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|| Future of Work || Blog Post || Medium (5-10 min)
This article summarizes the worries from the findings of multiple studies around the impact of tech on future of work, and discusses how these changes might impact politics as the number of jobs being taken over increases.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
How tech and appliance makers are targeting the kitchen with smart home devices in order to deepen ties with customers.
|| Misinformation || Video || Medium (5-10 min)
Much of the world uses Google Maps as their primary geographic reference tool. But what happens when multiple nations claim ownership of a disputed territory?
|| Algorithmic Bias || Report || Short (5 min or less)
This paper seeks to study how computerized decision-making techniques compare to one another, and what accounts for the differences.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Commercial software is nearly flawless at telling the gender of white men, a study says, but not so for darker-skinned women.
|| Future of Work || Data Table Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A chart of study predictions about job creation/loss as a result of automation, including when the study was performed, by who, the scale of the study, and predictions.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
SamSam Ransomware group targets hospitals, a city council group, and an industrial control system firm in the beginning of 2018. The article provides brief details on the scam.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
Article warning about bias and how it can appear. Includes some illustrative examples, and information based on academic research on “algorithmic bias.”
|| 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.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook among others were found to be limiting job ads to limited age groups.
|| Health and Medical Applications Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
While health websites can help people identify and understand their medical condition and offer emotional support, it can also lead to unnecessary anxiety and be riddled with "fake news".
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article Video || Short (5 min or less)
The seven minute video features a dramatic story about tiny drones that are programmed to kill and require no human guidance. In the fictitious story, the technology was developed for good, but is taken over by unknown forces that launch mass killings.
|| Robotics Applications || Video || Medium (5-10 min)
Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
A case involving a biased computer program designed to assign sentences.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A discussion about the outlook of what misinformation might look like in the coming decade.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A series of costly delays and crucial errors caused Equifax to remain unprotected for months against one of the most severe Web application vulnerabilities in years, the former CEO for the credit reporting service said in written testimony investigating the massive breach that
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.
|| Internet/Privacy || Video || Long (10+ min)
A techno-sociologist discusses "persuasion architecture", or how AI can be used to conrol people's actions, as well as what might be done in response.