The AI Index Report
Earlier in March, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) release the 2021 AI Index report . The importance of ethical questions in relation to this technology is…
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Overview of Edge Surveillance Practices at Protests
In an interesting talk, Kurt Opsahl enumerates various commonly used surveillance practices deployed at protests and large gatherings . While this may not seem directly related to HPC,…
On Allocating Scarce Resources “Fairly”
Maybe there is a lesson to be learned for HPC from common practices in medicine. The lack of organs that can be transplanted creates several ethical dilemmas without…
Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 11/2020
With the release of the Nov 2020 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new entries…
The Compute Devide: The De-democratization of AI?
In a recent arXiv paper , analysis suggests that unequal access to computing capabilities may shift who and where AI is being innovated. […] we present systematic evidence…
GSA Data Ethics Framework Published
The US General Services Administration has published new rules about ethical data use.
Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 06/2020
With the release of the new Top500 list of Supercomputers it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers world wide.