Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Debunking a Myth About Innovation and Standards
By Greg Slater, Vice-President, Policy and Technical Affairs and Earl Nied, Program Director, Standards and Intellectual Property Rights Everyone knows that a great idea means nothing if it never turns into a reality. This sentiment forms the core of Steve Jobs’ famed maxim, “Real artists ship!” However, a myth persists in some patent policy circles that a clear distinction supposedly exists between “innovator”...
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Singapore, U.S. Jointly Promote Cross-Border Data Flow
Intel has long urged governments to promote access to data. Singapore and the U.S. are both walking the talk. On February 6, 2020, officials from Singapore’s Monetary Authority and U.S. Department of Treasury convened in Singapore to discuss the importance of the free-flow of data across international borders, specifically with respect to financial services (FinTech). The two countries ultimately issued...
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Nivruti Rai announces Intel’s support for the Government of India’s Global AI Summit to drive towards a global AI ecosystem that is “Innovative, Trusted and Inclusive”
By Derek Waxman (Global Director, Artificial Intelligence Policy) and Ananthanarayanan Shanmugam (Director, India Government Affairs & Public Policy) The Government of India will host a Global AI Summit, to be held in New Delhi on April 11th & 12th, 2020. This invitation-only event will convene leaders from around the world who share a common interest in utilizing the potential...
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Towards a European strategy for AI in Healthcare
Leading to 2020 several European countries have launched their national AI strategies, the European Commission put forward a European approach to Artificial Intelligence, a Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence "Made in Europe", laid out the path for Building Trust in Human Centric Artificial Intelligence and set up a High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) which presented their Policy...
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AI brings hope in solving India’s Healthcare Challenges
By Mario Romao and Dr. Ramanathan Sethuraman Artificial Intelligence continues to make headlines all over the World, with nations launching AI Strategies, devising policies to bring AI benefits to the economy. Invariably, these strategies highlight the potential of AI to meet the challenges that healthcare systems face to ensure timely, high quality access to care for their citizens. And in...
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Towards an AI-Ready Society – with a glimpse into healthcare AI
On October 2nd in Tokyo, Adobe and Intel hosted the event “Towards an AI-Ready Society for improving our lives” with the patronage of the US Embassy in Japan. Japan was one of the first countries developing an AI strategy, and creating detailed guidance on “Social principles of Human-centric AI”, “AI R&D Principles” and “AI Utilization Principles”. Japan has also brought...
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Reimagining Public Data to Advance AI: Maximizing Insights from Federal Data
The U.S. Federal Data Strategy is well-aligned with Intel’s recommendations that new regulatory initiatives should be comprehensive and technology-neutral, support the free flow of data, and promote access to data while liberating data responsibly. Intel has been, and remains, committed to helping accelerate federal agencies’ responses to make their datasets publicly available, unleashing innovative, trusted, and inclusive AI. Pragmatically Sorting...
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Innovation, Automation, & Global Public Policy Trends
By Trish Damkroger, VP/GM Extreme Computing Group & Clifton Roberts, Global Director Cloud & Data Policy According to an Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) review of over 58 countries, governments around the world are dealing with technology that is evolving faster than the speed of policy development and regulation. Citizen concerns like...
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Unlocking US Government Data for Social Good
By Derek Waxman (Global Policy Director, Artificial Intelligence), and Chloe Autio (AI & Privacy Policy Analyst) Earlier this year, the OPEN (Open, Public, Electronic, Necessary) Government Data Act was signed into law. Primarily, the act mandates that US government data be made publicly available in machine readable format and that government agencies must also appoint Chief...
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Intel Speaks with Canada’s CIO about AI, Data, & Cloud
By Clifton Roberts, Global Director of Cloud & Data Policy On July 16, Mr. Alex Benay, Canada’s Chief Information Officer, joined David Hoffman and Intel’s Governments, Markets, & Trade Group for its inaugural Virtual Speaker Series where he outlined his vision for Canada’s continued evolution into a global digital economy. While Benay reminded us that Canada (and the world) is...
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