Tag: Artificial Intelligence

Defense Innovation Unit publishes ethical AI guidelines (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Defense Innovation Unit has published new directives for how it plans to use the Pentagon’s recently adopted “Responsible AI Guidelines” in its commercial...

Ontario AI snapshot. The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2020-21 (Vector Institute, Deloitte)

Vector Institute’s latest report on the state of the Ontario AI ecosystem — Ontario AI Snapshot — finds that despite the impact of the...

Privacy policies, se per capirle ci vuole l’intelligenza artificiale (Laura Brandimarte, Agenda Digitale)

Il linguaggio utilizzato nei documenti che descrivono il trattamento dei dati personali (le privacy policies) è spesso oscuro e incomprensibile per la maggior parte di noi....

La Strategia NATO per l’intelligenza artificiale: come applicarla alla difesa in modo etico e sicuro (Gianluca Fabrizi, Lorenza Fortunati, Agenda Digitale)

Lo scorso 21 ottobre è stata presentata la prima strategia della NATO sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IA), in occasione di un incontro tenutosi a Bruxelles tra i Ministri...

Sviluppo sostenibile, l’intelligenza artificiale ci aiuta a centrare il modello giusto (Valter Fraccaro, Agenda Digitale)

Per migliorare l’equilibrio del pianeta, è giunta l’ora di abbracciare un modello di sviluppo sostenibile e l’intelligenza artificiale ci può essere una grande alleata. Dobbiamo in particolare imparare...

Cina: le linee guida etiche per l’uso dell’intelligenza artificiale (Serena Nanni, Agenda Digitale)

La Cina ha redatto le linee guida dell’intelligenza artificiale. Al centro i diritti degli utenti, la coesione nazionale, l’armonia e l’interesse pubblico. Le differenze...

How the Chinese Military is Adopting Artificial Intelligence (Ryan Fedasiuk, Jennifer Melot, Ben Murphy, CSET)

This report examines nearly 350 artificial intelligence-related equipment contracts awarded by the People’s Liberation Army and state-owned defense enterprises in 2020 to assess how...

Winners and losers in the fulfilment of national artificial intelligence aspirations (Samar Fatima, Gregory S. Dawson, Kevin C. Desouza, and James S. Denford, Brookings)

The quest for national AI success has electrified the world—at last count, 44 countries have entered the race by creating their own national AI...

Building a case for decentralised AI ethics (James Brusseau, ORF)

The idea behind decentralised Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics is simple: Instead of a single regulating authority, masses of individuals actively direct technologies through their...

Magnanimous machines: Why AI work should work for people and not the other way around (Neil Watson, ORF)

Over a century ago, GK Chesterton observed that the greatest mistake of civilisation is that  we try to adapt human beings to suit the needs of...

The machine’s rage against the planet (Abhishek Gupta, ORF)

Marc Andreessen famously said that software is ‘eating’ the world, and now we have AI eating up software. However, in this original formulation, the ‘world’ represented the economic...

The wellness industry’s risky embrace of AI-driven mental health care (Alexandrine Royer, Brookings)

If you need to treat anxiety in the future, odds are the treatment won’t just be therapy, but also an algorithm. Across the mental-health industry,...

The DOD’s Hidden Artificial Intelligence Workforce. Leveraging AI Talent at the U.S. Department of Defense (Diana Gehlhaus, Ron Hodge, Luke Koslosky, Kayla Goode, Jonathan...

This policy brief, authored in collaboration with the MITRE Corporation, provides a new perspective on the U.S. Department of Defense’s struggle to recruit and...

Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse (Saahil Desai, Defense One)

For years now, artificial intelligence has been hailed as both a savior and a destroyer. The technology really can make our lives easier, letting...

Comments to Canada’s Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development on a Modern Copyright Framework for AI and the Internet of Things (Nigel Cory,...

Intellectual property (IP) is based on the idea that those who combine the spark of imagination with the grit and determination to see their...

AI Education in China and the United States. A Comparative Assessment (Dahlia Peterson, Kayla Goode, Diana Gehlhaus, CSET)

A globally competitive AI workforce hinges on the education, development, and sustainment of the best and brightest AI talent. This issue brief compares efforts...