You may have heard that “data is the new oil”—in other words, data is the critical raw material that drives innovation in tech and business, and like oil, it must be collected at a massive scale an

François Candelon, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, conducted an experiment to see how workers can be most effective while using generative AI.

Written version available on Medium: https://bit.ly/3TdpyMg On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge?". The roundtable was a closed meeting, but sharing our opening remarks is allowed, so I am posting mine here. For more on the round table, see: https://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-ranking-member-scott-hosted-a-roundtable-on-artificial-intelligence-in-the-workplace

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The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.

In total, 1004 days after the European Commission has presented the #AIAct on Wednesday, 21 April 2021, the last technical meeting concluded the legislative negotiations on Friday, 19 January 2024. While the European Parliament’s report took 43 Technical and 12 Shadows meetings to be finalized, the

Deformable Neural Radiance Fields creates free-viewpoint portraits (nerfies) from casually captured videos.

Perhaps we shouldn’t trust a billionaire who’s been reckless with personal information that he wants to exploit yet again.

Memorialize or close the account of a deceased member

Global medium-range weather forecasting is critical to decision-making across many social and economic domains. Traditional numerical weather prediction uses increased compute resources to improve...

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

“They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.

The long read: Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them?

The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.

As a Global Forum on the Ethics of AI opens today in Slovenia, Gabriela Ramos sits down with ‘Fast Company’ to talk about the need to consider AI’s impacts beyond those discussed by first-world countries.

This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools

With definitive approval of the #EU #AIAct within reach, we've both taken stock and looked ahead: what's next for AI governance, both in Europe and beyond?…

I never thought I'd experience so much dread looking at an image of two babies & a crab.

Human authors sue company for "theft on a mass scale.”

In its privacy policy, Google reveals that it stores convos with its AI-powered Gemini apps for three years by default.

Aware uses AI to analyze companies' employee messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communications services.

This is why I left. I saw an industry dominated by selfish and greedy people with absolutely no moral limits, and people who make excuses for selfish and…

Be wary of anyone who tells you, when you are giving substantive, authoritative, evidence-based criticism of what they're doing/profiting from, that you are…

Consortium includes more than 200 leading AI stakeholders and will support the U.S. AI Safety Institute at NIST.

How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

Poonam Pandey's campaign to draw attention to cervical cancer has received mixed reactions.

Facebook and its parent company Meta have truly harmed the world, writes David Kirkpatrick.

Why you should be worried

From November 1-2, the UK government hosted its inaugural AI Safety Summit, a gathering of international government officials, AI business leaders, researchers, and civil society advocates to discu…