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Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet In 1836, the Scottish geologist, chemist, and "agricultural improver" Sir George Stewart Mackenzie was concerned about what he called the "recent atrocities" of violent crime in the British penal colony of New South Wales, Australia. The root cause, he thought, was a failure to manage which criminals were transported to work in the colony -- especially the two-thirds of convicts who worked for private masters. "At present they are shipped off, and distributed to the settlers, without the least regard to their cha...

Was 2020 a watershed for public sector use of algorithms? Last year saw public protests about the use of predictive analytics in decision making. As the technology becomes more widely used in many public services, Sam Trendall asks experts about the implications for government, the law – and the citizens affected A protest about the use o algorithms in exam results. Photo: PA If government did not know it has an algorithm problem, it certainly does now. “There is a clear, and understandable, nervousness about the use and consequences of algorithms, exacerbated by the events of this summer...

There are significant disparities in South Africa’s education system. Schools are divided into quintiles, from one to five; the poorest, in quintile one, struggle enormously with a lack of resources and support. They also tend to have poorer educational outcomes. That has a direct effect on university admission and outcomes. One of the government’s attempts to address these inequalities is through technology. This began as early as 2003 with the Draft White Paper on e-Education. These and similar policies aim to resource more marginalised schools, universities and colleges with digital to...

But what Faculty lies behind the plans for adoption and economic expansion? Lindsay Clark Fri 8 Jan 2021 // 15:59 UTC Share Copy The UK's AI Council could not have picked a worse week to launch its roadmap. As the world's media was understandably obsessing with the US panto-cum-insurrection season, who would highlight its attempt to put this island nation, newly unshackled from the EU, on a path to a 10 per cent GDP boost from AI by 2030? Observers might have hoisted a few red flags when they looked at who is behind the body, charged with providing independent input to...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Just before Christmas, the House of Lords Liaison Committee published a new report on Artificial Intelligence (AI): “AI in the UK: No Room for Complacency”.  The report examines the progress made by the UK government in implementing the recommendations of the Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in their 2018 report entitled “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?”.  The Select Committee had been appointed “to consider the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence”, and its...