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IEEE SA News
Building Customer Confidence in Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Financial Industry
The Importance of Applied Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Human data, the fundamental building block for artificial intelligent systems, is currently being accessed and shared in multiple ways across the world without unified policy, technology, or cultural guidelines. For industries like financial services — which is second only to the technology…
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
Re-Think Health Podcast: Contact Tracing Applications and Technologies Beyond COVID-19
IEEE SA Voice podcast discusses ethical considerations of personal privacy versus public health protection with contact tracing technologies and apps in the use of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.
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Technology
Evolving Procurement for Artificial Intelligence Systems in Cities and Beyond
As Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) technology is increasingly sourced from private companies for public use, existing procurement standards may fall short in proactively identifying harm or mitigating risks for citizens or users due to timing or budget constraints. Unfortunately, little research and interdisciplinary exchange exists to date on issues pertaining…
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Technology
SDGs and Personal Sovereignty: Digital Trust in the Algorithmic Age
In the wake of COVID-19, with increased need for location tracking and the sharing of biometric and medical data to combat the pandemic, a dialogue has emerged in governmental, commercial, and civil societies debating the balance between personal privacy and the protection of the public. Calls for personal data sovereignty–the…
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Power & Energy
WSIS Forum 2020: Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through ICTs
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) form the backbone of today's digital economy, with an enormous potential to accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and improve people's lives in fundamental ways—from providing access to education resources and healthcare, and fostering digital services and inclusion, to making communities…
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Artificial Intelligence Systems
Driving Ethical Implementation of A/IS from Principles to Practice
With autonomous and intelligent systems (A/IS) playing a larger and larger role in our daily lives, more and more attention is being paid to the ethical questions these revolutionary technologies raise. IEEE has spent the last three years helping the global A/IS community drive toward concrete, useful recommendations. A three-year,…
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Commentary & Perspectives
Can Ethics be Standardized? Creating Modern Standards for Ethical Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Technologists often react with an eye roll when the subject of ethics comes up. One interpretation of this is that they may think ethics is the purview of philosophy and religion and not really within their domain. An engineer may think of it as a “soft” subject, not the hard…
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Artificial Intelligence Systems
From Principles to Practice in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
As technology grows more and more pervasive across the ways that governments and citizens interact and relate with one another, hard ethical questions have arisen around the concepts of data, privacy, security and the potential benefits to and unintended consequences on human wellbeing. IEEE in recent years has worked to…
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3D
World Standards Day 2018 – Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ten years ago, no one held a miniature portable computer in their hands. But today, much of the world uses mobile phones as their primary means of access to the internet, online business, online shopping, and social media. Twenty years ago, everyone was beginning to worry about Y2K and the…
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Artificial Intelligence Systems
MyData: Individuals In Control
I was first introduced to the MyData community by my friends Sean Bohan and Katryna Dow, two of the smartest people I know working in the realms of personal data and identity. They went to the MyData conference in 2016 and raved about how many smart and forward-thinking people had assembled to…