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See who made the list for Business Insider's AI 100: Edtech

See who made the list for Business Insider's AI 100: Edtech

Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI programs—and that’s not the only problem with automated decision-making

Letting the chatbot interact with the live internet will make it more useful—and more problematic, too.

As part of a wave of layoffs, the new CEO disbanded a group working to make Twitter’s algorithms more transparent and fair.

Copy Feature The State of Maine has enacted what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) describes as the strongest state facial-recognition law in the US amid growing concern over the unconstrained use of facial-recognition systems by the public and private sector. The Maine bill, LD 1585 [PDF], forbids state officials from using facial-recognition technology, or entering into agreements with third parties to do so, except under a relatively limited set of circumstances having to do with ser...

By Tegwen Green (left) and Nancy Singh (right), Office for National Statistics For the last fifteen months Nancy and I have been working with users and producers of statistics to develop a user engagement strategy for statistics. The strategy sets out a plan of action for building a more meaningful and sustained dialogue between producers, users and potential users of statistics. Its principles are widely relevant to anyone conducting analysis across different professions. We want to spread the...

Data strikes Users install privacy tools or leave platforms so that tech firms such as Google and Facebook are unable to track and store your data. Data poisoning Data poisoning involves manipulating the trained dataset. For example, AdNauseam is a browser extension that clicks on every advertisement that is popped up on your online feed which confuses Google’s ad-targeting algorithms. Conscious data contribution To register your protest against a platform you can start uploading content on i...

A few months later, she landed a job at Google. There, her mandate was to help lead a new department devoted to the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence, a field of research known as ethical AI. Artificial intelligence has become increasingly vital to Googles business, which has around 200 employees working on what it calls "responsible AI" for its own products. CEO Sundar Pichai has repeatedly doubled down on AIs importance to Google, once calling it "more profound than fire ...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Last week, prominent Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru said she was fired by the company after managers asked her to retract or withdraw her name from a research paper, and she objected. Google maintains that she resigned, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a company memo on Wednesday that he would investigate what happened. The episode is a pointed reminder of tech companies’ influence and power o...