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|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google and the University of Chicago Medical Centre are being sued after hundreds of thousands of patient records were shared without removing date stamps or doctors notes, making it possible for Google to determine the identities of each patient.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How Yelp is replacing restaurant's real phone numbers with numbers owned by Grubhub so they can record calls and can charge a 15-20% referral fee, unbeknownst to restaurant owners. As of May 2020, NYC has passed a bill to end this practice.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A growing number of real-world researchers and companies are developing tools designed for exactly this task. And, despite what you might initially fear, the results are really promising.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Research institutes and companies are rushing to develop care robots for a growing number of senior citizens suffering from dementia to ease the burden on family members who take care of them.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. The article lists ways to increase your privacy.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon employs a global team that transcribes the voice commands captured after the wake word is detected and feeds them back into the software to help improve Alexa’s grasp of human speech so it can respond more efficiently in the future.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Bills HB1655 and SB 5527 aims at bias and other risks in the software that governments use for a range of decisions, from criminal sentencing to school placement.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How the use of AI runs the risk of re-creating the insurance industry's inequities of the previous century.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
There are a number of hurdles to overcome before robots are a common feature of care environments, including keeping them secure from hackers, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations and legal challenges surrounding liability for decisions made by the robots.
|| General Ethics || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A list of ten technologies consumers ought to think about in 2019 and a brief explainer of each: pet cloning, DIY neurohacking, behavioural biometrics, 5G, datification of children, Insect Allies, Sidewalk Labs, autonomous translation, seeding trials,and "Sarco" suic
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A scientist claims he had used CRISPR to gene-edit pair of twins to make them resistant to HIV, and the scientific community is disappointed. The ethics of this action are put into question and condemned by the international community.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
This robot is at the centre of an experiment in France to change care for elderly patients.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Under what circumstances should militaries delegate the decision to take a human life to machines? It’s a moral leap that the international community is grappling with.
|| Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
Some of the same mechanisms that make online organizing so powerful also make us particularly vulnerable in these spaces, to tactics that seed misinformation from malicious actors.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Rolls-Royce has announced that it's working with Intel to create cargo vessels that can navigate the oceans without a human crew onboard. Instead, the ships will have LIDAR, radar, thermal cameras and HD cameras as part of its intelligence awareness system.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Automation can sometimes substitute for human work. But by reinventing jobs to optimize work between humans and automation, organizations can attract a larger and more qualified applicant pool and achieve better retention, greater safety, and increased diversity.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon.com Inc's AMZN.O machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
|| Future of Work || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
A report by the OECD finds that 14% of jobs across 32 countries are vulnerable to automation, and a further 32% of roles will see significant differences in how tasksa re performed.
|| Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An early peek of design plans for Sidewalk Toronto
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Arguments for using algorithms over human decision making, inlcuding research on level of accuracy and bias.