Latest Artificial Intelligence Headlines
All the headlines from our Artificial Intelligence Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse
Dec 21 2023 // Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the pharmacy chain misused the technology to mistakenly tag...
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Be Named as Inventor for Patents: UK Top Court
Dec 20 2023 // Artificial intelligence programs can’t be named as an inventor for patents, the UK’s top court said in a crucial ruling that’s in line with decisions in the US and the European Union refusing to put...
Here’s What’s Next for the EU’s Landmark Artificial Intelligence Act
Dec 15 2023 // European Union countries and lawmakers last week agreed a provisional deal for artificial intelligence rules aimed at establishing guardrails for the rapid development of AI and setting a global standard in technology...
US Regulators Add Artificial Intelligence to Potential Financial System Risks
Dec 15 2023 // Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could create new risks for the U.S. financial system if the technology is not properly supervised, a panel of regulators warned on Thursday. The Financial Stability Oversight...
Allianz D&O Outlook: ESG Claims ‘Here to Stay’ and AI Rapping at the Door
Dec 14 2023 // While everyone may be talking about potential risks associated with generative artificial intelligence, a new directors & officers report from Allianz highlights a range of current concerns associated with...
Agency E&O Webinar: Panelists Discuss Changing Exposures, AI & More
Dec 13 2023 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. Insurance Journal gathered three experts to...
Meta Used Copyrighted Books for AI Training Despite Lawyers’ Warnings, Say Authors
Dec 13 2023 // Meta Platforms’ lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit...
Tech Update: Hiscox London Mkt, Google Collaborate to Boost Underwriting With AI
Dec 12 2023 // Hiscox, the specialist global insurer, has collaborated with Google Cloud to create the first AI-enhanced lead underwriting model in the London market insurance industry. The collaboration combines Hiscox London...
Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI
Dec 11 2023 // Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology. As part of negotiations with the...
European Union Agrees Landmark Deal Governing Use of Artificial Intelligence
Dec 11 2023 // Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments’ use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate AI systems such...
UK Data Protection Watchdog Warns Companies Over AI Use and Privacy
Dec 7 2023 // Britain’s data protection watchdog warned companies to consider people’s privacy rights whenever they use artificial intelligence (AI) or face not just fines but losing the public’s trust in the...
London’s Insurance, Finance Workers to See Biggest AI Impact: UK Report
Nov 29 2023 // Management consultants and City of London finance workers are among those most exposed to workplace changes ushered in by artificial intelligence, a new UK government report found, urging changes in schools and training...
US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement to Make AI ‘Secure by Design’
Nov 28 2023 // The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue...
Artificial Intelligence Not Main Cause of Recent Insurance Layoffs: AM Best
Nov 15 2023 // AM Best does not believe artificial intelligence is the main cause of recent insurance industry layoffs. In commentary released today, the credit rating agency wrote that “it is too soon to cite AI as the leading...
Putting AI to Work Within the ‘Digital Round Trip’: Applied Systems CEO
Nov 15 2023 // The data is out there. The challenge is how to amass it, standardize it and make it useful. Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Applied Systems, stopped by the On Point podcast with host Peter Aartrijk to talk about the future of data...
Alibaba’s Ant Receives Chinese Government Nod to Roll Out AI Services
Nov 7 2023 // Ant Group Co., the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., received approval from the Chinese government to roll out products powered by its large language model Bailing to the public. Bailing will be applied to...
Threat of Haywire Artificial Intelligence Prompts Calls for Development Pause, AXA Says
Oct 31 2023 // Governments are ill-prepared for the hazards brought on by artificial intelligence and development should be paused, according to a new survey of risk specialists by insurance company AXA SA. Only 7% of almost 3,500 risk...
Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Oct 30 2023 // President Joe Biden is directing the US government to take a sweeping approach to artificial intelligence regulation, his most significant action yet to rein in an emerging technology that has sparked both concern and...
Governments and Firms Should Spend More on AI Safety, Say Top Researchers
Oct 24 2023 // Artificial intelligence companies and governments should allocate at least one third of their AI research and development funding to ensuring the safety and ethical use of the systems, top AI researchers said in a paper on...
Music Publishers File Suit in Tennessee Against AI Company Over Song Lyrics
Oct 20 2023 // Oct 18 (Reuters) – Music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court this week, accusing it of misusing an...
