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Moving education beyond computer science pipelines.

Madison C. Allen Kuyenga, Eleanor R. Glover Gladney, Michael Lachney, Marwin McKnight, Theodore S. Ransaw, Dominick Sanders, Aman Yadav | October 1, 2023

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Medical AI Is as Much Social as It Is Technological

Medical AI applications need to overcome transparency and trust issues. Nature Machine Intelligence
From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2023

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ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research

Conversational AI is a game-changer for science; here's how to respond. Nature
From ACM Opinion | February 3, 2023

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Advancing Ethics Review Practices in AI Research

Recent initiatives to implement AI ethics review processes, better understand societal impacts, and share learnings have had a positive effect, but more needs to... Nature Machine Intelligence
From ACM Opinion | December 29, 2022

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Can AI Invent?

Recent patent applications for two inventions that are claimed to have been made by an AI are bringing these questions to the fore. Nature Machine Intelligence
From ACM Opinion | December 28, 2022

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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective

To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is... Nature Machine Intelligence
From ACM Opinion | October 24, 2022