So it’s not just my students thinking about this.
Autonomous Vehicles Will Automatically Stop For Police, Roll Down Their Windows And Unlock Their Doors
Joe Cadillic writes:
The National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum want to give law enforcement real-time access to autonomous vehicles.
Last month, this so-called expert panel identified 17 high-priority law enforcement needs for autonomous vehicles. And as you can imagine some of them are very disturbing.
Read more on MassPrivateI.
I didn’t know this was a “thing.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3va9x/zoom-court-videos-are-making-peoples-darkest-hours-go-viral
Zoom Court Videos Are Making People's Darkest Hours Go Viral
'People's worst day, which is often why they're in court, shouldn't be monetized for a global audience's benefit.'
My AI says it doesn’t need them.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/building-compliance-programs-ai-tools
Building Compliance Programs for AI Tools
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) applications are powerful tools that already have been deployed by companies to improve business performance across the health care, manufacturing, retail, and banking industries, among many others.
… But are these companies also prepared to defend the use of AI tools should there be compliance issues at a later time? What should companies do before launching AI tools and what should companies do to continue to feel confident about compliance while the AI tools simplify and hopefully improve processes? The improper application of AI tools or the improper operation or outcomes from the AI tools can create new types of enterprise risks
… Specific compliance related guidance focused on the use of AI tools in health care is lacking at this time, however, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which became law on January 1, 2021, includes the most significant U.S. legislation concerning AI to date, The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (NAIIA). The NAIIA mandates establishment of various governance bodies, in particular, the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, which will advise on matters relating to oversight of AI using regulatory and nonregulatory approaches while balancing innovation and individual rights.
Worth reading.
https://hbr.org/2021/03/ai-can-help-companies-tap-new-sources-of-data-for-analytics
AI Can Help Companies Tap New Sources of Data for Analytics
Improvements in technology have dramatically changed what enterprise analytics can do, but predictive and descriptive analytics still require time, expertise, and heaps of data, and often produce only narrow insights. However, AI is making it possible for analytics to automatically incorporate and process important context from a broad array of sources — many of which would have previously required analysts to navigate silos and poorly maintained catalogues. Now, much as Google applications can tell you based on your home address, calendar entries, and map information that it’s time to leave for the airport if you want to catch your flight, companies can increasingly take advantage of contextual information in their enterprise systems.
(Related)
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/19/its-time-to-abandon-business-intelligence-tools/
It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools
Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case? Because BI has failed businesses.
Kind of SciFi, kind of Tom Clancy.
https://taskandpurpose.com/entertainment/military-future-war-training-ai-vr-drones/
Microdrones, AI, and VR glasses: A sneak peek into the future of war and how we’ll train for it
“The military leader, the commander, is a central figure in our common narratives about war.”
So writes Therese Heltberg in her essay “Art, Craft, or Science: How We Think About Military Leadership.” But what goes into the making of that military leader, and how can narrative assist in explaining it?
This is the central question at the heart of the following story we call An Eye For A Storm. Deploying a deliberate blend of narrative and research (known as “Useful Fiction”), it envisions not just a future military mission, but also the future of professional military education. These are key issues to explore as the Australian Defence Force implements its Defense Enterprise Learning Strategy toward planning for 2035 and beyond, to ensure it has the “intellectual edge” in future wars and strategic competition.
Interesting.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-young-political-spaces-of-the-internet
The Young Political Spaces of the Internet
How a new generation has embraced extreme views online.
… Will shutting down radical speech on the Internet prevent the following generation from embracing the extreme politics of the Trump era? And can the Internet itself be used as an effective tool for deradicalization?
The urgency of these questions persuaded a researcher named Joshua Citarella to spend the past four years embedded in what he calls the “young political spaces” of the Internet, gathering a singular body of research on Gen Z’s political appetites. Focussing primarily on platforms like Instagram and messaging apps like Discord, he’s witnessed firsthand a generation quickly learning to embrace hard-core political positions. Fringe beliefs such as anarcho-primitivism or eco-fascism have become familiar ideologies, and figures like Fuentes possess cultish influence. For those who think social media is a recently politicized sphere, Citarella likes to point out that, for Gen Z, being online has always been synonymous with being political.
This is one reason that he argues that recent efforts by tech platforms to shut down radical speech are dangerous and misguided. Worse, he believes the approach has the potential to drive further radicalization by causing extreme communities to burrow into increasingly closed-off platforms.
Perspective. Right services at the right time?
How Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon
… The Big Three of digital advertising—Google, Facebook and Amazon—already dominated that sector going into 2020. The pandemic pushed them into command of the entire advertising economy. According to a provisional analysis by ad agency GroupM, the three tech titans for the first time collected the majority of all ad spending in the U.S. last year.
… The triopoly increased their share of the U.S. digital-ad market from 80% in 2019 to a range approaching 90% in 2020, GroupM estimates. It’s a surge that comes as the three face scrutiny and litigation from various agencies at home and abroad over their dominance.
I’ve been suggesting this for years and I still don’t have fiber! I still have a monopoly to deal with...
https://www.wsaz.com/2021/03/18/city-creates-own-internet-system-due-to-service-problems/
City creates own internet system due to service problems
After years of trying to get an internet service provider to invest in the city, South Charleston is investing in itself by installing a fiber optic network to improve internet speed and reliability.
The first installations are being completed this week and the goal is to eventually have fiber in front of every house in the city. This fiber network will then be leased out to multiple internet service providers, such as Frontier and Suddenlink, who can use it to supply a super high speed product.
“They can compete on cost, on service and on quality,” South Charleston Development Authority Executive Director Rick Atkinson said. “The winners in the marketplace are the ones who provide the best service at the best value.”
Continuing my effort to get rid of my students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/business/resume-filter-articial-intelligence.html
Résumé-Writing Tips to Help You Get Past the A.I. Gatekeepers
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