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    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      FT Series
      Tech Champions

      The Financial Times invited readers to name European companies using new technology to meet the business challenges of 2022 — from the Ukraine conflict to the energy and climate crises. Here are the shortlisted businesses, and this year’s winners

    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      Deepmind Technologies Ltd
      DeepMind co-founder leaves Google for venture capital firm

      Some staff had criticised Mustafa Suleyman for an overly aggressive management style

    • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
      Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
      Why ethics must be built into tech development

      Business schools should teach that responsibility need not hamper innovation

    • Monday, 11 October, 2021
      Anjana Ahuja
      A global AI bill of rights is desperately needed

      Algorithmic decision-making has long put technology first, with due diligence an afterthought

    • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
      US Department of Defense
      US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief

      Nicolas Chaillan speaks of ‘good reason to be angry’ as Beijing heads for ‘global dominance’

    • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Machines are not ready to take over just yet

      Labour shortages will spur further automation — but not everywhere

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance

      They’re fighting back against the growing use of high-tech monitoring by taking increasingly fringe counter-measures

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special Report
      TechFT: Big Tech & Ethics

      Technology is transforming societies around the world, but governments and the companies behind that technology have struggled with ethics and morality, from self-regulation to surveillance to AI bias. How can we understand these complex problems — and begin to find better answers?

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Silicon Valley reboots its relationship with the US military

      Some tech groups are stepping back from becoming too ‘interconnected’, while others are stepping in

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      In charts: facial recognition technology — and how much do we trust it?

      The global market is growing, but technical bias against women and people of colour is cause for concern

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Critics raise alarm over Big Tech’s most powerful tools

      Artificial intelligence has been honed by new techniques of machine learning to maximum effect

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Online privacy: a fraught philosophical debate

      Discourse tends to be western-centric — that is a problem for the rest of the world, say academics

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Facebook’s Oversight Board: an imperfect solution to a complex problem

      The social media platform’s self-policing model is an attempt to stave off regulators, say critics

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Frederick Mostert
      Your day in court: social media needs a system of due process

      Platforms must apply the principles of procedural fairness and natural justice in a standardised and universal way

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Rana el Kaliouby: ‘We should think of ourselves as stewards of technology’

      The CEO of ‘artificial emotional intelligence’ start-up Affectiva says the pandemic changed attitudes to machine learning

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Q&A: How is Big Tech dealing with ethical problems?

      FT correspondents Madhumita Murgia and Kiran Stacey answered your questions on the use of artificial intelligence by companies

    • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Genius Makers, by Cade Metz — the tribal war in AI

      A guide to an intellectual counter-revolution that is already transforming the world

    • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Building trust in AI systems is essential

      Google and others have to prove the technology can be used for good

    • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Blame not the robot but the human behind it

      Building public trust in artificial intelligence systems is essential

    • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
      Technology
      Why business cannot afford to ignore tech ethics

      Using new technology without weighing social impact could cost companies dearly

    • Monday, 3 June, 2019
      FTfmPeter Montagnon
      A tech challenge? Fear not, many AI issues boil down to ethics

      Machines may be complex but they cannot make qualitative or moral judgments

    • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
      Artificial intelligence
      How governments are beginning to regulate AI

      The first international accord on AI development comes as countries grapple with the future of governance of the technology

    • Monday, 29 April, 2019
      News in-depthArtificial intelligence
      How Big Tech is struggling with the ethics of AI

      Companies criticised for overruling and even dissolving ethics boards

    • Tuesday, 20 November, 2018
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Google has a responsibility to protect DeepMind data

      The transfer of the UK health unit to California raises privacy concerns

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