Blog: Facial Recognition Is Not yet a Threat
The availability of facial-recognition technology to governments and law enforcement has been with us for many years and the new…
U.S. Recommends Hands-Off Approach to AI Regulation
Trustworthy AI is imperative, but shouldn’t be over-regulated, the White House says.
Blog: VR & Marketing
Using such sophisticated AR/VR techniques to manipulate children to buy products is questionable. Being gleeful about it is unseemly.
AI: Made in Our Image
Because AI is so passively absorptive of the data fed into it, it cannot help but reflect the biases —…
Defending Cyborg Rights
Will Canada be first to develop policy around volunteer cyborgs? Will we soon use implants to unlock doors or start…
No Plans to Break up Big Tech in EU
European commissioner for competition Margrethe Vestager sees "no limits in how artificial intelligence can support what we want to do…
Blog: It’s the Current of the River
One theme of the documentary "American Factory" is the miscommunication between Chinese and Americans. This review of the film from…
American Factory: A Clash of Cultures
Unfettered capitalism meets Chinese state capitalism in a new documentary. The results of this culture clash in down-on-it's-luck Ohio are…
Blog: Time for an Engineering ‘Hippocratic Oath’
To develop smart cities that serve people, planet and society, engineers might consider adopting a Hippocratic Oath for Engineering to…
Ethisphere’s 21 Most Ethical Tech Companies
Good ethical practices makes for good business. In this year's list of World's Most Ethical Companies, high-tech organizations distinguished themselves