Category: Commentary
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Why AI applications get stalled in the public sector
Why AI applications get stalled in the public sector 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…
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Ankhi Das quitting Facebook ironically symptomizes an impaired democracy
Ankhi Das quitting Facebook ironically symptomizes an impaired democracy 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…
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9 ways to put AI ethics into practice
9 ways to put AI ethics into practice This document is a curated collection of actionable propositions on building and deploying ethical AI, contributed by our affiliate network under the AI Policy Exchange Expert Vlogging Series: How to put AI ethics into practice?, for public appraisal. Edited by Raj Shekhar and Antara Vats Foreword With societal…
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Digitalization and market power
Digitalization and market power 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…
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Artificial intelligence and the future of global governance
Artificial intelligence and the future of global governance 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…
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The five AI myths to be aware of
The five AI myths to be aware of 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…
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Your brain on algorithms
Your brain on algorithms 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…
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Translating AI ethics principles into action through digital cooperation
Translating AI ethics principles into action through digital cooperation 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…
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Is no privacy the best AI privacy policy?
Is not privacy the best AI privacy policy? 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.…
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Why you should be at the center of machine learning policies, ethics & responsible development
Why you should be at the center of machine learning policies, ethics & responsible development 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,…
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