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Richard Benjamins

El Dr. Richard Benjamins es chief AI & data strategist en Telefónica. Durante su carrera profesional ha trabajado en el mundo académico, en distintas start-ups y en corporaciones multinacionales. Ha sido Chief Data Officer de AXA. Su pasión es crear valor a partir de los datos. Ha sido el fundador del área de Big Data for Social Good de Telefónica. Es cofundador y vicepresidente del Observatorio del Impacto Social y Ético de la Inteligencia Artificial, OdiseIA, y es miembro del grupo de expertos de la Comisión Europea sobre la compartición de datos entre empresas y gobiernos para el interés público. Es doctor en Ciencias Cognitivas por la Universidad de Ámsterdam y ha publicado más de 100 artículos científicos.

Richard Benjamins

The RAE launches LEIA with Telefónica, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook

Last Friday, Chema Alonso and I had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the 16th Congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE) in Seville organised...

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Artificial Intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises

We hear of increasingly more applications of Artificial Intelligence ranging from improved medical diagnosis to autonomous vehicles to automatic translation to voice recognition. But when we look at the...

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Is your AI system discriminating without knowing it?: The paradox between fairness and privacy

This post assumes that readers are aware of the good things that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring to our businesses, societies and lives. And also about the most evident challenges that...

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Artificial Intelligence for warfare or for maintaining peace

On July 3, 2019, I attended an event organized by the Spanish Center for National Defense Studies (CESEDEN) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) on the impact of AI...

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London AI Summit 2019

The London AI Summit attracted thousands of visitors; so many more than when AI was still a niche thing in the 90-ies. As always with such big events, it was a...

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Towards a new Big Data ecosystem to mitigate Climate Change

Big Data can be used to help fight Climate Change [1],[2],[3]. Several projects have analysed huge amounts of satellite, weather and climate data to come up with ways to...

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How to measure your data maturity?

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become very popular these days, and many organizations have started their data journey to become more data-driven and take automated, intelligent decisions....

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Artificial Intelligence – Five Fears Explained

While there are many great applications of Artificial Intelligence, a disproportionate amount of attention is given to concerns about AI such as robots taking over control, losing our jobs, malicious...

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How to fund your data journey

As of 2018, most large multinationals have started their journey to become a more data-driven organization, usually as part of their digital transformation. For most of them, it is...

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How to select AI and Big Data use cases?

Many organizations that start working with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) ask themselves the question: where to start? In general, there are two ways to start: 1) start...