Category: AI
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Why we must act now to revive women’s leadership prospects in an AI-driven workplace
Why we must act now to revive women’s leadership prospects in an AI-driven workplace Sue Duke Head, Global Public Policy and Economic Graph Team, LinkedIn Women have always paid a heavy price for economic instability. And with the global labour market cooling down from the hiring frenzy of 2020 and 2021, it is female professionals…
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When the technical meets the political: Court of Justice rules that EU standards require more openness
When the technical meets the political: Court of Justice rules that EU standards require more openness Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, HEC Paris Business School This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that harmonised technical standards – an influential form of governance…
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Without universal AI literacy, AI will fail us
Without universal AI literacy, AI will fail us Kay Firth-Butterfield Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin Aubra Anthony Strategy & Research Team Lead, USAID, Technology Division Emily Reid Interim CEO, AI4All Mar 17, 2022 This article is republished from The World Economic Forum under a Creative Commons license. Much has been said about…
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This AI tutor could make humans 10 times smarter, its creator says
This AI tutor could make humans 10 times smarter, its creator says David Elliott Senior Writer, Forum Stories Jul 29, 2024 There is only one primary school in Baziyan Village, in the Badong District of China’s Hubei Province. Like many places outside of the country’s biggest cities, Baishaping Primary can struggle to find quality teachers.…
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Generative AI and the workforce: 10 big trends we’re seeing right now
Generative AI and the workforce: 10 big trends we’re seeing right now Nov 25, 2024 David Elliott Senior Writer, Forum Agenda 1. Data-driven organizations are best placed to take advantage of GenAI Those quickest to adopt GenAI among their workforce can be described as data-driven, the report says. These organizations have a long history of…
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Disability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI
Disability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI Elaine Short, Tufts University You might have heard that artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize everything, save the world and give everyone superhuman powers. Alternatively, you might have heard that it will take your job, make you lazy and stupid,…
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Spotify’s audiobook bundle has reduced music royalties. The music industry is fighting back – and authors have questions too
Spotify’s audiobook bundle has reduced music royalties. The music industry is fighting back – and authors have questions too Millicent Weber, Australian National University Audio streaming giant Spotify, one of the world’s largest audio platforms, entered the audiobook market last October, offering its premium subscribers 15 hours per month of free audiobook listening. But audiobook bundling…
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When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’
When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’ Ralph Hertwig, Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Anastasia Kozyreva, Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Sam Wineburg, Stanford University, and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless…
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AI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible
AI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible Bradley Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee Every time a scientist runs an experiment, or a social scientist does a survey, or a humanities scholar analyzes a text, they generate data. Science runs on data – without it, we wouldn’t…
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From virtual tutors to accessible textbooks: 5 ways AI is transforming education
From virtual tutors to accessible textbooks: 5 ways AI is transforming education Andrea Willige Senior Writer, Forum Agenda “About 220 million children are out of school at the moment. About seven out of ten children in least developed economies, at the end of grade four, cannot read one simple sentence or write a simple paragraph,”…
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