Many Americans get range anxiety when they contemplate buying an electric vehicle. Is the solution bigger car batteries or better charging and transit infrastructure?
Ruthe Farmer, founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund, says the process of applying for and securing an internship in tech often excludes low-income students who are educated at lesser-known colleges.
At least five Black men in the U.S. were arrested after being misidentified by police artificial intelligence software. The ACLU’s Nate Freed Wessler says law enforcement should “walk away” from this tech.
The idea that advancing technology outpaces regulation serves the industry’s interests, says Elizabeth Renieris of Oxford. Current oversight methods apply to specific issues, but “general purpose” AI is harder to keep in check.
Silver Keskküla created the website Have I Been Encoded to let people check what AI chatbots say about them and raise awareness of the widespread desire to opt out.
Forrester analyst Christina McAllister advises companies to keep human agents involved in those calls and chats. That’s because generative AI models hallucinate, their responses can’t be controlled and they can jeopardize customer relationships.
A new global study suggests that the tsunami of data, much of it conflicting, can paralyze decision-making. Many business leaders would like “a robot to make their decisions,” says data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.
