Artificial intelligence across company borders

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a valued technology in many companies. At the same time, a substantial potential for utilizing AI \emph{across} company borders has remained largely untapped. An inhibiting factor concerns disclosure of data to external parties, which raises legitimate concerns about intellectual property rights, privacy issues, and cybersecurity risks. Combining federated learning with domain adaptation can provide a solution to this problem by enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure. In this Viewpoint, we discuss the use, value, and implications of this approach in a cross-company setting.