Artificial Intelligence
Building the Public’s Trust in AI Is Key to Coming Guidance, White House Official Says
The administration’s assistant director for artificial intelligence shared details about an in-the-works memo to modernize agencies’ regulatory approaches to the emerging tech.
Digital Government
OMB Touts Money and Time Saved From Regulatory Cuts, Eliminating Busywork
President’s management agenda update highlights 100 “burden-reducing” initiatives.
Ideas
The Case for Commercial Solutions in Government
The applications an agency is looking for are very likely already on the market, cost-effective and field-proven.
Ideas
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Raises Legal and Ethical Concerns
Policymakers should establish a number of safeguards around AI, much as they did when genetic testing became commonplace.
Ideas
Don't Ban New Technologies – Experiment with Them Carefully
Asking for forgiveness instead of permission has its place.
Ideas
Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Hard Given Their Bewildering Complexity
Whether you’re an individual, business, or government, if you need the internet, you need their services.
Emerging Tech
Industry Group Asks U.S. CTO and FAA Administrator to Focus on Large Drone Regulations
The Federal Aviation Administration is working on regulations for small drone flights but has yet to take up unmanned systems over 55 pounds.
Emerging Tech
Why Electric Scooters Companies Are Getting Serious About Safety
Lime has joined rival Bird in establishing a safety advisory board tasked with helping the e-scooter industry shape local regulations—and shake its risky reputation.
Ideas
To Fight Online Disinformation, Reinvigorate Media Policy
Disinformation, toxic speech, and polarization online are a result opaque digital information systems. The fix? We can start by updating the approach of media policy for the new environment.
Ideas
How to Stop Fearing AI
The latest cloud of fear emanating is that artificial intelligence will pass along or even amplify the biases and inequities that have plagued our society for decades.
Ideas
The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It
With enemies like these, the industry is going to need some friends.
Emerging Tech
Why Aren’t Cities Getting Ready for Autonomous Vehicles?
Self-driving vehicle technology may be coming, but most city leaders aren’t doing much to anticipate our robot-car future, a new study warns.
Artificial Intelligence
Developing Standards For AI Won’t Go Like Past Technologies
Top experts and officials working on artificial intelligence say global competition has set the stage for a very different standards discussion than with past technologies.
Ideas
Can One Year of GDPR Teach the U.S. Anything on Privacy?
Technology experts reflect on how GDPR changed companies' approaches to data.
Ideas
Facebook’s Dystopian Definition of ‘Fake’
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
Emerging Tech
Report: Smart Transportation Systems Pose ‘Profound’ Privacy Risks
Governments are collecting lots of data on the people using roads, trains and buses, and without proper oversight, that information could easily be misused.
Policy
Federal Infrastructure Funding is Good, but Local Governments Want Flexibility Too
Accessing federal funds for infrastructure projects is much too difficult, county leaders say. With reauthorization of the FAST Act on the table, they want a bigger say in how money can be spent.
Ideas
The End of Cyberspace
Internet theorists and companies once declared themselves free of nations and governance, but that’s all over now.
Policy
As Feds Expand Guest Worker Visas, Many Companies Say More Still Needed
Competition is stiff for businesses seeking H-2B visas. And the worker shortages have been felt all over the country, in a range of industries.
Digital Government