The way that cultures have created myths and stories over centuries about the meaning of life and death foregrounds changing relationships to time and our use of it during our life, and the rituals undertaken when someone passes in order to ‘remember’ their time alive. With progression in medicine, relationships…

The state of the industry and how we need to change it. In conversation with.. Our panellists gave us a few thoughts on where they see the status of women in AI at this moment in time Amanda: As a woman working in AI I think it’s a well known fact there a few of us, about 15%, and this lack of diversity is holding AI back. Ayori: The largest barrier is…

In recent years uptake in the use of dating apps has become as common as meeting in a bar, and since the pandemic the need to meet people online has sky-rocketed with Tinder reporting a record 3 billion swipes on 29th March 2020. Dating apps use various types of matching…

These experts discuss the problems, challenges and benefits of auditing AI and creating ethical principles to guide tech development and create fairer outcomes, as well as the issues of lack of competency in many smaller businesses when it comes to spotting risk. In Conversation with.. Many businesses want to work ethically but don’t know how to translate principles into practice. Merve: A lot of companies are committing themselves…

Who should decide how our data is used? Can the same regulation be enforced globally? How do we get Big Tech to look after their consumers? Our experts at the Bucket List Summit discussed these questions and more, and this article shares with you the main ideas from this discussion. …

AI bias, thankfully, is becoming an increasingly hotter discussion topic in the technology industry — amongst academics and ethicists, and now with public awareness. …

Power and inequality is reproduced through our algorithms. It’s a simple fact and it’s something the industry as a whole is starting to become aware of. Their design is a direct reflection of the cultural values of the designers and the company that makes them, but it also mediates and…

With increasing infiltration of data-collecting technologies in our everyday lives, data privacy is a hot topic and one with lots of contrasts in approaches. This article weighs up the reasons why we don’t have enough privacy, as well as reasons to give up our privacy for the greater good. How…

With the increase in globalisation, ethical principles for AI follow the same global outlook. In doing so, variations in cultural values and ideologies are being overlooked and instead AI is designed for the values of the global west. …