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Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere
Since 2018, Delta has worked with CBP to offer international passengers flying from Atlanta the option of checking in and…
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Autonomous Weapons Are Here, but the World Isn’t Ready for Them
This may be remembered as the year when the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic…
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Facebook Says Its New AI Can Identify More Problems Faster
Few-Shot Learner is pretrained on a firehose of billions of Facebook posts and images in more than 100 languages. The…
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The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A forthcoming report by the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), a private nonprofit, recommends requiring disclosure when an AI model is…
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Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
One year ago Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru tweeted, “I was fired” and ignited a controversy over the freedom…
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Robots Won’t Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
AI holds significant promise for making robots far more capable. Instead of blindly following a routine, an AI-enabled machine can…
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3 Years After the Maven Uproar, Google Cozies to the Pentagon
Jack Poulson, a former Googler who is now executive director of nonprofit Tech Inquiry, says the air gap and Maven…
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This Company Tapped AI for Its Website—and Landed in Court
Automating the work of complying with those guidelines could make the web more welcoming. But more than 600 accessibility experts…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Kai-Fu Lee and Yoky Matsuoka Imagine AI’s Potential for Good
When we think of artificial intelligence, many of us jump to visions of the future from science fiction—hellscapes like The…
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