Jennifer L. Schenker has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek.
After leaving BusinessWeek Schenker founded Informilo, a U.K.-based media company that operates a website and publishes print magazines about the global tech sector. Under Jennifer’s leadership Informilo published 42 print magazines in 14 countries, launched a corporate subscription business and organized more than a dozen networking events in Western Europe and Russia.
Jennifer sold her shares in Informilo in April 2016 and is currently planning the launch of a new publication about the digital transformation of business called The Innovator.
Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 16 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.
What Hello Barbie said to Alexa and Siri
Talk, talk, talk. Not only are our devices talking back, but using AI and cloud-based systems, they remember, record, transcribe and even email. And they are doing that as much with children as with adults. Animated and “cognitized” objects are increasingly entering our homes. When combined with personal assistants such as Echo and Siri, interactions, inquisitiveness and simple play are being transformed. What are the safety, security and privacy issues? And what will all this digital stimulation do to our brains and the development of our children?
In Pursuit of the Ethical AI
Given the inevitable, growing impact of AI on all aspects of society, how do we facilitate responsible AI? How do we even define it?
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
