Stronger legislation than the European Commission envisages is needed to regulate AI and protect workers. Aida Ponce Del Castillo* Artificial Intelligence (AI) is of strategic importance for the European Union: the European Commission frequently affirms that ‘artificial intelligence with a purpose, can make Europe a world leader’. Recently, the commissioner …
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Egypt Independent President of Egypt’s Ain Shams University, Mahmoud al-Matini and the Dean of the Faculty of Computers and Information at the university Najwa Badr witnessed a test run of ‘Shams’, the university’s first robot nurse, on Tuesday. Students from the university’s Faculty of Computer and Information studies built ‘Shams’ …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Amr Talaat, announced the launch of a National platform in the field of artificial intelligence. The announcement was made at the fourth session of the National Council for Artificial Intelligence gathering on Sunday. “The platform includes the National AI strategy; covering …
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Egypt Today The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology signed an MoU with South Korea’s Pusan National University, on Tuesday, to enrol Egyptian students in a master’s program in artificial intelligence within ‘Digital Egypt Builders Initiative’ (DEBI). The initiative, which was launched in 2020, features a one-year program offering …
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Sherif Makhlouf* As the digital economy develops, governments are using technological advances to build better cities. Cities have a lot of potentials to become more liveable, thanks to the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) network. Governments will use analytics to add value for their citizens as more things become linked and …
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Egypt Independent Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has signed an MoU with French tech giant ‘Thales’ on Wednesday. The MoU aims to further develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in Egypt. “The agreement comes as a part of the ministry’s National AI Strategy, that seeks to fortify the …
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Egypt Today The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology signed a cooperation protocol to upgrade the agricultural technology infrastructure over two years. The most important step is the introduction of artificial intelligence to measure the impact of climate change, and the rationalization …
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Artificial intelligence, usually thought of as substituting human endeavour, should be conceived as a way of enhancing it for all. Miapetra Kumpula-Natri We are witnessing another industrial revolution, a digital one. Rapidly evolving technology, superfast connections such as 5G, the massive amount of data this connectivity generates, and artificial intelligence …
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Paul Mason bemoans how ‘Brexit’ has left the UK a beached whale in a world in need of technological regulation driven by European values. Paul Mason I was on a public Zoom call last week with senior Conservative MPs who have decided to get tough on China. Until last year …
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AI might seem neutral and technical, but it poses a differential challenge to female jobs and can be imbued with insidious gender biases. Juliane Bir Digitalisation is encroaching further and further into all our lives in ways of which we are scarcely aware. Algorithms and artificial intelligence guide a vast range of society’s choices …
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