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Not a panel in Austin goes by without mentioning Artificial Intelligence in all its forms. Amy Webb , who presented her Future Trends at SXSW19 , sums up this year that AI is not one of the trends, but an integral part of each of the trends. Technical possibilities and ethical necessities rub shoulders in the conferences, with AI that is a little human, but not too much. “ Users who communicate with an intelligent machine always want to feel like they are talking to a machine , ” emphasizes Aleksandra Przegalinska, a researcher at MIT. This would be the only way to build trust with machines. One of the major topics around AI ethics was also the search for a solution to AI bias. How can we avoid discrimination in a world driven by AI?

Already by understanding how AI works., who has iceland cell phone number list just published her book “ Artificial Unintelligence, How Computers Misunderstood the World ” (highly recommended reading), reminds us that AI is not a magical robotic system, but simple mathematics that must be mastered and used wisely.



All the speakers on the “ AI and the future of Journalism ” panel also stressed the importance of education on these subjects so that users understand how algorithms work and the importance of data protection. Important questions to ask around the arrival of autonomous cars (whose date is increasingly pushed back due to a lack of ethical response), and all the more relevant with the tech giants who are monopolizing the Health market .