Day archives: January 31st, 2025

AI in Finance and Banking, January 31, 2025

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape industries worldwide, its role in banking has quietly evolved behind the scene; Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market; Governance of AI adoption in central bank; AI will have a major impact on labor markets. Here’s how the US can prepare; and How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Asia’s Economies.

Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human live. To better understand the scope, ramifications and potential solutions of this metastasizing assault on science, Frederik Joelving, contributing editor at Retraction Watch, a website that reports on retractions of scientific papers and related topics, and two computer scientists at France’s Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, and Cyril Labbé , and Guillaume Cabanac, Université Grenoble Alpes who specialize in detecting bogus publications – spent six months investigating paper mills.

Subjects: Education, Health, Healthcare, KM, Medical Research, Technology Trends