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Download the Report Europe missed the first tech boom. It is in the United States’ interest that it does not miss the second. Some Europeans are skeptical about this (and there are indeed Americans who argue for more nationalist economic policies), but a strong Europe is a better partner in defending democracy and a better customer for U.S. companies. This is a straightforward

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Artificial intelligence could sway your dating and voting preferences Scientists show how online algorithms can manipulate people’s decisions. AI algorithms on our computers and smartphones have quickly become a pervasive part of everyday life, with relatively little attention to their scope, integrity, and how they shape our attitudes and behaviours. Spanish researchers have now shown experimentally that people’s voting and dating preferences can be manipulated depending on the type of per...

Study Emphasizes the Need for Public Education on the Effect of AI Algorithms Written by AZoRoboticsApr 22 2021 A new set of experiments shows that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can impact the choice of people for possible romantic partners or fictitious political candidates, based on whether suggestions were clear or hidden. Potential date? Image Credit: Karras, T., Laine, S., & Aila, T. (2018). A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks. Retrieved from ...

[co-author: Ilaria Boschi] As we saw in our last bite, artificial intelligence has been (and is expected to remain) a hot topic this year. This article aims to outline the most relevant provisions envisioned by the EU institutions after the milestone of the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, adopted by the European Commission in February 2020 (see our previous bite on this). As we will argue below, such provisions, including especially the so-called “ October Framework on AI” of Octo...

Ethics in the digital world: Where we are now and what’s next Image: Liu Zishan/Shutterstock.com Will widespread adoption of emerging digital technologies such as the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence improve people’s lives? The answer appears to be an easy “yes.” The positive potential of data seems self-evident. Yet, this issue is being actively discussed across international summits and events. Thus, the agenda of Global Technology Government Summit 2021 is dedicated to ...

Plus: Bon Appétit gets further filleted, and McClatchy is giving employees a raise. By The Objective Staff Feb. 12, 2021, 12:01 p.m. Feb. 12, 2021, 12:01 p.m. Editor’s note: The Front Page is a biweekly newsletter from The Objective, a publication that offers reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities. We happily share each iss...

PA Consulting’s financial services expert, Richard Watson-Bruhn, and public services cyber security expert, Laura Marsden, discuss the opportunities the Biden administration must take to drive renewed international collaboration on cyber security.

Calls for international, and particularly transatlantic, cooperation are growing. In Europe, interest in strengthening “ethical” AI policy is particularly strong – including as a way of making Europe more attractive than other jurisdictions around the world. Close cooperation between Europe and the US is not a given: Europe sees the US as its main competitor in AI; the US wants to join forces against China on AI, but European interest in such a front is weak. The non-combat military realm...

The West, China, and AI surveillance GeoTech Cues by Kaan Sahin (Guest Author) Risks and opportunities It is the year 2027: China has been continually perfecting its full-fledged nationwide surveillance architecture in form of smart and secure cities as well as the social credit system. The results cannot be denied: thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), surveillance systems throughout the streets plast...