artificial intelligence
Last week I wrote about ethical frameworks for artificial intelligence. There’s a proliferation of these being devised just now. We need them, I argued, because AI’s becoming so important and because so much about it’s new. “AI4People” I’d draw this week, I said, on one initiative among these, which is called AI4People, led by Luciano Floridi from Oxford University’s Digital Ethics Lab. This aims to lay foundations for what it calls a “Good AI Society”. (...
The 2019 edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) will be officially launching on 28 November, and this is your chance to have a first look at full-length content through this special GISWatch 2019 Sneak Peek! In partnership with ARTICLE 19 and with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), this year’s GISWatch report takes a deep dive into the theme of “Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development”. The conver...
The 2019 edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) will be launching at the IGF in Berlin on 28 November! The theme this year is quite timely, as the new edition explores “Artificial intelligence: Human rights, social justice and development”. This year, in partnership with ARTICLE 19 and with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), we ha...
A damning new report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, raises alarm about the rise of the digital welfare state, which uses data and technologies to automate, predict, identify, surveil, detect, target and punish the poor. The report, recently presented to the UN General Assembly, covers a range of uses of digital technologies for wel...
The session on "Algorithmic transparency and the right to explanation" took place on the first day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2018. There was a great deal of expectation around this workshop, because algorithms and the right to explanation is a hot topic with numerous concerns but not many answers. The room was crowded – there were even people who listened to the session while sta...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of this year’s hottest topics. Governments and businesses are investing big-time (China’s said by some to be best placed). Wide-eyed consultancies spell out the wonders they foresee ahead (with predictions of big dollars). Androids and robots stalk the silver screen. I’ve been listening lately to AI experts talking of AI, and most of them rather w...
