Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her. The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues.
More than a dozen companies offer artificial-intelligence programs that promise to identify a person’s race, but researchers and even some vendors worry it will fuel discrimination
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
The article argues that are living in a world that has been designed for men because for the most part, we haven’t been collecting data on women. It highlights why this is and why it is problematic.
Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley found that risk assessment tools, driven by algorithms, can provide accurate support for the decision process.
Black patients were less likely than white patients to get extra medical help, despite being sicker, when an algorithm used by a large hospital chose who got the additional attention, according to a new study underscoring the risks as technology gains a foothold in medicine.
The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.
The study highlights that the strongest driver of gender diversity within rising startups is more women.
A study finds that teams with at least one female founder tend to raise more capital from investors.
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.