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Worried about your firm’s AI ethics? These startups are here to help.
Rumman Chowdhury’s job used to involve a lot of translation. As the “responsible AI” lead at the consulting firm Accenture, she would work with clients struggling to understand their AI models. How did they know if the models...
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Banks need to strike the right balance for digital transformation
Every financial institution is looking to digital transformation to meet rising customer...
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A guide to being an ethical online investigator
As rioters stormed Capitol Hill on January 6, Theo—like many Americans—watched, dumbfounded and in...
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About the Pandemic Technology Project
As covid-19 began spreading around the world, an avalanche of new digital services and data-driven...
Read MoreThese five AI developments will shape 2021 and beyond
The year 2020 was profoundly challenging for citizens, companies, and governments around the world. As covid-19 spread, requiring far-reaching health and safety restrictions, artificial intelligence (AI) applications played a...
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2021 planning: New business models, big opportunity
When the pandemic threw the world into disarray in spring 2020, most organizations responded by...
Read MoreThe 11 biggest space missions of 2021 (and their chances of success)
Spaceflight in 2020 did not go as planned. Like nearly everything else in the world, space activity was hit hard by the pandemic. Last year we listed the seven space missions that we were most excited to see take flight...
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Our best illustrations of 2020
From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the...
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The biggest technology failures of 2020
This was a year we needed technology to save us. A pandemic raced over the land, there were...
Read MoreCurrent spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones.
A spacesuit is more like a miniature spacecraft you wear around your body than an item of clothing. It’s pressurized, it’s decked out with life support systems, and it’s likely to look pretty cool. But should the suit fail,...
Read More2020 has sucked—but there are some small silver linings
The consensus is that 2020 has been “the worst.” But there is reason to look back at this year and find the unexpected silver linings of quarantine, particularly when it comes to how we connect with other people. None of these...
Read MoreThe year deepfakes went mainstream
In 2018, Sam Cole, a reporter at Motherboard, discovered a new and disturbing corner of the internet. A Reddit user by the name of “deepfakes” was posting nonconsensual fake porn videos using an AI algorithm to swap celebrities’...
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