Can "artificial intelligence" algorithms pose a risk by breaking the rules? (more…)

Today, we are previewing a new public market index - the MAD (for machine learning, AI and data) index. (more…)

Margaret Mitchell leads the Google AI ethics team following the firing of Timnit Gebru. Now Google said Mitchell is under investigation. (more…)

Users of online apps demand 100% uptime and are intolerant of outages and the time it takes to resolve them. At the same time, the number of possible application failure modes in today's cloud and microservice applications are exploding. This means: (more…)

Perhaps you heard about Tay, Microsoft’s experimental Twitter chat-bot, and how within a day it became so offensive that Microsoft had to shut it down and never speak of it again. And you ass… (more…)