Artificial intelligence: Europeans poorly protected (faced with the potential errors of AI)
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Artificial intelligence.
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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow
23 mins
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence?
The European Fundamental Rights Agency warns of the urgent need to protect Europeans.
Because these applications, if they are a growth driver, can also be a source of errors and discrimination.
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41% of European companies use AI
Voice assistants, facial recognition systems, autonomous cars, artificial intelligence is everywhere today.
Nearly one in two businesses in Europe uses this technology, which allows machines to scan their environment instead of executing simple human-dictated instructions.
We take a look back at the many questions raised by the use of artificial intelligence, with a report from our correspondent in Vienna,
Céline Beal.
Medicine and artificial intelligence
And with the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of artificial intelligence has accelerated further.
It is in the medical sector that these technologies are developing the fastest.
In France, in Valenciennes, in the North, it's been a year since the city hospital has been experimenting with software capable of predicting the number of patients expected each day in the emergency room.
The goal: to enable doctors to anticipate needs,
Lise Verbeke.
The Baltic States, specialists in artificial intelligence
In Europe, the Czech Republic occupies the first place in terms of the use of artificial intelligence, 61% of these companies use these electronic brains.
But Bulgaria and Lithuania, with more than one in two companies, are also among the leading pack.
Here too, the fight against Covid has given a boost to the use of new technologies, without any reflection being carried out on the risks to privacy that this strategy entails.
Example, with two small countries, Latvia and Lithuania, with our correspondent in the Baltic countries,
Marielle Vitureau
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When gamers meet environmental activists
It is about two universes a priori foreign to each other: the protection of nature and the scene of "gamers", fans of online video games.
And yet in Germany, the two have decided to join forces for a good cause: the preservation of the forests of our planet.
A way to reach a whole different audience,
Julien Mechaussie
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Julian Assange still behind bars
The founder of Wikileaks will not ultimately be extradited to the United States where he is being prosecuted for espionage.
A victory after a long legal battle, but the British justice refused on the other hand his request for release on bail.
Julian Assange is therefore still being held in a high security prison in east London.
This is our European of the week, signed
Béatrice Leveillé
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Program originally aired on January 12, 2021.
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