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MIT’s report lists issues that AI has already been blamed for, and ones that may come in the future. It’s a “living” database of around 700 different types of AI harm, drawn from research papers and ...

On Wednesday, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) launched the AI Risk Repository, a database of more than 700 documented AI risks. According to CSAIL's release, the ...

Computers are already getting pretty good at deciphering human speech thanks to advancements in natural language processing (NLP), but so far most of these programs have been trained to understand ...

MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other problematic terms. The database was removed this week. MIT ...

Detecting a lag in that online transaction you're trying to finish? A project underway at MIT and Cornell University heralds performance improvements in database applications. As the researchers noted ...

For the last three decades or so, the big problem in using encryption hasn’t been whether strongly encrypted files can be cracked. The problem remains that to actually do anything with encrypted ...

A machine learning algorithm is only as good as the data it’s trained on. Unfortunately, a massive and popular training dataset from MIT taught a bunch of algorithms to use racist and misogynistic ...

Remember what it was like in the days before the internet, if you were trying to find out something specific? If you wanted know what flounders eat, for instance, you would have to physically go to ...