🤖 Trusting AI Recommendations / Scaling an AI company / AI & Lending

As they embark on their scaling journey, AI-first startups face many challenges. Increasing awareness around best practices is the first step in addressing them.

The social media company teams up with Carnegie Mellon University on a massive dataset of chemical reactions in a quest for more efficient catalysts.

Without government intervention or accelerated evolution of negligence law, people hurt by AI may have little or no redress, according to a recent analysis.

Jenny Vipperman, the chief lending officer at VyStar Credit Union, among the largest U.S. credit unions, wanted to lend more money to minorities and other disadvantaged groups that historically have struggled to obtain credit. But finding a way to lend more inclusively without taking on potentially dangerous amounts of risk was difficult using standard credit scoring and the tried-and-true lending rules of thumb that VyStar had been relying on.

Austin, former managing partner of Deloitte’s Omnia AI business, is now chief executive of Arteria AI, which was known as dtrax at the Canadian professional-services giant