The following is a list of events of the year 2018 in artificial intelligence.

Events

March 18 March – A self-driving Uber test vehicle strikes and kills pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, the first recorded pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. Uber suspends its self-driving car testing nationwide.

April 25 April – The European Commission publishes its "Artificial Intelligence for Europe" communication, outlining a European strategy on AI investment, socio-economic adaptation, and ethical and legal frameworks.

May 8 May – Google unveils Duplex, an AI system capable of making phone calls and holding humanlike conversations to book appointments, at Google I/O.

June 7 June – Google publishes a set of AI principles ruling out the development of weapons and mass-surveillance technologies, following employee protests over Project Maven.

August 23 August – OpenAI Five, a team of AI agents, loses two exhibition matches against professional human players at Dota 2s The International tournament.

December 3 December – DeepMind's AlphaFold wins the 13th CASP protein structure prediction competition, marking a major advance in computational biology.

See also Timeline of artificial intelligence

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