AI is everywhere. It is embedded in virtually every new product, from toasters to shoes and beyond. Gone are the days when we found AI only in future-forward software and tech products. AI is being leveraged far beyond the big tech companies. The AI we interact with today is being developed by teams in widely varied companies and […]
Data Literacy: A New Requirement for Consumers and Businesses
Did you know that only one-third of us can confidently understand, analyze, and argue with data? That’s the essential question posited by the Data Literacy Project, an organization that wants to “ignite discussion and develop the tools we need to shape a successful, data-literate society.” Achieving consumer Data Literacy at a mass scale is an ambitious […]
What Facebook and Big Tobacco Got Wrong (but AI Governance Can Still Get Right)
Click to learn more about author Anthony Habayeb. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress about abusive algorithms and AI referenced Big Tobacco’s enormous influence and fall in the latter half of the 20th century. What’s challenging about the comparison, however, is that smoking is unequivocally bad for you. AI governance offers great promise to enhance our […]
Data Science Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) is focused on addressing a broad range of challenges by promoting research and education in Data Science education, statistics, decision making, and the social sciences. It was launched simultaneously, in the Fall of 2016, with MIT’s new Minor in Statistics and Data Science, and is available to […]