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Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
""Questions about fairness and bias in machine learning are tremendously important for our society," said researcher Arvind Narayanan, an assista…
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AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals
"“A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of…
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Uber’s self-driving plans hit bump in the road
“We are at the point where companies are really understanding there is a lot of money at stake,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law and engineering at…
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Robots to deliver Yelp Eat24 dinners in two SF neighborhoods
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at University of South Carolina and Stanford who studies autonomous vehicles, said he thinks ground robots could even…
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‘Motley Crew’ Is The Unsettling Future Of Drone Warfare
"Anti-autonomous weapons advocate groups are concerned about how these cooperative swarms will select targets, according to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the…
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If no one is behind the wheel in an autonomous car crash, who pays?
"But the liability restriction shouldn’t be an obstacle, says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia who spec…
Here's How Tesla Solves A Self-Driving Crash Dilemma
With very rare exceptions, automakers are famously coy about crash dilemmas. They don’t want to answer questions about how their self-driving cars would respon…
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Self-Driving Cars Raise Questions About Who Carries Insurance
"Still, for many years, there will not be a large number of fully driverless cars on the road. So for the most part, says Bryant Walker Smith, a law profes…
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When self-driving vehicles crash, who's to blame?
"Where technology stands today — at level two or below — it’s the driver, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South C…
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Inside the car-eat-car world of self-driving technology
"“The money involved — the money expended in these research efforts and the money expected if they’re successful — has just ballooned and become so much mo…
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Robot cars: panacea or plague?
"“We’re trying to catch things at the right time in their development,” says Ryan Calo, report co-author and law professor in UW’s Tech Policy Lab."…
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High-Tech Cars May Soon Be Talking To Each Other
"Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford affiliate scholar specializing in technology and law, says this could let a single trucker lead a “platoon” of automated b…