Morgan Stanley Hires Ex-SAC Capital Artificial Intelligence Expert

Morgan Stanley, which aims to expand its use of artificial intelligence, has hired Warren Center Director Michael Kearns to help guide the effort. He will lead Morgan Stanley’s AI research and offer advice on deploying the technology for projects across the company.

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Machine Learning Researchers Try to Improve Working Conditions for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Workers

As a way of giving back to the platform he uses for research, Chris Callison-Burch developed a Google Chrome plug-in that helps Turk workers pick out better-paying tasks. Callison-Burch and collaborators also analyzed data they gathered from the plug-in’s users to reveal trends in Turk worker earnings, published in a recent paper.

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G.D.P.R., a New Privacy Law, Makes Europe World’s Leading Tech Watchdog

“The E.U. is more advanced than the U.S. in protecting consumer privacy, and what happens there could be a harbinger of the future,” said Warren Center Director Michael Kearns in a New York Times article.

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Shivani Agarwal: Looking at Machine Learning from All Angles

It is now an everyday occurrence to see customized recommendations while shopping online, and uncannily personalized sidebar ads while browsing a website. Both of these marketing tools are powered by machine learning, a field of study that extends to many other parts of society as well.

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Penn’s new CIS course will teach students technical skills to combat ethical breaches

Michael Kearns and Ani Nenkova have been developing a course, tentatively titled “Science of Data Ethics,” that they hope to offer to undergraduate students in the spring of the 2018-2019 academic year. The class will focus on ethical issues such as privacy and discrimination in machine learning.

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The “FATE” of Technology: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics

On October 17th, 2018, we gathered to celebrate five years of the Warren Center with a symposium on "The "FATE" of Technology: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics." View recordings and images from the event.

Warren Center Affiliate Profile- Bo Waggoner

What do website ads, medical treatment options, weather predictions, and qualifying for a loan all have in common? Find out in this profile of Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow Bo Waggoner.

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