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Microsoft Viva holds the greatest potential to demonstrate the power of algorithms and AI within the enterprise.
Viva Insights, for example, aims to help firms better support staff, addressing both wellbeing and productivity. The initial announcement promises: Viva Insights for individuals help employees stay connected with their colleagues and protect time for regular breaks, focused work, and learning â¦. Viva Insights can help a manager see if their team is at risk of burnout and provide recommendations like encouraging your team to turn off notifications, set boundaries in their calendar, and set daily priorities to focus on what matters most.
These are big claims. Even more so when you consider how varied job roles are within firms, and how different work cultures can be between firms (and countries). This product aims to literally shape how people feel. The potential dangers are self-evident.
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What Lawyers Want Everyone to Know About AI Liability
There are more discussions about AI ethics and responsible AI these days, but companies need to be clear about potential AI liability issues.
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As artificial intelligence moves deeper into enterprises, companies have been responding with AI ethics principles and values and responsible AI initiatives. However, translating lofty ideals into something practical is difficult, mainly because it s something new that needs to be built into DataOps, MLOps, AIOps and DevOps pipelines.
There s a lot of talk about the need for transparent or explainable AI. However, less discussed is accountability, which is another ethical consideration. When something goes wrong with AI, who s to blame? Its creators, users, or those who authorized its use?
As Google Fires Second AI Ethics Researcher, Dispute Over Diversity Grows
The two researchers had called for greater diversity and inclusion among Google s research staff and expressed concern that the firm was starting to censor papers critical of its products.
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World20/Feb/2021
Alphabet Inc’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its December dismissal of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru.