European Union squares the circle on the world's first AI rulebook
EU policymakers reach a political agreement on the AI Act, a landmark bill to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its capacity to cause harm.
The AI Act includes provisions for broad exemptions for AI systems used for military or defense purposes, as well as a list of banned applications that pose an unacceptable risk. [ more ]
Predictive Police Tech Isn't Making Communities Safer - It's Disempowering Them
Predictive policing technologies have failed to deliver on their promises and have had negative impacts on communities.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author of The Rise of Big Data Policing, discusses the failures of predictive policing and the creation of new data empires. [ more ]