Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Digital accessibility has its roots in a decades-long legal movement.
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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
There is promising, if somewhat slow, progress on making facial recognition software less biased.
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A Call to Action
We cannot put the genii back in the bottle, but we can ensure human control.
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Raising Robovoices
“If you just chain together automatic transcription, translation, and speech synthesis, you end up accumulating too many errors.”
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Modern Tech Can’t Shield Your Secret Identity
Superheroes worry about having their identities revealed, while the rest of us in the real world worry about surveillance technologies and how they can be easily abused.
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Technology’s Impact on Morality
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.—Freeman Dyson
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Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region
The E.U. is an early mover in the race to regulate AI, and with the draft E.U. AI Act, it has adopted an assurance-based regulatory environment using yet-to-be-defined AI assurance standards.
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U.S. to triple operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity
Computing upgrade paves way for planned model improvements.
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How AI digital twins help weather the world’s supply chain nightmare
Just-in-time shipping is dead. Long live supply chains stress-tested with AI digital twins.
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This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents’ Garage
Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.
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How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
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Responsible AI Guidelines
DIU launched a strategic initiative in March 2020 to implement the DoD’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its commercial prototyping and acquisition programs.
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The Department of Defense is issuing AI ethics guidelines for tech contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
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DOD Adopts Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Department of Defense officially adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence today following recommendations provided to Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper by the Defense Innovation Board last October.
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How Bots Corrupted Advertising
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.
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What Is the Metaverse, Exactly?
Everything you never wanted to know about the future of talking about the future.
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U.S. supercomputers for weather and climate forecasts get major bump
Twin supercomputers Dogwood (pictured here) and Cactus are the newest additions to NOAA’s weather and climate operational supercomputing system. Located in Manassas, Virginia, and Phoenix, Arizona, respectively, each supercomputer operates at a speed of 12.1 petaflops — three times faster than NOAA’s former system.
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Undersea Cables Are Carrying Scientific Secrets
Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
Mega-publishers are saying electronic books do not wear out, but this is not true at all.
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The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Iran, Turkey, and Myanmar promised tighter trade relationships with Russia and China.
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