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AI reflections in 2019

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There is no shortage of opinions on the impact of artificial intelligence and deep learning. We invited authors of Comment and Perspective articles that we published in roughly the first half of 2019 to look back at the year and give their thoughts on how the issue they wrote about developed.

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  1. Flatiron Health, New York, NY, USA

    Alexander S. Rich

  2. Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Cynthia Rudin

  3. Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK

    David M. P. Jacoby, Robin Freeman & Oliver R. Wearn

  4. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Henry Shevlin, Kanta Dihal, Seán S. ÓhÉigeartaigh & Stephen Cave

  5. United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, The Hague, the Netherlands

    James Butcher

  6. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Reggio, Emilia, Italy

    Marco Lippi

  7. Yale Law School, Center for Private Law, Information Society Project, New Haven, CT, USA

    Przemyslaw Palka

  8. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Torroni

  9. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Shannon Wongvibulsin

  10. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Edmon Begoli

  11. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Gisbert Schneider

  12. Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Mona Sloane

  13. Data and Society Research Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Emmanuel Moss

  14. Center for Humans and Machines, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

    Iyad Rahwan

  15. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Ken Goldberg

  16. CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

    David Howard

  17. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Luciano Floridi

  18. University College London, London, UK

    Jack Stilgoe

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Rich, A.S., Rudin, C., Jacoby, D.M.P. et al. AI reflections in 2019. Nat Mach Intell 2, 2–9 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0141-1

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