House Subcommittee Urges Greater Investment in A.I.; China Fears Propel Spending
Federal investment in artificial intelligence (AI) research and development nearly topped $500 billion as far back as 2015. But the House subcommittee on information technology believes that even with the expenditure of that much money won’t be enough to maintain the...Data Science Champions Needed in Government
Mathematician D.J. Patil, the first chief data scientist for the US Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama, declared that city governments need the presence of data science champions in order to make smarter, more informed policy decisions. Here...UK Junks ‘Right to Explanation’ Over Algorithm Use
The UK government has quietly squashed a plan that would have required government departments to create a process by which ordinary citizens could question policy decisions aided by the use of “black box” algorithms. The internal processes of these algorithms are...Data Science: You Don’t Always Have to Follow the Herd
Just because your competitors are falling over each other in hiring data scientists doesn’t mean you have to grab the next one that walks in off the street. Stephen Gatchell, head of data governance at Bose Corporation, says that organizations must first figure out...Listen to Our Civic Development Podcast!
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