Canada and France recently announced plans for an international panel to assess the dangers of artificial intelligence and formulate appropriate policies.
MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2018
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2018
Researchers have developed a technique to see through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and an ordinary smartphone.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2018
That's the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly.
Technology Review From ACM News | September 12, 2018
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
Technology Review From ACM News | July 25, 2018
When Amit Khera explains how he predicts disease, the young cardiologist's hands touch the air, arranging imaginary columns of people: 30,000 who have suffered...Technology Review From ACM News | February 26, 2018
A new algorithm can identify who is swiping a smartphone screen, which could lead to child-proof devices.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 15, 2018
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify an art forgery by examining the piece's brush strokes.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 27, 2017
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2017
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 10, 2017
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology...Technology Review From ACM News | July 28, 2017
Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let's not leave it up to the algorithm makers...MIT Technology Review From ACM News | June 12, 2017
Every city has at least one dangerous intersection where cars, trucks, and buses jostle for space with pedestrians and bicyclists, often resulting in injury, and...Technology Review From ACM News | June 7, 2017
Electric grids worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack as new technologies like smart meters and analytical software are added to them, with mature systems...Technology Review From ACM News | May 18, 2017
As the dust settles from the global ransomware attack that has crippled systems in more than 150 countries since Friday, the U.S. government's shadowy process for...Technology Review From ACM News | May 17, 2017
The Mozilla Foundation's new Internet Health Report identifies obstacles that undermine entrepreneurship and democracy online.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2017
A growing mass of poorly secured devices on the Internet of things represents a serious risk to life and property, and the government must intervene to mitigate...Technology Review From ACM News | December 6, 2016