Nov 7, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
A Pentagon advisory board has published a set of guidelines on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) during warfare. In “AI Principles: Recommendations on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence by the Department of Defense,”...
Oct 31, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Gina Ciavarra is sitting in a dark room at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. It’s a reading room, a space for radiologists like her to examine X-ray and MRI scans. The monitors in front of her display grayscale images of a de-identified patient’s knee, and...
Oct 23, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Healthcare
A computer algorithm developed by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and UC Berkeley bested two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans — an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients...
Oct 17, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Business
Artificial intelligence, otherwise known as AI, gets lots of attention for its potential to reshape nearly every tech industry and, more ominously, that it could one day make many jobs obsolete. While it may seem like AI’s influence over the...
Oct 17, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Robots & Drones
For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labor, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot make for a jarring contrast. “That’s Keanu Reeves’ stunt gym,” says Tim Ellis, the chief executive and cofounder of...
Oct 10, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Government
FOR TWO years reports of mass incarceration have seeped out of the remote Chinese province of Xinjiang. Over 1m people, mainly Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, have been locked up in camps. Millions more live under a police state. American officials, fearful of...
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