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Voices - Engineers are unprepared to handle ethical considerations of AI - April 19 (UPI) -- As artificial intelligence and machine learning tools become more integrated into daily life, ethical considerations are growing, from privacy issues and race and gender biases in coding to the spread of misinformation.
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