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The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next?

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We need to define what ‘fair’ is,” says Yong Suk Lee , a professor of technology, economy, and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. That, she says, will need to come through properly informing civil servants of an AI implementation’s capabilities, limitations, and societal impacts.

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Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project

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GCEP, founded 11 years ago, supports research not only at Stanford, but also at universities around the world. About 40% of the awards have gone to non-Stanford researchers at 39 institutions in the United States, Australia, China, Japan and Europe. Bank of America can help move GCEP technologies to commercialization.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It Patient data is protected by law in the United States and elsewhere.

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EXCLUSIVE: Neuralink dragged into humane testing lawsuit – Timeline of Events

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Neuralink has been dragged into a lawsuit by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine against the University of California at Davis. May 2017 – The University of California at Davis and Neuralink sign and agree to Non-Disclosure Agreements regarding testing. Neuralink paid more than $1.4 Moving Forward.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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The crux of the problem, the wireless innovator says, is that model: Making money from ads and page views is encouraging people to share false information, which is causing social unrest. The unfortunate thing is, now there’s more disinformation on the Internet than there is information. About Siavash Alamouti. Employer: Mimik.

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Volkswagen of America temporarily withdraws application for US certification of MY 2016 vehicles; AECDs

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In the prepared testimony, Horn says that in the spring of 2014 when the West Virginia University study that brought the emissions issue to the fore was published, he was told that there was a possible emissions non-compliance issue that could be remedied. Responsible parties will be identified and held accountable.

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