— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A year has lapsed since the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition created history by ditching the incumbent Barisan Nasional government for the very first time in 61 years. May 10, 2018 was the day Malaysians can never forget. It was the dawn of…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News As we walked off the aeroplane in Hong Kong in November last year, on the eve of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, we had no idea that we were stepping into the epicentre of an unfolding human drama. Just…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News San Francisco State University has developed a graduate program in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics. According to an article at the Wall Street Journal (registration, but no subscription, required to view), the program is one of the first of its kind, and aims to educate graduate…
Just a week after it was announced, Google’s new AI ethics board is already in trouble. The board, founded to guide “responsible development of AI” at Google, would have had eight members and met four times over the course of 2019 to consider concerns about Google’s AI program. Those concerns include how AI can enable authoritarian…
Last week, Google announced that it is creating a new external ethics board to guide its “responsible development of AI.” On the face of it, this seemed like an admirable move, but the company was hit with immediate criticism. Researchers from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and top universities objected to the board’s inclusion of Kay Coles James,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News In January 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman issued an order to allocate 40 acres to each freedman, the black ministers who lobbied for the policy envisioned vibrant, self-governed black agrarian communities dotting the Southern countryside. Unfortunately, President Andrew Johnson’s…
