Trump’s freeze on new visas could threaten US dominance in AI
MIT Technology
Trump’s move to bar foreigners from working in the US is part of the administration’s broader push to keep US jobs for Americans. In the months leading up to the…
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A new US bill would ban the police use of facial recognition
The news: US Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban the use of facial recognition technology by federal law enforcement agencies. Specifically, it would make it illegal for…
Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court
The initiative, led by Swansea University in the UK along with a number of human rights groups, is part of an ongoing effort to monitor the alleged war crimes happening…
If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics
What opportunities have we missed by not having these procedures in place? It’s easy to overhype what’s possible, and AI was probably never going to play a huge role in…
AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms
The news: An open letter[1] from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it originally planned to include in its…
The global AI agenda: The Middle East and Africa
The global AI agenda: The Middle East and Africa | MIT Technology Review You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Skip to Content This report is part of…
Big Tech Zeros In on the Virus-Testing Market
New York Times
Verily Life Sciences, a sister company of Google, scrambled to introduce a free coronavirus-screening site[1] for the public and set up testing locations in March after President Trump made an…
The startup making deep learning possible without specialized hardware
GPUs became the hardware of choice for deep learning largely by coincidence. The chips were initially designed to quickly render graphics in applications such as video games. Unlike CPUs, which…
Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’
When the coronavirus pandemic reached her neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston, infecting her garbage man and sending everyone else into quarantine, Libby Francola was already reeling. She had just…
The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police
But on Wednesday, June 10, Amazon shocked civil rights activists and researchers when it announced that it would place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition. The move followed…
