The AI Pulse
Issue #17 — 20th January 2025
Editor: Alan Brown
Welcome to the latest edition of The AI Pulse for Digital Leaders. An expertly curated collection of essential articles, commentaries, and news stories from reputable sources. Do you know anyone who might be interested in AI Pulse. Have some news or looking to partner? Just get in touch at: [email protected]
Highlights in this edition include:
AI for Good
MIT Professor Manish Raghavan discusses how research can help deliver algorithms and AI for a better world.
In the last of a six-part series, this BBC report looks at how AI can spot diseases that doctors aren't even looking for.
Bias and Ethics
An excellent review in IEEE Spectrum highlights how AI mistakes are very different than human mistakes and why we need new security systems designed to deal with their weirdness.
The Guardian reports that ministers are considering allowing private companies to make profits from NHS data as AI revolutionises the health service.
A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) offers 4 principles of responsible use of AI in medicine.
Cyber Security
The Register reports that a Microsoft red team probed the security of more than 100 of the software giant's own generative AI products and came away with a sobering message: The models amplify existing security risks and create new ones.
In the US, the Whitehouse has issued a new executive order on strengthening and promoting innovation in US cybersecurity.
Data & Decision Making
The Economist reports on new research that shows that training AI models might not need enormous data centres.
Innovation & Collaboration
According to UK Authority, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is planning to set up a new procurement framework for AI solutions in healthcare.
ComputerWeekly asks if AI rescue the public sector and deliver its long-promised digital transformation.
Productivity & Efficiency
The UK government issued an important 50-point “AI Opportunities Action Plan” to support leadership in AI. This has spurred a lot of comments, such as:
The Telegraph reports that Labour’s ambitious AI rollout has a fatal flaw – the public sector still uses fax machines!
Regulation and Compliance
UK Authority says that the UK Government needs to learn from its past mistakes in dealing with technology suppliers, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO).
The Center for Democracy and Technology has a useful new report that maps the spectrum of AI assessment approaches, from narrowest to broadest and from least to most independent, to identify which approaches best serve which goals.
Are UK ministers prepared to throw planning rules out the window to allow more massive datacenters to be built? The Registers reports that this is being seriously considered.
Sustainability
MIT News considers GenAI’s environmental impact, including increased electricity demand and water consumption.
User Experience
Workforce & Skills
As AI adoption grow, FEWeek reports on skills minister Jacqui Smith’s view of the steps being taken to futureproof the UK's workforce.
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