Artificial Intelligence Systems
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5 Issues at the Heart of Empathic AI
Highlights Technology that can predict mood or simulate emotion has the potential to impinge on the outcomes of our lives, underlying the need for an ethics standard for empathic AI.Currently under development, the IEEE P7014 standards project is focused on five key aspects of empathetic AI ethics.In parallel to the…
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Ethical Considerations of Extended Reality (XR)
Highlights As XR allows users to see the world in new ways, the autonomous and intelligent systems enabling this emergent field also raise ethical questions about the collection and usage of user data.IEEE SA published a series of white papers on XR ethics drawing insights from global researchers, industry professionals,…
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Podcast: Is AI Good for Medicine and the Patients It is Trying to Help?
Highlights We need to ask how pragmatic AI is in delivering good medicine and enhancing patient outcomes equally.This podcast series dives deep into conversations with multi-disciplinary experts about the pragmatic, responsible, and equitable use of AI in healthcare.Take a sneak peek at the topics covered in the series. New episodes…
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How To Make Autonomous Systems More Transparent and Trustworthy
Highlights IEEE 7001 standard describes specific, measurable levels of transparency that can be assessed objectively, and identifies compliance that can be determined during system design.IEEE 7001 complements and extends the IEEE 7000 series, which focuses on various aspects of ethics in engineering to enable societal benefit.The IEEE CertifAIEd program was…
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Promoting Standardization in Smart Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications
Dr. Sha Wei knows from her decades of experience in the IT field, that artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to positively change lives—from helping doctors make the right medical decisions to save someone’s life, to designing fair loan-repayment terms. She’s also seen mistakes AI has made that have posed…
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The Future of a Patient-Centered Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) System is Highly Competitive and Innovative
On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, nine trailblazing and innovative finalists competed in the IEEE SA Telehealth Virtual Pitch Competition hosted by IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice and the IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm Industry Connections Program. The competition officially launched the last week of November 2021 and…
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Three Healthcare and Life Sciences Trends to Watch in 2022
As the COVID-19 global pandemic waged on in 2021, we saw a global population continue to use mobile and remote technologies for everyday tasks: video conferencing platforms were used by workers and students, streaming content applications kept us entertained at home, and grocery shopping was done through a mobile app.…
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Four Connectivity and Telecom Trends to Watch in 2022
As we look toward 2022, we can see the evidence of a convergence of influencing factors driving a rapid advancement of technology innovation. But to talk about what we see for 2022, we first need to step back a few years for context. In 2020, global organizations engaged in digital…
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Five Foundational Technology Trends to Watch in 2022
Over the past year, adoption and investment in emerging technologies and new applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT) have continued to increase, as connectivity among devices capable of sending and receiving massive amounts of data grows significantly. This increased traffic is driven by diverse enabling technologies, such as…
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The IEEE CertifAIEd Framework for AI Ethics Applied to the City of Vienna
In a proof-of-concept collaboration between the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) and the City of Vienna, the newly developed IEEE CertifAIEd framework was successfully applied to an artificial intelligence (AI) system for the automatic categorization of incoming customer requests. Addressing Risks of Artificial Intelligence Systems AI applications are increasingly being…