Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, UK Policy Opportunities and Challenges

Author

Bunz; Mercedes ; Janciute; Laima

Year

2018

Publisher

University of Westminster Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-91153-481-5

Link

Last Update

08-Jun-2025

Keywords

Political Science ; Business

Description

Based on large amounts of data, computer systems have gained new abilities to perform tasks that so far required human intelligence, from image and speech recognition to decision-making or to automatic translation between languages. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) has already become widely used with wide-reaching economic, social and ethical implications. For that reason, inquiries into the ethical and social implications of current advances in AI are as urgent and essential as economic approaches.¹ The report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI), for which one of this brief’s authors (Dr Mercedes Bunz) gave oral evidence, is...