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AI for the world, or just the West? How researchers are tackling Big Tech's global gaps

Western companies' one-size-fits-all AI strategies don't serve many of the world's populations. These African researchers are working to change that.

Using space data to restore nature: four SME projects showcase their plans before Sussex investors

An AI-powered app helping children speak to endangered animals; a tool to use nature to fight climate change; a way to measure forest health; and a method to make decisions to build healthy communities - these four projects are using space data to help nature.

2025 Call for Code Engages Developers to Build AI Solutions that Address Social and Humanitarian Issues

Call for Code Creator David Clark Cause, Founding Partner IBM (NYSE: IBM), Global Impact Partner United Nations Human Rights, and Program Affiliate the Linux Foundation invite developers and problem solvers to participate in the 2025 Call for Code program to create projects and solutions that use AI to help tackle United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The WEIRD AI divide: Why some nations trust AI while others don't

A key insight from the study is that the presence of AI regulations appears to influence perceptions differently in WEIRD and non-WEIRD societies. In countries with strong data privacy laws, such as those in the European Union,

The role of data revolution in rare disease research

The arrival of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and shared databases, offers unparallelled potential for advancing the study and treatment of rare diseases

Awesome Production Machine Learning

This repository contains a curated list of awesome open source libraries that will help you deploy, monitor, version, scale, and secure your production machine learning 🚀 You can keep up to date by watching this github repo to get a summary of the new ...

Can artificial intelligence save the Great Barrier Reef?

Researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming.

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A wealth of evidence: Machine learning approach leads to a 'living systematic map' of climate policy research

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating, a good quarter are from 2020 or later.