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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Textract (Amazon)

Amazon is making widely available a text and data extraction tool that is going to make it real easy to search all kinds of information. My whole time reading this release all I could think about was how hard it is to search your own posts on Twitter. There’s no excuses now, Jack Dorsey.

Conference on Social Protection by Artificial Intelligence: Decoding Human Rights in a Digital Age (Freedom to Tinker)

The incorporation of artificial intelligence in welfare programs comes with a range of risks. The last section of this piece is critical, taking a human centered design approach with a focus on those most at the mercy of artificial intelligence technology operating portions of welfare programs. That kind of approach would be helpful in avoiding unintended consequences over the course of developing AI tools for these populations.

Niti Aayog plans index to rank states on artificial intelligence adoption (Economic Times)

An index rating the readiness of states across India to adopt artificial intelligence technologies will be very interesting to read. Considering the U.S. has states still struggling with voting machine technology, this sort of index would be very eye-opening for policy makers in this country.