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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

If this is the case, then governments should provide incentives to firms for investing in AI and robotics systems. Public safety: Police are using artificial intelligence to collect and analyse huge volumes of data in order to spot patterns, uncover new leads, and solve criminal investigations (Revell, 2017). 2017, May 10).

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. AI Insurance Products and Services. As they have for natural catastrophes, insurers can also encourage public sector safeguards.

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11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

At the beginning of 2017 Experian predicted that the health care sector would be the most heavily targeted vertical industry. A March 2017 report from the Identity Theft Resource Center indicated that more than 25% of all data breaches were related to health care. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights.

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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

Some companies are exempt from the cap, namely nonprofit and government research institutions and those affiliated with institutions of higher learning. In the 2017 fiscal year, USCIS received approximately 236,000 petitions , up from 230,000 in the previous year. The quota is currently exhausted.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. Taken together, these three trends will drive dramatic changes in health care, regardless of government policies. Indeed, with the current government gridlock, the rapid development of and growing demand for new health care technologies may help policy makers chart the course forward.

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