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. Thousands of full-time workers and contractors in several countries to listen to as many as 1,000 audio clips in shifts that last up to nine hours.

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. The proposed algorithmic accountability bill that would establish guidelines for procurement and use of automated decision systems in government.

How the use of AI runs the risk of re-creating the insurance industry's inequities of the previous century.

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.

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" suicide machine.

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.

This robot is at the centre of an experiment in France to change care for elderly patients.

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.

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.

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.