Sarah O'Connor

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Sarah O'Connor

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One of my first jobs as a trainee reporter was to write a daily stock market report. It was the sort of task that wouldn’t trouble an experienced journalist, but for a novice like me, it was scary and hard. I was lucky, though: after I filed my draft, my editor would have me stand behind his shoulder and watch his screen while he edited it.

2 months ago | straitstimes.com | Sarah O'Connor

University students have taken to artificial intelligence in the same way that an anxious new driver with a crumpled road map might take to satnav – that is to say, hungrily and understandably. A survey of undergraduates in Britain by the Higher Education Policy Institute think-tank shows 92 per cent of them are using generative AI in some form in 2025, compared with 66 per cent in 2024, while 88 per cent have used it in assessments, up from 53 per cent last year.

2 months ago | channelnewsasia.com | Sarah O'Connor

LONDON: University students have taken to artificial intelligence (AI) in the same way that an anxious new driver with a crumpled road map might take to satnav – that is to say, hungrily and understandably. A survey of UK undergraduates by the Higher Education Policy Institute think-tank shows 92 per cent of them are using generative AI in some form this year compared with 66 per cent last year, while 88 per cent have used it in assessments, up from 53 per cent last year.

Feb 6, 2025 | irishtimes.com | Sarah O'Connor

What does it mean for a machine’s decision to be “fair”? So far, the public debate has focused mostly on the issue of bias and discrimination. That is understandable: most people would expect machines to be less biased than humans (indeed, this is often given as the rationale for using them in processes such as recruitment), so it is right to pay attention to evidence that they can be biased, too. But the word “fair” has a lot of interpretations, and “unbiased” is only one of them.

Jan 15, 2025 | channelnewsasia.com | Sarah O'Connor

LONDON: I think there is an unwritten law that every article or policy discussion about the ageing population must begin with some scary statistics to frame the debate. So here are a few from the United Nations. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population who are more than 60 years old will nearly double from 12 per cent to 22 per cent.