“What’s the most important feature in a software digital health product?” someone asked me when I first joined Verily Life Sciences. (more…)

An exclusive data analysis by BR (Bavarian Broadcasting) data journalists shows that an AI for personality assessment can be swayed by appearances. This might perpetuate stereotypes... (more…)

More Pentagon spending, a Cold War-style "hotline," and a curb on chip exports to China. (more…)

Today on the Science Talk podcast, Noam Slonim speaks to Scientific American about an impressive feat of computer engineering: an AI-powered autonomous system that can engage in complex debate with humans over issues ranging from subsidizing preschool and... (more…)

Last month Nature published a damning response written by 31 scientists to a study from Google Health that had appeared in the journal earlier this year. Google was describing successful trials of an AI that looked for signs of breast cancer in medical im... (more…)