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Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
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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.
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Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley found that risk assessment tools, driven by algorithms, can provide accurate support for the decision process.
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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.
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The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.
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The study highlights that the strongest driver of gender diversity within rising startups is more women.
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A study finds that teams with at least one female founder tend to raise more capital from investors.
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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.
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Google has funded a facial recognition project that’s targeting people of color with dubious tactics, hiring temps go out to collect face scans from a variety of people on the street using $5 gift cards as incentive.
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The potential inaccuracies have broad implications for the growing body of scientific research that relies on these wearables, and it begs asking and whether implicit prejudices are shaping their development.