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|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say nearly half of all accounts tweeting about the coronavirus appear to be bot accounts.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study by an MIT professor finds that for each additional robot per thousand workers reduced the national employment-to-population ratio by 0.2%, disproportionally affecting some parts of the US more than others.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
AI systems are being used to detect whether people are standing less than 6 feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but concerns are being raised around whether temperature tracking is. or could become a serious privacy concern.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A team led by researchers at NYU Tandon discover that credibility indicators flagging spurious headlines can reduce intention to share non-true news, though demographics and political affiliation influence their effectiveness.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
While digital surveillance is being used to curb coronavirus, it also has the potential to be used long after the pandemic to monitor individuals' movement.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Should lethal autonomous weapon systems be programmed to strike and kill without direct human oversight? If so, when and how? Should the algorithms used to make automated battlefield decisions be subject to review and inspection? If so, by whom?
|| Future of Work || Blog Post || Long (10+ min)
The second annual report examine where jobs are being created as a result of AI and where in the US they are being created.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley found that risk assessment tools, driven by algorithms, can provide accurate support for the decision process.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Facebook has announced a new policy banning AI-manipulated “deepfake” videos that are likely to mislead viewers, but the policy explicitly covers only misinformation produced using AI, meaning “shallow fakes” – videos made using conventional editing tools – though frequently j
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Technology has allowed personal intimacy and connection to flourish too much, and anywhere. Now every space is a superspace, a place that might be fused together with any other.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Algorithms falsely identified African-American and Asian faces 10 to 100 times more than Caucasian faces, researchers for the National Institute of Standards and Technology found.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files.
|| Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A report says that the automotive industry has experienced 94% year-over-year growth in hacks since 2016. White hat hackers/bug bounties have accounted for 38% of these hacks, but majority are from black hat hackers.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Few politicians have teams to spot false statements about them online, or to fight back before it spreads.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cigna Corp. plans to expand a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify gaps in treatment of chronic diseases, such as patients skipping their medications, and deliver personalized recommendations for specific patients.
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The technologies Facebook uses to put advertising it deems relevant in front of people may be more responsible for the polarization of American politics than previously understood, a team of researchers has concluded.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.