El borrador de la ley europea sobre inteligencia artificial establece nuevos requisitos para las soluciones tecnológicas que hagan uso de la inteligencia artificial en casi todos sus ámbitos de aplicación. En este análisis desgranamos las implicaciones para aquellas soluciones destinadas a optimizar procesos de gestión urbana. El pasado mes de…

Background The keys to the European Union’s new regulation on Artificial Intelligence are to ensure traceability and responsibilities in the development of systems that make use of AI; to guarantee their transparency; and to ensure that they do not amplify or perpetuate biases in order to avoid discrimination of citizens subjected…

Context Since the deployment of the internet in the mid 1990’s, but even more rapidly since the development and quick widespread use of smartphones more than 10 years ago, many of the interactions that previously happened in a physical context moved to the digital realm. The expansion and use of all…

I received that question via quora (Spanish version) a couple of days ago, and I’ve thought that it is a good matter of debate. In few words, yes, I think it’s feasible, but not in the way many people think of a robot: anthropomorphic, individual, like those we’ve seen in…

“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst” * *The Tragedy of Gorbuduc, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville (1561) When studying corporate strategy, an extensively used tool is the SWAT matrix, an exercise in which two families of elements are identified: · Internal: Strengths and Weaknesses · External…

In a previous article I highlighted how, due to the progressive pervasion of automated decision taking systems, concerns are arising about the fairness of those AI-based systems’ outcomes (as if human decisions were formerly perfectly objective and free of biases :-). Data scientist face two big issues when developing algorithms…

Throughout the last years I have talked with many public servants about how data can effectively be transformed into value by public administrations. If there are opportunities in the use of data, why are governments lagging behind private corporations in this race? the quick answer is that they aren’t: the…

Ethic dilemmas on fairness affect everyone: from individuals to corporations and governments. Where are the limits between fair discriminant decisions for the sake of free market, and illegal discriminative ones? are they clear or subtle? At the end, nobody should be treated differently due to a feature that that he…

During their digitalization processes corporations transit through different stages according to their analytic maturity, which is to say, their capability to transform data into convenience for their customers and employees, and value for their shareholders. …