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When “Greedy” Is Good
Tech companies conduct hundreds of online experiments each day. A greedy algorithm might improve efficiency.
Designing Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
Experts critiqued smart cities, agtech, blockchain, and policing during Stanford's first Technology and Racial Equity...
A New Approach To Mitigating AI’s Negative Impact
Stanford launches an Ethics and Society Review Board that asks researchers to take an early look at the impact of their...
Stanford Scholars Build AI-Based Tool To Scrutinize COVID Research
CoronaCentral sorts through mountains of pandemic-related articles to help scholars and policymakers understand COVID’s...
AI for Predicting COVID-19 Prognosis
A Stanford team used quantitative image analysis and data fusion to predict COVID severity in patients. The approach...
Modeling How People Make Causal Judgments
By providing quantitative predictions of how people think about causation, Stanford researchers offer a bridge between...
HAI Fellow Michelle Spektor: How the History of Biometrics Informs Its Future
Israel’s and the UK’s decisions regarding biometric ID reveal major differences in how countries and social movements...
Agile NLP for Clinical Text: COVID-19 and Beyond
With Trove, weakly supervised NLP of clinical text is fast, adaptive, shareable, and high performing.
Susan Liautaud: We Must Democratize Ethics and Rethink Greedy Business Models
The ethics expert discusses problematic incentive structures, rising employee activism, and the need for board...
Can AI Create Faster, More Reliable MRI Scans?
Researchers compare traditional image reconstruction approaches with two promising AI techniques.
Stanford Researchers: AI Technologies Must Not Exacerbate Health Care Disparities
Medical devices employing AI stand to benefit everyone in society, but if left unchecked, the technologies could...
Software Turns ‘Mental Handwriting’ into On-screen Words
Artificial intelligence, interpreting data from a device placed at the brain’s surface, enables people who are paralyzed...