Optus opens privacy can of worms with programmable voice play
Bringing an assistant into the phone calls of customers to help with a restaurant booking is an idea fraught with […]
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UK ICO Issues Draft Guidance on Explaining Decisions Made by AI
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has issued and is consulting on draft guidance about explaining decisions made by AI. […]
EU Commissioner Vestager to present new AI law at the start of 2020
Over the next three months, European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will draft a new European law for AI. As of December, […]
Facebook alters video to make people invisible to facial recognition
Facebook AI Research says it’s created the first machine learning system that can stop a facial recognition network from identifying […]
AI face-scanning algorithm to decide whether you deserve the job
HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it “profoundly disturbing.” More […]
This Is What the Future of A.I. Regulation Could Look Like
The German Data Ethics Commission has produced a series of recommendations for regulating algorithms and artificial intelligence. Its ideas will […]
Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy
Machine learning, for all its benevolent potential to detect cancers and create collision-proof self-driving cars , also threatens to upend […]
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Releases Principles on Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Chamber’s Technology Engagement Center and Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation recently released a set of ten principles essential […]
AI policing tools may “amplify” prejudices
Evidence has suggested that the absence of consistent guidelines for the use of automation and algorithms, may lead to discrimination […]
Researchers Created AI That Hides Your Emotions From Other AI
As smart speaker makers such as Amazon improve emotion-detecting AI, researchers are coming up with ways to protect our privacy. […]
CoE launches public consultation on human rights impact of algorithmic systems
The Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI) of the Council of Europe has published draft recommendation on the human […]
Facebook’s face recognition software should worry us.
Facebook holds “the largest facial dataset to date”—powered by DeepFace, Facebook’s deep-learning facial recognition system. Policymakers and experts are now […]