MIT Technology Review March 24, 2020
Karen Hao
The crisis has governments and companies scrambling to decide when it’s appropriate to lift data privacy protections and AI ethics guidelines.
Just a month ago the EU outlined its new
AI and data governance strategy, which, among other things, advocated data sovereignty and called for European AI to be trained only on European data to ensure its quality and ethical sourcing. The guidelines were lauded for their leadership in protecting data privacy and facilitating trustworthy AI. But
according to the Financial Times, the coronavirus pandemic is now forcing regulators to rethink them.
Such restrictions, if they worked as originally envisaged, would risk slowing the pace of progress as scientists rush to...
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