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Brian Hedden named co-associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

Brian Hedden PhD ’12 has been appointed co-associate dean of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) at MIT, a cross-cutting initiative in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, effective Jan. 16.Hedden is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, holding an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the Department […]

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Meeting the new ETSI standard for AI security

The ETSI EN 304 223 standard introduces baseline security requirements for AI that enterprises must integrate into governance frameworks. As organisations embed machine learning into their core operations, this European Standard (EN) establishes concrete provisions for securing AI models and systems. It stands as the first globally applicable European Standard for AI cybersecurity, having secured

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Allister Frost, a former Microsoft leader and expert on business transformation.

Allister Frost: Tackling workforce anxiety for AI integration success

Navigating workforce anxiety remains a primary challenge for leaders as AI integration defines modern enterprise success. For enterprise leaders, deploying AI is less a technical hurdle than a complex exercise in change management. The reality for many organisations is that, while algorithms offer efficiency, the human element dictates the speed of adoption. Data from the

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The Law Society: Current laws are fit for the AI era

As ministers push to loosen rules to speed up AI adoption, The Law Society argues that lawyers just need to know how current laws apply. The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) recently launched a call for evidence on a proposed ‘AI Growth Lab’. This cross-economy sandbox is designed to accelerate the deployment of

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MIT scientists investigate memorization risk in the age of clinical AI

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: “Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I

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Should we turn the internet off?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue worldThe internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face

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Frontier AI research lab tackles enterprise deployment challenges

Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have established a frontier AI research lab to overcome historic deployment challenges. Speed and scale have defined the current AI boom. But for enterprises, the primary obstacles to deployment are different: trust, accuracy, and lineage. Addressing these barriers, Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have announced a five-year partnership

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Can AI suffer?

TL;DR AI systems today cannot suffer because they lack consciousness and subjective experience, but understanding structural tensions in models and the unresolved science of consciousness points to the moral complexity of potential future machine sentience and underscores the need for balanced, precautionary ethics as AI advances. As artificial intelligence systems become more sophisticated, questions that

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The Great AI Pop: What Will We Call the First AI Bust?

TL;DR If the AI boom collapses in 2025 or 2026, it will not simply be remembered as an AI bubble. It will get a name. Likely future labels include The Great AI Pop, The First AI Bust, The AI Money Glitch, GPUgeddon, The Great Wrapper Extinction, AIgeddon, The AI Avalanche, and The First Agent Mass

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