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We commission and publish insightful contributions from technology and policy professionals and experts in the form of 800-1500 word-long commentaries, 5-10 minute-long lightning talks, and open dialogues.
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Commentaries
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 Exchange and N3GZ Young Professionals Network on Digital Government, the…
Keep readingAnkhi 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 by Bharatiya Janata Party’s T. Raja Singh from…
Keep reading9 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 risks from unethical AI becoming more apparent, there…
Keep readingDigitalization 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 into global monopolies that…
Keep readingArtificial 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 structural limitations of the multilateral system. Moreover,…
Keep readingThe 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 full picture. And then there are many…
Keep readingYour 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 and categorization of experience.…
Keep readingTranslating 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 shows that AI could enable the accomplishment of…
Keep readingIs no 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. Tomorrow, though, is not so clear. Most AI…
Keep readingWhy 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, they have been attracting a lot of attention from the research and business communities.”…
Keep readingAn Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI
by Ivana Bartoletti, Technical Director, Privacy at Deloitte and Co-founder of Women Leading in AI The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest health crisis to have happened in a new technological and data driven era – one which can still amaze us with news of wonderful creations we can get our hands on today or that are…
Keep readingThe Luddite fallacy: Is it time to reconsider it?
by Vihang Jumle, Project Officer, TRAFFIC India, World Wildlife Fund 20 December, 1922 marked an important transition in the history of employment. As the winter mist settled on the dawn-lit streets of Brooklyn Heights in New York, the city and its many residents stood wide awake to witness the dramatic and historic end of natural…
Keep readingWhat does Transparent AI mean?
by Fenna Woudstra, affiliated with Filosofie in actie (an organization based in Arnhem, the Netherlands advising technology companies and projects on the ethical use of data) Over the last couple of years many companies, institutions, governments, and ethicists have proposed their own principles for the development of Artificial Intelligence (or AI) in an ethical way.…
Keep readingPolitical campaigns on social media subvert political autonomy of citizens
by Bailey Alexander May, a recent graduate with a BA in Social and Political Sciences from University of York, United Kingdom The conception and practice of democracies across the world are arguably becoming increasingly blurred. Why? Because the big data processing capabilities of artificial intelligence (or AI) is reshaping what it means to drive political…
Keep readingA data-driven solution to build cycle paths — Making urban mobility efficient and sustainable
In this article, Vittoria Pauri, Giulio Consiglio, and Michele Nasini from Bocconi University, Italy explain how the use of big data can help make our urban mobility planning efficient and paradigms environmentally sustainable. The global demographic trends show that every year more and more people live in urban areas. Hence, urban mobility has been a…
Keep readingHow the COVID-19 pandemic will boost digitalization
Article By Thieß Petersen, Senior Advisor, Global Economic Dynamics Project, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany and Lecturer, European University Viadrina The corona crisis has the world in its grip. The extent of the social upheavals and the long-term consequences of this pandemic are not yet foreseeable. However, there is some evidence that it will further accelerate the…
Keep readingAutomated Facial Recognition Systems and the Mosaic Theory of Privacy: The Way Forward
Arindrajit Basu of the Centre for Internet & Society (Bangalore) and Siddharth Sonkar of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (Kolkata) have co-written this blog as part of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title — Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy from data aggregation by automated…
Keep readingAutomated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS): Responding to Related Privacy Concerns
Arindrajit Basu of the Centre for Internet & Society (Bangalore) and Siddharth Sonkar of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (Kolkata) have co-written this blog as part of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title — Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy from data aggregation by automated…
Keep readingDecrypting Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS) and Delineating Related Privacy Concerns
Arindrajit Basu of the Centre for Internet & Society (Bangalore) and Siddharth Sonkar of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (Kolkata) have co-written this blog as part of their three-part blog series on AI Policy Exchange under the parent title — Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy from data aggregation by automated…
Keep readingCreating Social Impact With AI
by Ashish Srivastava, Sector Head, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Lab, Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, Bengaluru Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformational technology with the potential to arrive at solutions to the most complex problems. The use of AI in sectors such as genetic modelling and drug discovery have been reported to…
Keep readingTackling Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) — through regulation, not bans
by Setu Bandh Upadhyay, Research Fellow, The Dialogue, New Delhi Every time a video of Boston Dynamics comes out, the Internet reacts in two ways: amazed at the achievements of humanity, and simultaneously, scared of the possibility of future robot overlords. Boston Dynamics is a highly advanced American robotics company that has produced absolutely spellbinding…
Keep readingHow AI and Big Data could increase the international division of labour in the future — and partial interests might prevent this
by Thieß Petersen, Senior Advisor, Global Economic Dynamics Project, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany and Lecturer, European University Viadrina Artificial intelligence (AI), big data and other digital technologies have the potential to reduce the costs of the international division of labour in the future. The resulting merging of markets would improve the supply of goods and services…
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