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RE:WIRED 2021: Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Kai-Fu Lee and Yoky Matsuoka Imagine AI’s Potential for Good
When we think of artificial intelligence, many of us jump to visions of the future from science fiction—hellscapes like The…
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Facebook Drops Facial Recognition to Tag People in Photos
Raji said it’s always good when companies take public steps to signal that technology is dangerous but cautioned that people…
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This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes
Delphi taps the fruits of recent advances in AI and language. Feeding very large amounts of text to algorithms that…
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Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close
Facebook launched support for Arabic in 2009 and scored a hit. Soon after, the service won plaudits for helping the…
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I Used Facebook Without the Algorithm, and You Can Too
Facebook is broken, says whistleblower Frances Haugen, who worked on the company’s civic integrity team. In testimony before Congress and…
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A New Formula May Help Black Patients’ Access to Kidney Care
For decades doctors and hospitals saw kidney patients differently based on their race. A standard equation for estimating kidney function…
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It’s Time to Talk About Facebook Research
Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the…
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Now That Machines Can Learn, Can They Unlearn?Â
Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a…
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Twitter’s Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females
In May, Twitter said that it would stop using an artificial intelligence algorithm found to favor white and female faces…
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