that large technology companies will develop into global monopolies […]
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Artificial intelligence and the future of global governance
Article by Jean Garcia Periche, Co-founder and Chief Government Officer, GENIA Latinoamérica; Founder, Global Neo; Fellow, Singularity University, Silicon Valley The biggest lesson we can learn from the current crisis is that our international system is ill-equipped to deal with a global emergency. This pandemic forced us to acknowledge the structural limitations of the multilateral system. […]
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The five AI myths to be aware of
Article by Anand Tamboli, tech futurist and award-winning author of “Keeping Your AI Under Control: A Pragmatic Guide to Identifying, Evaluating, and Quantifying Risks” (Apress) Technology is often over-hyped but underestimated. Artificial Intelligence couldn’t have been any different from it. There are several stories, which don’t give you the full picture. And then there are […]
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Your brain on algorithms
Article by Andrew Sears, Founder, Technovirtuism and Advisor, All Tech is Human A quote attributed to the linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf claims that “language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about.” Whorf, along with his mentor Edward Sapir, argued that a language’s structure influences its speakers’ perception and categorization of […]
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Translating AI ethics principles into action through digital cooperation
Article by Prateek Sibal, Specialist Consultant on AI at UNESCO and Lecturer in Digital Innovation and Transformation at Sciences Po, Paris As a general-purpose technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts all spheres of our lives. A recent study on the role of AI in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals shows that AI could enable the accomplishment […]
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Is no privacy the best AI privacy policy?
Article by James Brusseau, Director, Data Ethics Site, Pace University, New York “You have zero privacy anyway,” Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems scolded a concerned journalist in 1999, “Get over it.” He was wrong then. And if he said it again today, he would still be wrong. Tomorrow, though, is not so clear. Most […]
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Why you should be at the center of machine learning policies, ethics & responsible development
Article by Felipe Castro Quiles, Co-Founder and CEO, Emerging Rule and GENIA Latinoamérica By now, most humans have been impacted by artificial intelligence. Elshawi, Maher, and Sakr (2019) say, “Due to the increasing success of machine learning techniques in several application domains, they have been attracting a lot of attention from the research and business […]
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