China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
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How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Apple, Google, Microsoft and other giants are accelerating their efforts to remake health care with new tracking apps, sensors and other tools.
Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article Video || Medium (5-10 min)
The United States military is trying to come to terms with the fact that advanced technology is on the cusp of making it possible for machines like armed drones to make killing decisions.
Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.
Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Under what circumstances should militaries delegate the decision to take a human life to machines? It’s a moral leap that the international community is grappling with.
Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
This robot is at the centre of an experiment in France to change care for elderly patients.
Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.
Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, has voiced exasperation over the company's response to efforts to increase minority hiring.
There Is a Racial Divide in Speech-Recognition Systems, Researchers Say
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
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.