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Siri’s evil sister. When the Dutch public service steals your data
“System Risk Indication” (SyRI) deployed by the dutch government for automatically detecting social benefit fraud. The program was shut down due to a severe lack in transparency and unproportional collection of data. This demonstrates how automating public services fails, when not properly implemented.
Myth: AI will kill us all!
AI won’t kill us in the form of a time-travelling humanoid robot with an Austrian accent. But:…
Myth: What you do with AI in the bedroom is your own thing
More and more AI systems are being used as personal assistants, also in the bedroom and for…
Why, AI?
Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI). But how does it change society? And how can we use it to help society? For that, we need to understand how AI works and how we can make it work for us. We need to get this right, because there is so much to get wrong. This is why we have put together this online learning space. We hope that with “Why, AI?” you learn a little more about how AI impacts the world. And how we need to change AI before it changes us…
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