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JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Charlette N’Guessan Desiree loved maths and science as a student in Ivory Coast, but never imagined she would one day use her problem-solving savvy to develop facial recognition technology more adept at identifying and verifying African faces.
Her company, BACE Group, hopes its artificial intelligence (AI) software will be used across the continent - helping universities to verify students for financial services, banks to sign up new clients and security firms to fight crime.
N’Guessan Desiree, 27, said there would be less suspicion of tech created “by Africans, for Africans”, especially given concerns that Western-designed systems are more prone to errors when identifying non-White faces.
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The World Economic Forum announces today the launch of the Global AI Action Alliance (GAIA)
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BOSTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As AI and data increasingly influence our individual lives and shape the fabric of our shared future, questions about how to ensure these tools benefit humanity have never been more urgent.
Today, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation is announcing that it will double its groundbreaking investments in data science and AI grantmaking in 2021 with a new commitment of $40 million and introduce new initiatives to accelerate opportunity and innovation in the development of inclusive, ethical data and AI. We sit at the frontier of the digital age with a set of choices about the future of these powerful tools, said Foundation President Vilas Dhar. Will it be a future where control remains in the hands of a few to benefit the elite? Or a future where we all participate in the co-creation of AI and data that solves our greatest global challenges and makes our individual lives better? Our 2021 commitments aim to
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After the company’s 2020 call for Precision Regulation of AI, Arvind announced on this panel that IBM will make its approach to and expertise in accountable AI Ethics available through the Alliance. IBM is contributing a number of open source AI ethics technology toolkits, as well as the governance structure it uses to evaluate applications of data and technology in a way that is centralized and accountable. This includes the structure, workflows and approach to