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The Yuan announces new ‘brainstorming’ series exploring neuroscience, AI
Brain science
As humanity teeters on the brink, fears mount over the cognitive powers of the aging global leaders on whose shoulders rests the task of averting human extinction. This moment is thus opportune for The Yuan to unveil our new brain science series, starting on April 1, to catalog its interplay with AI.
Shifeng Wang  |  Mar 01 , 2024
Bio-Europe Winter Conference highlights latest trends in life sciences
Generic
The Bio-Europe Winter Conference is held in a different city each year - and last year, the rota fell on Munich. With a proven track record of fostering partnerships and innovation, the event showcased key biopharma trends set to impact healthcare over the next decades.
Oladimeji Ewumi  |  Feb 29 , 2024
Legal status, IP rights of automatons raise many troubling questions
Generic
Can a computer own intellectual property or bear criminal liability? GenAI poses thorny questions that challenge existing notions of ownership, copyright, and legal responsibility, argues financial crime risk and compliance specialist and legal expert Nigel Morris-Cotterill.
Nigel Morris-Cotterill  |  Feb 28 , 2024
There is a strong case to be made for regulating GenAI through common law
Governance
Arguments over whose regulations are best regarding AI, LLMs, and other advance tech overlook the possibility that common law, with its case-by-case approach, offers the best solution for crafting sensible regulatory frameworks, argue profs S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang.
Angela Huyue Zhang, S. Alex Yang  |  Feb 27 , 2024
UK and US AI regulatory frameworks precede AI safety summit, impact healthcare
Governance
Both the UK and US governments published AI regulatory frameworks ahead of the first-ever AI Safety Summit hosted at Bletchley Park in November 2023. The two frameworks are both organized by five similar principles, and by comparing them AI developers will be better equipped to create AI tools designed for use in both UK and US settings.
Matthew Marcetich  |  Feb 26 , 2024
AI brings disconcerting change. Beware the “weaponised nostalgia” of populism
Cognition
The populism that has recently surged can be summarised as ‘weaponized nostalgia.’ Best-selling AI author, keynote speaker and London Futurist Podcast co-host Calum Chace cites historical examples to warn of the perils that demagogues will pose in the age of AI.
Calum Chace  |  Feb 23 , 2024
AI fails to flag autoimmune diseases, of which women form 80% of victims
Domain knowledge
Autoimmune diseases are tricky for both AI and humans to spot and diagnose. Even specially-bred algorithms often fail to find their quarry, with devastating consequences for their mostly women sufferers. ML engineer and technical writer Jacia Ebubechi kindles a beacon of hope.
Jacia Ebubechi  |  Feb 22 , 2024
AI’s use must nurture a safer world, not just a more advanced one
Optimization
AI has completely changed the way public health and many other sectors work, and while many of these developments are impressive, questions remain about how best to address existing safety issues, writes Dr Jennifer Dunphy, senior VP for a top US physician association.
Jennifer Dunphy  |  Feb 21 , 2024
Persuasive AI threatens society, democracy - even humanity itself
Cognition
What is needed to change a person’s mind? As GenAI becomes more embedded in customer-facing systems such as human-like phone calls or online chatbots, this ethical question must be widely addressed - especially given AI’s tendency to conduce the spread of disinformation.
AI octopus flexes its tentacles to entrench Big Tech’s hegemony
Emerging markets
No end looms in sight to Big Tech companies’ chokehold on the digital economy, and AI’s steady rise bids fair to buttress this trend based on these corporate leviathans’ access to data and knowledge of consumer and business behavior, argues author and Law Prof Eric Posner.
Eric Posner  |  Feb 19 , 2024
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Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova is a computational linguist who speaks seven languages. She heads two companies, Anacode and Equintel, that use AI to deliver cutting-edge business intelligence and guide clients towards smarter decisions, strategy, and execution.
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker is Professor of Marketing at INSEAD and the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science.His research explores why existing theories governing macroeconomic growth and firm level competition yield unreliable forecasts of actual market outcomes. He introduced the idea that physical sciences should be directly integrated into macroeconomic studies.
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari is an entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, adjunct professor, and TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Innovation Titan, a data-science thought leadership and advisory firm. He advises executives on data-driven leadership and helps organizations adopt a culture of data for decision-making.
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter is head of department and scientific director of digitalization and digital association development at Diakonie Baden as well as associate professor at IU International University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on AI in healthcare and digital transformation in the social and healthcare sector.
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme is chief executive officer of Funartech, an AI startup that provides creative solutions to complex industrial problems by combining machine learning and applied mathematics. He is a strong proponent of hybrid methods and approaches, in particular the hybridization of machine learning and operations research.
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher is a former General Manager of Microsoft’s Startup Business Group, which oversees the innovation of Microsoft’s core businesses. He also holds a PhD in human-machine communication and AI from the University of St Andrews, and has experience operationalizing strategy, developing global award-winning products, building tools and guidance for high-tech startups at Responsible Innovation Labs, and working as a product strategist for AI21 Labs, a leading artificial intelligence and large language model startup.
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch is a policy fellow at MIT’s Blueprint Labs.
Tonny Huang
Tonny Huang
Manager at Kearney.
Betty Pio
Betty Pio
Partner at Kearney.
Keena Patel-Moran
Keena Patel-Moran
Partner at Kearney.