Artificial Intelligence Could Improve Health Care for All - Unless It Doesn't
Artificial Intelligence medical tools could help democratize health care - but some worry they could also worsen inequalities.
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Congress Wants to Protect You from Biased Algorithms, Deepfakes, and Other Bad AI
Only a few legislators really know what they're talking about, but it's a start.
Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science
Whether probing the evolution of galaxies or discovering new chemical compounds, algorithms are detecting patterns no humans could have spotted.
It's Time to Start Some Serious Research into the Ethics of AI
The ethical issues swirling around artificial intelligence (AI) are under-researched, with surprisingly little serious academic investigation into AI ethics, despite the huge amount of money pouring into the field and the rampant pace at which the technology is advancing.
Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI
Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.
Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'
Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.
DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos
The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.
AI-enhanced Peer Review: Frontiers Launches Next Generation of Efficient, High-quality Peer Review
AI-enhanced Peer Review: Frontiers Launches Next Generation of Efficient, High-quality Peer Review
The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.
One of the Fathers of AI is Worried About Its Future
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race, and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.
Your Next Doctor's Appointment Might Be with an AI
A new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice-but are they as good as the real thing?
The Impact of AI on Work: Implications for Individuals, Communities, and Societies
The Impact of AI on Work: Implications for Individuals, Communities, and Societies
The impact of AI technologies on work and working life, and renewed public and policy debates about automation and the future of work.
How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.
Who Needs Democracy When You Have Data?
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines.
Forget Chess: Artificial Intelligence Is Now Debating People
New IBM system shows off argumentation skills.
Why China Will Win the Global Race for Complete Ai Dominance
Kai-Fu Lee - a former Apple, Microsoft and Google executive turned investor - is placing big bets on machine learning. And China is leading the way.
With €1.5 Billion for Artificial Intelligence Research, Europe Pins Hopes on Ethics
Machine Learning Spots Treasure Trove of Elusive Viruses
Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.
Our Mindless Future
Big technology companies seem to be waging a war on humankind’s long-standing intellectual tradition, according to author Franklin Foer, who shows us how to fight back.
Artificial Intelligence Reveals How U.S. Stereotypes About Women and Minorities Have Changed in the past 100 Years
Winner of DARPA Robot Competition Partners with Weapons Company, AI Researchers Call For Boycott
Artificial Intelligence Could Identify Gang Crimes—and Ignite an Ethical Firestorm
Artificial Intelligence Could Identify Gang Crimes—and Ignite an Ethical Firestorm
A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.
Google's Self-Training AI Turns Coders into Machine-Learning Masters
Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.
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