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3 questions for … Marina Jirotka and Helena Webb

18. July 2019 / Viktoria Grzymek

Marina Jirotka (Professor of Human Centred Computing) and Helena Webb (Senior Researcher) work at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science, in the Human Centred Computing theme. From 2016 to 2018 they participated in the research project “UnBias: Emancipating Users Against Algorithmic Biases for a Trusted Digital Economy”, a collaboration with the Universities of […]

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Automated Decisions: Europe must speak with one voice

11. June 2019 / Ralph Müller-Eiselt, Lajla Fetic

Automated decisions have become a part of many Europeans’ daily lives. Whether for job searches in Finland, healthcare functions in Italy, or the identification of neglected children in Denmark, such systems are coming into use in many EU countries – often for core public-administration functions. Will the EU be able to develop a common response […]

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What Europe Knows and Thinks about Algorithms

6. February 2019 / Viktoria Grzymek

“Algorithm” has become one of our era’s prominent buzzwords, with hardly any political or economic debate lacking some reference. Media coverage of algorithms is also growing dramatically – today, the topic can even be found on newspapers’ front pages. However – or perhaps because of this – it is worth taking a look beneath the […]

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All I want for christmas is a quality criteria catalogue for algorithms.

12. December 2018 / Carla Hustedt

Data scientists roaming the room, visitors having busy conversations, christmas jingles in the background, setting the mood for the evening. Last week I presented the #algorules project at the Berlin based Data Science Agency idalab, asking questions like “What standards of quality could algorithms be held to?” and “How is it possible to make sure that these standards […]

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Opinion Piece: Will Germany’s plan for AI make it a leader? Or will it divide Europe?

16. November 2018 / Steven Hill

Why Germany needs to focus on AI that benefits humanity After a long period of planning and incubation, the German government recently agreed on its new strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) development. The plan certainly includes a number of forward-looking steps, but it is also deeply flawed

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Using algorithms to predict death: Lessons learned

20. September 2018 / Dr. Cinthia Briseño

Animals are extraordinary beings. Oscar the cat, for example. Adopted as a kitten by the staff at a nursing home in the United States, he grew up surrounded by people with end-stage dementia. At some point staff members noticed something unusual: Oscar did not interact much with people, but when he made himself comfortable next […]

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Optimizing palliative care: When algorithms predict a patient’s death

19. September 2018 / Dr. Cinthia Briseño

“You only have a few months to live.” That sentence is undoubtedly something no one ever wants to hear. The bearer of such a message is usually a doctor, a person who knows about illness – and whether a patient will survive it or not.

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How algorithms can save people from an early death

17. September 2018 / Dr. Cinthia Briseño

It’s a scene characteristic for medical series such as House, MD or ER: An alarm goes off and the rapid response team rushes in to revive a patient. But what if the warning had come hours before the life-threatening event actually occurred? The US Food and Drug Administration recently greenlighted a system designed to provide […]

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Opinion Piece: Why we need a CERN for AI

22. May 2018 / Steven Hill

The late visionary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was not only a leading scientist in the study of black holes, quantum mechanics and cosmology, he also professed strong views about artificial intelligence (AI). AI, he warned, could be “the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which.” Hawking’s fear was that not […]

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