• In 2020, and for the first time, China surpassed the United States in the share of AI journal citations in the world, having briefly overtaken the United States in the overall number of AI journal publications in 2004 and then retaken the lead in 2017. [...] • The five news topics that got the most attention in 2020 related to the ethical use of AI were the release of the European Commission’s white paper on AI, Google’s dismissal of ethics researcher Timnit Gebru, the AI ethics committee formed by the United Nations, the Vatican’s AI ethics plan, and IBM’s exiting the facial-recognition businesses. [...] • I n 2020, and for the first time, China surpassed the United States in the share of AI journal citations in the world, having briefly overtaken the United States in the overall number of AI journal publications in 2004 and then retaken the lead in 2017. [...] Due to changes in the methodology for Among the total number of peer-reviewed AI publications indexing publications, the accuracy of the dataset increased in the world, East Asia & Pacific has held the largest share from 80% to 84% (see the Appendix for more details). [...] 5 For the AAMAS conference, the attendance in 2020 is based on the number of users on site reported by the platform that recorded the talks and managed the online conference; For the KR conference, the attendance in 2020 is based on the number of registrations; For the ICPAS conference, the attendance of 450 in 2020 is an estimate as some participants may have used anonymous Zoom accounts.
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