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AI’s Growing Role in Finance Brings Opportunity and Risk, House Panel Finds
artificial intelligence // July 18, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionize finance and housing, bringing both game-changing benefits and thorny new risks that demand vigilant oversight, a bipartisan House panel has concluded. The House Financial Services Committee’s AI Working Group, established in January by Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., and...

The Conundrum Of Mixing Tech With Humans In SMB Finance
B2B Payments // March 16, 2020

The digitization and automation of small business lending has led to some undeniable benefits for entrepreneurs today. Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can gain from faster application times and the convenience of no longer having to visit a physical bank branch with loads of paperwork...

Mastercard On Overcoming AI’s Bias Problem
Mastercard // December 19, 2019

Savor this moment — these coming weeks, the next few months, the year or two that will follow. These are the last moments before artificial intelligence (AI) really starts to have a massive impact on one’s daily life, before the world really turns to AI....

Visa’s McSherry On Responsible AI
Artificial Intelligence // June 14, 2019

An AI-driven model offers users great power when it comes to handling data, making sense of seemingly far-flung information.  But there also is great responsibility on the part of those who build and use those models.  Visa's Melissa McSherry, global head of credit and data...

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Visa’s McSherry On Responsible AI

June 14, 2019
An AI-driven model offers users great power when it comes to handling data, making sense of seemingly far-flung information.  But there also is great responsibility on the part of those who build and use those models.  Visa's Melissa McSherry, global head of credit and data products, tells Karen Webster about the most vital considerations of AI practitioners. First, do no harm.

Quick Reads
Federal Agencies Aim to Combat Algorithmic Bias in AI

October 11, 2024
Auditing has a role in preventing, investigating, monitoring and remedying algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence (AI), technologists and researchers from federal agency civil rights offices said during a meeting held Wednesday (Oct. 9). The meeting was convened by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to promote the coordination of AI and civil rights, the department said in […]