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Industry Alliance Outlines Key Liability Risk Considerations in Insuring AI

Jun 6 2023 // Artificial intelligence and its uses are a hot topic these days. Some benefits of AI include efficiency in time and resources, but what happens when an AI-related error or failure occurs? Liability insurance relating to...

Top AI CEOs, Experts Raise ‘Risk of Extinction’ From AI

May 31 2023 // Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI,” which they urged policymakers to equate at par...

EEOC Warns Employers to Check AI Workplace Monitoring Tools for Bias

May 26 2023 // The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven “bossware” tools that closely track the whereabouts, keystrokes and productivity of workers...

Microsoft Chief Says Deep Fakes are Biggest AI Concern

May 26 2023 // Microsoft President Brad Smith said Thursday that his biggest concern around artificial intelligence was deep fakes, realistic looking but false content. In a speech in Washington aimed at addressing the issue of how best...

White House Takes New Steps to Study AI Risks, Determine Impact on Workers

May 24 2023 // The White House said on Tuesday it would ask workers how their employers use artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor them, as it allocates federal investments in the technology, which is expected to change the nature of...

How Much Should Insurers Trust AI Chatbots?

May 24 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Whether it’s underwriting, claims or customer service, it seems that artificial intelligence is top of mind for the insurance industry right now. William Bennett, partner at law firm...

Governments Race to Regulate AI Tools

May 22 2023 // Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps...

Optimizing Agency Relationships: A Data-Driven Approach to Premium Growth

May 22 2023 // The reported demise of the independent insurance agency as a sales and distribution channel has been greatly exaggerated. Over the course of a decade or more of predictions about the growth of the direct-to-consumer...

Washington Is Determined to Govern AI, but How?

May 15 2023 // U.S. lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington’s attention, consensus is far from certain. Interviews with a U.S. senator,...

World’s Governments Race to Regulate AI Tools

May 12 2023 // Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree on laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps...

Hackers Aim to Find Flaws in AI

May 12 2023 // No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence chatbot – trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene. But now...

Legislation to Govern AI Takes Another Step in Europe

May 11 2023 // European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, following a crunch vote on Thursday where they agreed tougher draft legislation. The European...

AI, Ransomware, Tech Burnout Biggest Takeaways from RIMS’ Riskworld

May 10 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The 2023 RIMS’ Riskworld conference took place last week in Atlanta, and on this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast, two guests shared the biggest takeaways from the conference this...

AI Pioneer Says its Threat to World May Be ‘More Urgent’ Than Climate Change

May 8 2023 // Artificial intelligence could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the...

How AI Could Revolutionize Healthcare – and Risks to Consider

May 8 2023 // Not a day goes by that a new way to use artificial intelligence (AI) fails to make the daily headlines. AI-powered tools seem to be making their mark on every business sector, including the healthcare industry. AI...

Insurer Group Concerned Over FIO Climate-Related Data Collection Effort

May 4 2023 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies is airing concerns over what the group calls a “duplicative data call” issued by the Federal Insurance Office on climate change. The concerns are being...

Informed Decisions, Better Experiences: Realizing Data-Driven Efficiencies with SubmissionIQ

May 2 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Insurance Quantified. Perspectives from the Underwriting Desk Samantha Cowley, Director of Underwriting Operations at the International Transportation & Marine Agency (ITMA),...

G-7 Nations Should Adopt ‘Risk-Based’ Regulation on Artificial Intelligence: Ministers

May 1 2023 // Group of Seven advanced nations should adopt “risk-based” regulation on artificial intelligence, their digital ministers agreed on Sunday, as European lawmakers hurry to introduce an AI Act to enforce rules on...

Supreme Court YouTube Decision Could Shape Protections for ChatGPT and AI

Apr 25 2023 // When the U.S. Supreme Court decides in the coming months whether to weaken a powerful shield protecting internet companies, the ruling also could have implications for rapidly developing technologies like artificial...

Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say

Apr 20 2023 // Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool. One worker’s conclusion: Bard was “a pathological liar,” according to screenshots of the...