Alex Engler

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 21, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly - RC1DF544C360

Can AI model economic choices?

Alex Engler

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Acronym GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) designed on an iPhone screen. Montreal (Canada), July 28th, 2019.Sigle GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) forme avec les icones des applications mobiles. Montreal (Canada), le 28 juillet 2019.NO USE FRANCE

In Congress’s big tech hearing, look beyond ‘technology policy’

Alex Engler

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Calice Becker, a French master perfumer at Givaudan, interacts with 'Carto', an Artificial Intelligence powered tool, in Paris, France February 10, 2020. Picture taken February 10, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

The importance and opportunities of transatlantic cooperation on AI

Joshua P. Meltzer, Cameron F. Kerry, and Alex Engler

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Photo: eugenesergeev/iStock; Mathew Schwartz/Unsplash

Why AI systems should disclose that they’re not human

Alex Engler

Fast Company February 23, 2020

Fever detection is a plausible use case of AI, but it will take far more time, effort, and money to build systems that are robust enough to trust.PHOTOGRAPH: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

Artificial Intelligence Won’t Save Us From Coronavirus

Alex Engler

Wired April 26, 2020

Illustration picture shows a smartphone with Covid-19 app in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on April 19, 2020. The World Health Organisation says tracking infected people, and tracing and alerting their contacts, are vital if the disease is to be kept under control after lockdown. The government says it has received 750 applications from companies to co-operate on a 'corona app' and will draw up a shortlist over the weekend with the aim of producing a draft proposal on April 21. The app is expected to use Bluetooth technology on mobile phones to see who has been in contact with an infected person. Privacy campaigners are concerned that if the app is rolled out too quickly it will not be secure or sufficiently anonymous and have questioned its effectiveness. The governments target is for 60% of people to use the app, but in Singapore, where a voluntary app was introduced, take-up is around 20%. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

Artificial Intelligence Won’t Save Us From Coronavirus

Alex Engler

Wired Sunday, April 26, 2020

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks about a chart showing discharges verses new covid-19 hospitalizations during his Saturday, April 18, 2020, press conference at War Memorial in Trenton, NJ, on the State's response to the coronavirus.Governor Murphy Press Conference

A call for a new generation of COVID-19 models

Alex Engler

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Webinar: Public health surveillance, AI bias, and risks to privacy in the fight against COVID-19

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Online-only

What all policy analysts need to know about data science

Alex Engler

Monday, April 20, 2020

"We’re seeing a huge number of claims around how AI is being used to fight or aid the fight against coronavirus, but it’s hard to tell which of those are really the valuable applications."

Alex Engler Recode Monday, April 13, 2020