Latest Artificial Intelligence Headlines

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Agency E&O Webinar: Panelists Discuss Changing Exposures, AI & More

Dec 13 2023 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. Insurance Journal gathered three experts to...

Meta Used Copyrighted Books for AI Training Despite Lawyers’ Warnings, Say Authors

Dec 13 2023 // Meta Platforms’ lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit...

Tech Update: Hiscox London Mkt, Google Collaborate to Boost Underwriting With AI

Dec 12 2023 // Hiscox, the specialist global insurer, has collaborated with Google Cloud to create the first AI-enhanced lead underwriting model in the London market insurance industry.The collaboration combines Hiscox London...

Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI

Dec 11 2023 // Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology.As part of negotiations with the...

European Union Agrees Landmark Deal Governing Use of Artificial Intelligence

Dec 11 2023 // Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments’ use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate AI systems such...

UK Data Protection Watchdog Warns Companies Over AI Use and Privacy

Dec 7 2023 // Britain’s data protection watchdog warned companies to consider people’s privacy rights whenever they use artificial intelligence (AI) or face not just fines but losing the public’s trust in the...

London’s Insurance, Finance Workers to See Biggest AI Impact: UK Report

Nov 29 2023 // Management consultants and City of London finance workers are among those most exposed to workplace changes ushered in by artificial intelligence, a new UK government report found, urging changes in schools and training...

US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement to Make AI ‘Secure by Design’

Nov 28 2023 // The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue...

Artificial Intelligence Not Main Cause of Recent Insurance Layoffs: AM Best

Nov 15 2023 // AM Best does not believe artificial intelligence is the main cause of recent insurance industry layoffs.In commentary released today, the credit rating agency wrote that “it is too soon to cite AI as the leading...

Putting AI to Work Within the ‘Digital Round Trip’: Applied Systems CEO

Nov 15 2023 // The data is out there. The challenge is how to amass it, standardize it and make it useful.Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Applied Systems, stopped by the On Point podcast with host Peter Aartrijk to talk about the future of data...

Alibaba’s Ant Receives Chinese Government Nod to Roll Out AI Services

Nov 7 2023 // Ant Group Co., the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., received approval from the Chinese government to roll out products powered by its large language model Bailing to the public.Bailing will be applied to...

Threat of Haywire Artificial Intelligence Prompts Calls for Development Pause, AXA Says

Oct 31 2023 // Governments are ill-prepared for the hazards brought on by artificial intelligence and development should be paused, according to a new survey of risk specialists by insurance company AXA SA.Only 7% of almost 3,500 risk...

Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order Regulating Artificial Intelligence

Oct 30 2023 // President Joe Biden is directing the US government to take a sweeping approach to artificial intelligence regulation, his most significant action yet to rein in an emerging technology that has sparked both concern and...

Governments and Firms Should Spend More on AI Safety, Say Top Researchers

Oct 24 2023 // Artificial intelligence companies and governments should allocate at least one third of their AI research and development funding to ensuring the safety and ethical use of the systems, top AI researchers said in a paper on...

Music Publishers File Suit in Tennessee Against AI Company Over Song Lyrics

Oct 20 2023 // Oct 18 (Reuters) – Music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court this week, accusing it of misusing an...

Artificial Intelligence Startup Helps Insurers Spot Cognitive Decline in Older Drivers

Oct 17 2023 // Mind Foundry Ltd., an artificial intelligence startup vying to help insurers decide which drivers should be covered, has raised $22 million in funding, the latest sign of growing demand to deploy AI in critical sectors...

Xceedance Launches Center of Excellence for Generative AI, Empowering Insurance Transformation

Oct 16 2023 // BOSTON, MA, October, 16, 2023 – Xceedance, a leading global provider of strategic operations support, technology, and data services for insurance organizations, announced the establishment of a Center of Excellence...

Google to Defend Generative AI Users From Copyright Claims

Oct 13 2023 // Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms if they are accused of intellectual property violations, joining Microsoft, Adobe...

National Security Agency Is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security Center

Oct 5 2023 // The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center – a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into U.S. defense and intelligence systems,...

Microsoft CEO Says Tech Giants Battling for Content to Build AI

Oct 3 2023 // Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Monday tech giants were competing for vast troves of content needed to train artificial intelligence, and complained Google was locking up content with expensive and exclusive...