Erik Birkeneder, Contributor

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Do Crowdsourced Predictions Show The Wisdom Of Humans?

Crowdsourcing is being used to predict COVID-19 related events and milestones. Given their surprising accuracy, how much legal and institutional resistance they will face?

How Algorithmic Empathy Will Improve Health Care

Health care providers have started using artificially intelligent chat bots to guide patients through intake processes and other functions normally performed by staff. A key challenge to their adoption is maintaining patient engagement with these softw…

Protecting Explainable AI Innovations In Health Care

How do you keep a new technology secret when it’s built on transparency? The challenges of—and creative legal solutions for—protecting Explainable AI.

Explainable AI In Health Care: Gaining Context Behind A Diagnosis

With advantages over black box AI, Explainable AI (XAI) is likely to be the dominant algorithm in health care.