Monday, August 19, 2024

Is it me or is each organization seeing AI risk differently?

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee96d38-f55b-4e8a-b5c1-e58ce3d4111f

Biggest US companies warn of growing AI risk

Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reports





How beneficial? Worth a read.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/08/19/universities-partner-police-ai-research

When Professors Partner With Police

Universities are leveraging AI to help police overcome bias in crime fighting—while contending with the technology’s own biases.





What has to change to allow “everyone” to use a new technology?

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/innovation-fallacy

The Innovation Fallacy

… But innovation only gets you so far. Without the humbler undertaking of diffusion—how innovations spread and are adopted—even the most extraordinary advances will not matter. A country’s ability to embrace technologies at scale is especially important for technologies such as electricity and AI, foundational advances that boost productivity only after many sectors of the economy begin to use them. A focus on the diffusion of technology points toward an alternative explanation for how technological revolutions change geopolitics: it matters less which country first introduces a major innovation and more which countries adopt and spread those innovations.





Resource.

https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2024/08/19/student-guide-to-ai/

Elon, AAC&U publish student guide to artificial intelligence

The first edition of the student guide to AI was written from the student perspective and includes practical advice on using AI responsibly while in college and preparing for the AI future.

The guide is available at studentguidetoai.org.




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