Trusting Artificial Intelligence

Europe Calling

Knowing where a crime is going to be committed before it happens is the dream of police departments all over the world, and data scientists and artificial intelligence experts want to make it a reality. Many law enforcement agencies, especially in the US where gun violence is rampant, have been using pattern- detecting information systems to predict crime hotspots. Firefighters in France and Spain have struggled to contain wildfires raging out of control across Europe, as it continues to wilt under record temperatures that have reportedly killed more than a thousand people. Spain is to hit energy firms and banks with temporary windfall taxes that should rake in 7 billion euros during 2023-2024, in order to cover the cost of measures put in place to help Spaniards grapple with soaring inflation, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday during a ‘state of the nation’ speech in Congress. THE UK press reports labour shortages across nearly every industry yet graduates can’t find jobs. Something doesn’t add up. Are graduates setting their expectations too high or not trying hard enough? Or basically getting degrees in ‘useless’ subjects? A degree in sports/media studies is no preparation for the world of work. Today’s world needs people with ‘useful’ skills; lucrative jobs abound in the engineering sector. Spain should compensate a woman who was forced to undergo a caesarean (C- section) without her consent and with her arms strapped down, a United Nations committee ruled on Thursday. The committee also said that the procedure was carried out without the woman’s husband present and that she was not allowed to immediately hold her newborn boy since she was still strapped down. The woman was ‘a victim of obstetric violence, a particular type of violence against women … which has been shown to be widespread, systematic in nature and ingrained in health system’, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) said.