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TV News & Videos

October 31, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Creating and Spreading Election Disinformation

With less than two weeks until the election, Anne Makovec examines election disinformation and A.I.'s role in spreading it. She also covers Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump's campaign efforts.

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How will Harris and Vance do with the Silicon Valley’s tech scene

July 26, 2024

How will Harris and Vance do with the Silicon Valley’s tech scene

CBS News Bay Area anchor Elizabeth Cook asks UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor Olaf Groth, PhD, which candidate will get support from Silicon Valley, amid Vice President Kamala Harris has announced her bid for the White House and has appeared to fend off any challengers for the Democratic nomination.

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A.I. fuels surge in energy demand

July 9, 2024

A.I. fuels surge in energy demand

Olaf discusses how our already strained power grid will handle the increased energy demand from AI advancements with CBS News Bay Area anchor Elizabeth Cook.

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Three key themes from the WEF's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2024

July 1, 2024

Three key themes from the WEF's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2024

Olaf breaks down the three key themes from the World Economic Forum's AMNC24 in Dalian, China: AI and SciTech, China's economic development, and U.S.-China relations.

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Articles & Press Releases

April 9, 2024

Cambrian Futures Receives Fifth Data-Privacy Patent, Announces Distinguished Board of Advisers

Cambrian Futures & Labs received its fifth U.S. patent for a data privacy platform designed to control and monetize data access transparently. Amidst rising data privacy concerns and legislation interest, this innovation aims to balance data utilization for growth with ensuring creators' data ownership and privacy. Additionally, Cambrian announced a distinguished Board of Advisers to guide its strategy in the emerging-tech economy.

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September 19, 2018

A Magna Carta for inclusivity and fairness in the global AI Economy

Machine meritocracy is here. Will we survive as we are or is there a need for a new Magna Carta? Article by Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito

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September 19, 2018

Explainability of AI output: Revisiting our understanding of morality

DARPA researchers want to know how and why machine learning algorithms get it wrongCertainly, there are some very detrimental consequences of inexplicability. What is the morality of in/transparency? In which domains do we need public or multi-stakeholder transparency to mitigate errors, biases, abuse or manipulation, etc.? Conversely, are there areas where it's justifiable that explanatory functions should be in the hands of only one party? - Public health decisions for which mass panics are a risk, individual or group identity issues where psychological tensions could arise, competitive decisions in corporate strategy, national security or intel analysis, crime investigations, international trade negotiations, dating / trading / shopping agents, personal bouncer bots, etc? Are the rules for the AI-age different than in pre-AI era, because it penetrates our lives more deeply, pervasively, and with more 2nd and 3rd order unintended consequences? Check the full article here.

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Ein Sieg der Hollywood-Gewerkschaften hilft uns allen

Wenn unsere Daten tatsächlich das Lebenselixier der digitalen Wirtschaft sind und wir mehr davon an allen möglichen Orten haben wollen, um unser Leben reicher, sicherer und bequemer zu machen, brauchen wir diese speziellen globalen digitalen Eigentumsrechte.

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