Humanising AI

Artificial Intelligence is going to have a huge impact on our lives, so we need to understand it better. Who are the people and what are the processes behind AI?

8 stories since 07 October 2019 · Follow with RSS

Colour photograph of a woman in a pink suit standing next to a computer.

Algorithms that run our lives are racist and sexist. Meet the women trying to fix them

Gif illustration of a figure sitting before a computer, his brain connected to it, watching a screen where images flicker by rapidly.

Algorithms are biased, but so are people. We need to decide which bias we prefer

Old black and white photo of a woman checking if she has something in her eye in a mirror, photographed from the back of the mirror.

An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state)

Photo of nine similar silver statues of a woman sitting on her knees with her hands on her back

When artificial intelligence lost in translation is

Photo of a blue tube on the left, throwing a small blue ball onto a white, round platform held in place by a blue string. The blue string is whirled around three wooden circular pegs, handing in various places on a vertical, rectangular white wooden board with holes in it. The string is connected on the right to the nozzle of a blue spray bottle. The blue and white kitchen checked kitchen towel hanging to the right of the picture has a blue spray stain on it.

A little less automation, a little more friction, please

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AI-generated portrait of a young girl.

Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence. But what is it?