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How AI Will Impact The Future Of Patient Care
In a recent post for Forbes, Sarah Levy writes about the three main areas in which AI will have the most immediate impact: curative care, preventive care and outcome management. She nevertheless warns medical professionals and researchers also need to be cognizant of the constraints of algorithms, which are built upon specific data sets and […] Read more
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Emerging from AI utopia
In an editorial published in Science, Edward Santow, Australia's Human Rights Commissioner, is asking if legal frameworks can protect us from the dark side of this brave new world of technology. Reaffirming that laws apply to the use of AI, as they do in every other context, he insists that they need to be applied more rigorously […] Read more
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Human values in the loop - design principles for ethical AI
A recent blog entry on the Deloitte website suggests a grasp of the core principles of trustworthy AI to help individuals and organizations more effectively create ethical frameworks and deliberate specific issues. It lists these core principles as impact, justice, and autonomy. It's originality resides in its invitation to view ethics not as a constraint […] Read more
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Using phone positioning data to monitor the efforts of social distancing?
25 March 2020 Vincent Gautrais
In an article La Presse of March 24, Tristan Péloquin reports that researchers, politicians and companies, in Canada and elsewhere, would consider using cellphone positioning data to monitor the efforts of social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Three Quebec jurists, including Professor Vincent Gautrais, director of the CRDP, holder of the Chaire LR Wilson […] Read more
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AI Now comments to Canada Office of the privacy commissioner on Data regulation and AI
AI Now submitted written comments to the Canada Office of the privacy commissioner on Data regulation and AI as part of its consultation on proposals for ensuring appropriate regulation of artificial intelligence. They namely highlight that there may be limits to trying to address all risks and harms associated with AI, especially exclusion and discrimination, […] Read more
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ALLAI comments on EU AI strategy
ALLAI (Alliance on Artificial Intelligence) offers its analysis of the European Commission's white paper on artificial intelligence and its plan to frame it, both of which were unveiled last February. It discusses in particular the European position regarding the regulation of AI and the possibility that the Council of Europe is investigating a binding legal […] Read more
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Le Data Protection Act of 2020 : vers une Agence américaine de protection des données?
This content is not available in the selected language. Simon Du Perron, auxiliaire de recherche, a signé plus tôt aujourd’hui un billet de blogue sur le site du Laboratoire de cyberjustice. En raison de son intérêt au regard des travaux de JusticIA, nous le reproduisons ici : Le 13 février 2020, la sénatrice américaine Kirsten Gillibrand, une démocrate […] Read more
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AI needs more regulation, not less
In a recent report from The Brookings Institution’s Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology (AIET) Initiative part of “AI Governance,” a series that identifies key governance and norm issues related to AI and proposes policy remedies to address the complex challenges associated with emerging technologies, Mark McCarty argues in favor of more AI regulation. Criticizing the […] Read more
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Nouvelle stratégie IA de l’Union européenne : Quels impacts pour les entreprises canadiennes du secteur de la santé?
11 March 2020 Cécile Petitgand
This content is not available in the selected language. Cécile Petitgand, chercheuse postdoctorale au H-POD (Hub santé : politique, organisations et droit) et membre de JusticIA a signé le 10 mars dernier un billet de blogue sur le site de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la culture collaborative en droit et politiques de la […] Read more
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Artificial Intelligence in Finance: Putting the Human in the Loop
Regulatory approaches which focus on personal responsibility can help to address the risks posed by the increasing role of AI (artificial intelligence) in finance and the related ‘black box’ issues that arise, according to a new academic paper by Dirk A. Zetzsche, Douglas W. Arner, Ross P. Buckley et Brian Tang. The paper argues for […] Read more