Essay: Who will write the rules for AI? How nations are racing to regulate artificial intelligence
FAN YANG and AUSMA BERNOT, look, in an article first published on The Conversation, at how states around the world are grappling with the regulation of articial intelligence technologies…
Tech bosses could face jail after UK Government backs down over online harm
London, UKReuters Tech bosses could be jailed in Britain if their platforms fail to protect children from online harm after the government agreed to toughen a proposed law to avoid the prospect of a first parliamentary defeat for the Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak faced losing a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday after […]
Tesla, Apple among firms accused of aiding child labour in Africa
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Five of the world’s largest tech companies have been accused of being complicit in the death of children in Africa forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and computers, in a landmark lawsuit. The legal complaint on behalf of 14 families from the Democratic Republic of […]
Getting better? More woman in tech but not at the top
LisbonThomson Reuters Foundation Technology firms are hiring more women and narrowing the gender gap, a poll by Europe’s largest technology conference found on Wednesday, but female leaders said the multi-trillion dollar industry was still failing to put them in its boardrooms. A poll of 600 women in tech by the Web Summit showed nearly half, […]