SHIPT’S ALGORITHM SQUEEZED GIG WORKERS. THEY FOUGHT BACK When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer
N EARLY 2020, gig workers for the app-based delivery company Shipt noticed something strange about their paychecks. The company, which had been acquired by Target in 2017 for US $550 million, offered same-day delivery from local stores. Those deliveries were made by Shipt…
Optimizing datagovernance with theData & Trust AllianceData ProvenanceStandards
Building trustworthy AI depends on trustworthy data. As IBM builds AI systems for a greater breadth of use cases, we need to determine whether the increasingly large volumes of data that train and test these models align with our high…
Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?
Google’s AI Overviews search tool may not be following the best policies Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have…
Forecasting transformative AI: what’s the burden of proof?
This is one of 4 posts summarizing hundreds of pages of technical reports focused almost entirely on forecasting one number: the year by which transformative AI will be developed.1 By “transformative AI,” I mean “AI powerful enough to bring us…