Time to re-evaluate AI algorithms right from the design stage
The inherent bias that all-too-often springs from AI algorithms is well-documented. With AI bias and errant outcomes surging, a call […]
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The Far-Right Helped Create The World’s Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology
Clearview is the most powerful form of facial recognition technology ever created, according to the Times. With more than 3 […]
This Filter Makes Your Photos Invisible to Facial Recognition
Digital cloaking, and how you can reclaim a modicum of digital privacy. A.I. researchers are starting to think about how […]
Fighting AI Bias
Artificial intelligence (AI) has amazing potential to change the world, and we’ve only just begun to scratch the surface. In […]
Clearview AI facial recognition app maker sued by Vermont
The complaint alleges that the facial recognition company’s scraping of images for its database violates state privacy laws. Vermont’s complaint […]
Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media
One former employee said the secret company called Pink Unicorn Labs was doing the same thing as Cambridge Analytica, “but […]
IBM and Microsoft support the Vatican’s guidelines for ethical AI
IBM and Microsoft have signed the Vatican’s “Rome Call for AI Ethics,” a pledge to develop artificial intelligence in a […]
How Europe’s AI strategy is getting it right
The European Commission’s new White Paper may be the most ambitious yet realistic government strategy for AI we have seen. […]
Clearview AI: Entire Client List Was Stolen
Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got […]
How Explainable AI Is Helping Algorithms Avoid Bias
Artificial intelligence is biased. Human beings are biased. In fact, everyone and everything that makes choices is biased, insofar as […]
Predictive policing systems are flawed because they replicate and amplify racism
The AI Now Institute’s Executive Director, Andrea Nill Sánchez, today testified before the European Parliament LIBE Committee Public Hearing on […]
AI systems claiming to ‘read’ emotions pose discrimination risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that companies claim can “read” facial expressions is based on outdated science and risks being unreliable […]