Race, COVID Mortality, and Simpson’s Paradox (by Dana Mackenzie)

Summary This post reports on the presence of Simpson’s paradox in the latest CDC data on coronavirus. At first glance, the data may seem to support the notion that coronavirus is especially dangerous to white, non-Hispanic people. However, when we take...

Study finds strong evidence for a causal link between long-term exposure to fine air particles and greater mortality in elderly Americans

A new analysis of 16 years of publicly accessible health data on 68.5 million Medicare enrollees provides broad evidence that long-term exposure to fine particles in the air – even at levels below current EPA standards – leads to increased...

Presentation of Miriam Lexmann: The world have learned hard lessons from China and should accept some sacrifices to maintain democratic values

Ms. Miriam Lexmann, MEP, co-chair of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, was the lead speaker of the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference, July 1, 2020, organized by the Boston Global Forum. She criticized the China regime abusing a...

Artificial intelligence: The dark matter of computer vision

What makes us humans so good at making sense of visual data? That’s a question that has preoccupied artificial intelligence and computer vision scientists for decades. Efforts at reproducing the capabilities of human vision have so far yielded results...

Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance – Initial ideas to discuss

Building a Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance is one of the concepts of the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, and of the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference. These are some initial ideas to be discussed...

AI Needs More Why

The father of Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning, Judea Pearl, published his Book of WHY: The New Science of Cause and Effect last year to suggest that the future of AI depends on building systems with notions of causality. It may seem obvious...

Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference – Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) – eg. Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Senator Kimberley Kitching, MEP Miriam Lexmann – will speak and dialog with political leaders and distinguished thinkers to build new alliances and new global...

The Rich Legacy of Alan Turing

As today is the birthday of Alan Turing, AIWS House introduces some writings about him. The article can be found here. The Rich Legacy of Alan Turing by Liat Clark and Ian Steadman, Wired UK Alan Turing achieved more in the space of a few decades than...

United Nations Charter Day Roundtable: The Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, and Intellectual Society

The livestream can be found here. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact: “We prepare to observe the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, we in the Academic Impact are particularly mindful of the opportunities, challenges and dangers...