|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A growing number of real-world researchers and companies are developing tools designed for exactly this task. And, despite what you might initially fear, the results are really promising.
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A series of studies at Cornell investigate how humans behave in the company of robots. The article highlights its findings.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
In this Q&A with former Facebook employee Kaya Thomas, she discusses what it’s been like to work as a Black woman in tech in her internships and what top companies should be doing to attract minority candidates like her.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Following a dispute over several emails and a research paper on Wednesday, AI ethics pioneer and research scientist Timnit Gebru no longer works at Google.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against them.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Timnit Gebru says a manager asked her to either retract or remove her name from a research paper she had coauthored, because an internal review had found the contents objectionable. The contents were about bias in AI.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
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.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
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
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
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.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley found that risk assessment tools, driven by algorithms, can provide accurate support for the decision process.