2025-04-22 One-Minute Post

AI technology is challenging audio privacy, while businesses are using AI for personalization with a focus on transparency. The Trump administration has issued an executive order to develop AI systems free from ideological bias. UC Davis Health has developed an AI model called BE-FAIR to address bias in predictive care, and Meta’s anti-bias push is raising concerns.

Articles we found interesting:

1. Protecting audio privacy: Speech-filtering technology balances privacy and utility in smart devices link Highlight: While these methods are fairly effective at making conversations indecipherable to humans, generative AI has complicated matters. Speech recognition …
2. How AI personalization creates customized user experiences - TechTarget link Highlight: Businesses can drive revenue and boost user engagement with AI personalization techniques – if they also ensure transparency and data privacy.
3. Surveillance And Privacy Are Technology Reporter Kashmir Hill's Greatest Concerns link Highlight: Kashmir Hill, a features writer on the business desk at The New York Times, spoke about the promises and problems of artificial intelligence, …
4. Trump Administration Issues AI Memoranda and Executive Order with Government Contracts Impacts link Highlight: Executive Order 14179. Issued on Jan. 23, 2025, EO 14179 focuses on the development of "AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered …
5. UC Davis Health's BE-FAIR algorithm aims to fix bias in predictive care - Sacramento … link Highlight: UC Davis Health developed a custom AI model called BE-FAIR to identify patients most at risk of hospitalization and reduce care disparities.
6. Meta's move on AI bias raises risk, eyebrows - Axios link Highlight: Why it matters: Meta's anti-bias push appears to be an effort to cater to the right's war on "woke" AI and less about model neutrality, according to …

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