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Last Week in AI #132: High-risk AI applications, AI can't be granted patents

Ongoing debates about how to classifying high-risk AI applications, U.S. federal court rules that AI can't be treated as inventors under current law, and more!

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Sep 06, 2021
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The Fight to Define When AI Is ‘High Risk’

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In April, the European Union proposed the Artificial Intelligence Act, a large initiative to regulate how and which AI products can be used within the EU. One of its high profile proposal is to prohibit ‘high risk’ applications of AI such as law enforcement use of AI for facial recog…

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