AI Articles and Analysis about Security

As of now, numerous companies claim to assist security firms, the military, and consumers prevent crime and defend their buildings, homes, and personal belongings.

In May 2018, Bard College’s Center for the Study of the Drone released a report estimating that 910 “state and local police, sheriff, fire, and emergency services agencies” had acquired drones in the United States by the end of 2017.

This week on AI in Industry, we are talking about the ethical consequences of AI in business. If a system were to train itself to act in unethical or legally reprehensible ways, it could take actions such as filtering or making decisions about people in regards to race or gender.

Health insurance is a critical component of the healthcare industry with private health insurance expenditures alone estimated at $1.1 billion in 2016, according to the latest data available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This figure represents 34 percent of the 2016 National Health Expenditure at $3.3 trillion.  

Computer vision, an AI technology that allows computers to understand and label images, is now used in convenience stores, driverless car testing, daily medical diagnostics, and in monitoring the health of crops and livestock.

In 2015, fraud losses on credit, debit, and prepaid cards issued worldwide reached $21.84 billion, according to a Bloomberg report. By 2020, Bloomberg predicts that this could grow by a rate of 45 percent.

This article is based on a presentation at a joint United Nations / INTERPOL conference for law enforcement agencies held in Singapore entitled “Machine Learning and Machine Vision Cutting-Edge Trends and Implications in Law Enforcement” delivered by Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella.

We've noticed a lot of interest from our readers for our pieces dealing with AI applications in the finance and banking sectors. New applications for artificial intelligence often seem to develop by transferring an existing use-case in a related field, and this might be the case with AI applications for ATMs as well.