From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of proprietary… (more…)

Researchers found that a black-box algorithm predicted patient death better than humans. But scientists don’t understand how or why it did. (more…)

It's hardly news to Techdirt readers that China carries out censorship on a massive scale. What may be more surprising is that its censorship extends to even the most innocuous aspects of life. The ChinAI Newsletter, which provides translations... (more…)

On 8 April 2019, the High-Level Expert Group on AI presented Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. This followed the publication of the guidelines' first draft in December 2018 on which more than 500 comments were received through an ... (more…)

Machine are getting very smart. They can see, hear and even draw. What does this mean for jobs? What does this mean for programmatic media? What does this me... (more…)