Data Sciences
Better control of development aid through AI
Research
ETH Zurich
A research team from ETH Zurich and LMU Munich is using artificial intelligence to analyse 3.2 million development aid projects worldwide. Their research reveals trends and funding gaps.  
“The West now realizes it has taken some things for granted”
Politics
EPFL
Yves Daccord, who served as the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2010 to 2020, has just joined EPFL’s EssentialTech Centre as a senior advisor. In this interview, he explains how he will draw on his knowledge and contacts to help the Centre set ambitious objectives as it enters its second decade.
Girl Power: Can we Break the Bias in Al and Beyond?
Research
EPFL
We all know the story. It gets rolled out every March when women and men around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. Human biases are well documented, from the implicit to the explicit and they have always existed but as algorithms and big data increasingly run our lives these biases become embedded in everything.
When it comes to forecasts, politics fails more often than science
Politics
ETH Zurich
Politicians and the media struggle with predictions. This is more a problem resulting from a poor understanding of uncertainties than from the reliability of models, argues Reto Knutti.
How human and artificial intelligence can augment one another
Research
ETH Zurich
Mennatallah El-Assady develops explainable AI programs that explain their own workings – and let users provide input. This can help analysts take a deep dive into political debate.  
Artificial intelligence listens to the sound of healthy machines
Research
ETH Zurich
Sounds provide important information about how well a machine is running. ETH researchers have now developed a new machine learning method that automatically detects whether a machine is "healthy" or requires maintenance.
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