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Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants
Job hunters may now need to impress not just prospective bosses but artificial intelligence algorithms too—as employers screen candidates by…
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Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
On January 4, a group of workers at Google parent company Alphabet said they had formed a union to influence…
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A Startup Will Nix Algorithms Built on Ill-Gotten Facial Data
Late last year, San Francisco face-recognition startup Everalbum won a $2 million contract with the Air Force to provide “AI-driven…
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The Tweets That Got Trump Banned Were Far From His Worst
I always figured that if Donald Trump got banned from Twitter, it would be for one of two reasons. Either…
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A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard
Facebook might have run out the clock on Donald Trump’s posts—I predict a permanent ban at some point—but the episode…
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New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act barred the humans who made hiring decisions from discriminating on the basis of sex…
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Even Mark Zuckerberg Has Had Enough of Trump
We finally know what it takes for Donald Trump to get suspended from social media. As of Thursday morning, following…
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The US Needs More Foreign Artificial Intelligence Know-How
During President Obama’s two terms in the White House, Jason Furman was a top economic policy adviser and a key…
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One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack – January 2021
CPJ’s Impunity Index has shown that, in eight out of 10 cases, the killers of journalists go free. On August…
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In India, Smartphones and Cheap Data Are Giving Women a Voice
Ravi Agarwal, author of the 2018 book India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy says that…
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