AI & RoboticsNews

Why AI ethics needs to address AI literacy, not just bias

August 13, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. When you hear about AI ethics, it’s mostly about bias. But Noelle Silver, a winner of VentureBeat’s Women in AI responsibility and ethics award, has dedicated herself to an often overlooked part of the responsible AI equation: AI literacy. “That’s my vision, is that we really increase literacy across the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: The road to ethical adoption of AI

August 13, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As new principles emerge to guide the development ethical, safe, and inclusive AI, the industry faces self-inflicted challenges. Increasingly, there are many sets of guidelines — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s AI repository alone hosts more than 100 documents — that are vague and…
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MobileNews

Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview

August 13, 2021
In a video interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple SVP Craig Federighi discusses the reaction to the iCloud Child Safety features announced last week. Federighi admits that the simultaneous announcement of the Messages protections for children and CSAM scanning, two similar features but work in very different ways, has caused customer confusion and Apple could have done a better job at…
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MobileNews

iPhone with USB-C port: EU presses on with pointless law

August 13, 2021
Many of us would like to see an iPhone with USB-C port in place of Lightning, so that we can finally have a single charger type for all our main Apple devices: iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The European Union is trying to pass a law that would make this mandatory, despite the fact…
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Formula E closes out the season this weekend in Berlin

August 13, 2021
Formula E’s season finale is coming up this weekend in Berlin with a doubleheader of races at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit. It’s another two-race weekend, but this one is a little different – for the second race, the cars will go the opposite direction around the track to shake things up a bit. Last year, the second half of the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and…
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