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Can we get some laws, please?

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There are competing notions of fairness — and sometimes they’re totally incompatible with each other.

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It highlights the problem of AI bias — and the need to change incentives in the industry.

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AI’s Islamophobia problem
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GPT-3 is a smart and poetic AI. It also says terrible things about Muslims.

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IBM’s new AI system could also help design treatments for Covid-19.

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Researchers at the CDC and Georgia Tech are using a whole lot of data, including social media, to forecast the suicide rate, a statistic that can lag by up to two years.

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Security researchers found an unsettling vulnerability in Tesla’s intelligent cruise control.

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Recode chatted with Sen. Jeff Merkley about everything from his iPhone to China’s treatment of the Uighurs.

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A computer can make a decision faster. That doesn’t make it fair.

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Is your college using facial recognition on you? Check this scorecard.Is your college using facial recognition on you? Check this scorecard.
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Here’s a quick way to tell if your university may be using the controversial technology.

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Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral
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AI religion is upon us. Welcome to the future.

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AI can now outperform doctors at detecting breast cancer. Here’s why it won’t replace them.AI can now outperform doctors at detecting breast cancer. Here’s why it won’t replace them.
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Google has developed an impressive new algorithm for analyzing X-rays.

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Don’t want to read privacy policies? This AI tool will do it for you.Don’t want to read privacy policies? This AI tool will do it for you.
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If you take a minute to teach this AI, it’ll teach you something in turn.

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Facial recognition tech is a problem. Here’s how the Democratic candidates plan to tackle it.Facial recognition tech is a problem. Here’s how the Democratic candidates plan to tackle it.
Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy

Bernie Sanders has taken a more radical stance than Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Julián Castro — and everyone else.

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You can try out OpenAI’s controversial language AI for yourself.

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Attempts to “fix” biased AI can actually harm black, gay, and transgender people.

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The AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”The AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”
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Three researchers helped take deep learning mainstream — and transformed the world.

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