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Sustainability and impact: The role of technology

April 28, 2020

Over recent years, the importance of sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and the impact that companies have on the environment, individuals, and local and global communities has risen up the corporate agenda.

EU’s High-Level Expert Group on AI publishes Artificial Intelligence Ethics Guidelines

April 11, 2019

The Guidelines are the first deliverable under the European Union (EU’s) April 2018 Communication on Artificial Intelligence for Europe.

European Patent Office provides guidance on AI patentability

November 13, 2018

The European Patent Office (EPO) recently issued guidance on the patenting of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. What does this mean for businesses in the field?

The Database Directive, AI and the data economy

September 03, 2018

Does the Database Directive protect machine-generated data and AI?  That is one of the questions the European Commission considered in its recently published second evaluation of the Database Directive.

Artificial Intelligence and the future of work

June 20, 2018

AI’s impact on the workplace is contingent on many variables - the level of employees’ education and training, the cost of the technology, its adoption rate, regulation, ethics and how far AI creates new jobs.

How can AI apply to agriculture?

June 13, 2018

AI tools are being used to improve the entire food supply chain. This will become even more important as the world’s growing population creates an increasing demand for agricultural production.