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#116: Britain's Disabled Students' Allowance Escape Hatch Has Approved Nobody, WHO Africa's 47-Country Health Data Hub, MeteoSwiss Hands Thunderstorm Warnings to a Deep Learning Model
Impact Signals #116: Britain's Disabled Students' Allowance Escape Hatch Has Approved Nobody, WHO Africa's 47-Country Health Data Hub, MeteoSwiss Hands Thunderstorm Warnings to a Deep Learning Model The British Assistive Technology Association filed Freedom of Information requests on the exceptions route attached to Britain's plan to stop funding specialist assistive software, and found it has approved zero applications in sixteen months. In the same week, three governments put new AI in front of the public: the WHO Regional Office for Africa opened a Regional Health Data Hub shared by all 47…
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