A new law allows autonomous vehicles in everyday use and provides legal consistency lacking in the United States.
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Focus: The robot apocalypse is hard to find in America's small and mid-sized factories
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less) || URL ⇲ https://www.reuters.com/technology/robot-apocalypse-is-hard…
How Germany Hopes to Get the Edge in Driverless Technology
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min) URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/business/germany-autonom…
AI system developed to diagnose heart problems
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less) URL ⇲ https://www.jpost.com/health-science/ai-system-developed-to…
A new artificial intelligence system can diagnose heart issues with greater precision than people.
Bourdain Documentary’s Use of A.I. to Mimic Voice Draws Questions
|| AI General Intelligence || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min) URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/movies/anthony-bourdain-…
The documentary “Roadrunner” by Morgan Neville uses 45 seconds of a voice that sounds like Bourdain, generated with artificial intelligence. Is it ethical?
After Backlash, Predictive Policing Adapts to a Changed World
|| Media Article || Short (5 min or less) URL ⇲ https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-backlash-predictive-poli…
Software developers and city governments are rethinking how and when to use algorithms that promise to curb crime
Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min) URL ⇲ https://www.wsj.com/articles/faces-are-the-next-target-for-…
Hackers are pioneering new ways of tricking facial-recognition systems, from cutting the eyes out of photos to making a portrait ‘nod’ with artificial intelligence
Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min) URL ⇲ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by…
Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.
Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min) URL ⇲ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by…
Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.
Use of artificial intelligence by the police: MEPs oppose mass surveillance
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less) || URL ⇲ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210930I…
A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min) URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/world/africa/libya-drone…
A United Nations report suggested that a drone, used against militia fighters in Libya’s civil war, may have selected a target autonomously.