Are the engineers of tomorrow ready to meet the ethical challenges of AI?

A chatbot becomes hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum cleaner collects images of users in private situations. A black woman is wrongly identified as a suspect based on facial recognition software, which is typically less accurate at identifying women and people of color. These incidents are not just disruptions, but examples of more … Read more

Are the engineers of tomorrow ready to meet the ethical challenges of AI?

A chatbot becomes hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum cleaner collects images of users in private situations. A black woman is wrongly identified as a suspect based on facial recognition software, which is typically less accurate at identifying women and people of color. These incidents are not just disruptions, but examples of more … Read more

What happened when computers learned to read

Credit – Getty Images cComputers love to read. And it’s not just fiction before you go to bed. They read voraciously: all literature, all the time – novels, encyclopedias, scientific articles, private messages, advertisements, love letters, news stories, hate speech and crime reports – everything written and sent, no matter how insignificant. This swallowed print … Read more