Artificial intelligence driven by Big Data could extraordinarily easily re-identify individuals

Gov: AI growth risks de-anonymising individuals in Big Data

A new report from the UK's Government Office For Science warns that the explosive growth in artificial intelligence, driven by Big Data, could mean that anonymised individuals in datasets might be extraordinarily easy to re-identify, due to the interlinking of vast, semi-supervised systems. In the report, entitled Research and analysis: Artificial intelligence: an overview for policy-makers, the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir Mark Walport warns that new developments and scaling of AI-driven frameworks permit the inference of private information from public (i.e.

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